Josef Federman

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A Palestinian holds a Molotov cocktail during clashes with Israeli border police in Jerusalem on Wednesday, July 2, 2014. The suspected abduction of an Arab teen followed by the discovery of a body in Jerusalem on Wednesday ignited clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians, who saw it as a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinians say Israeli extremists killed teen

Josef Federman · July 3, 2014 12:45 am

Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, parents of U.S.-Israeli national Naftali, 16, one of the three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the West Bank, mourn as they sit next to Israeli President Shimon Peres during their son'ss joint funeral in the Israeli city of Modiin, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of mourners converged Tuesday in central Israel for the funeral service for three teenagers found dead in the West Bank after a two week search and crackdown on the Hamas militant group, which Israeli leaders have accused of abducting and killing the young men. The deaths of Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, have prompted angry calls for revenge and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security Cabinet for an emergency meeting to discuss a response to the killings, hours after airstrikes targeted dozens of suspected Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

As Israel buries teens, new threats against Hamas

Josef Federman · July 1, 2014 9:43 pm

Palestinian Asmaa Abu El-Heija holds pictures of two of her sons as she cleans up her home after a raid by Israeli troops as the army continues feverish searches for three missing Israeli teens, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, Monday, June 23, 2014. El-Heija, who was imprisoned in Israeli jail, has a husband and three sons currently being held, while a fourth son, Hamza, who was a member of the Hamas military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was killed a few months ago by Israeli troops. Israel has arrested more than 350 Palestinians, most affiliated with the Islamic militant Hamas, and raided some 1,600 locations in their search for the three teens. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Israel nabs suspects in Passover shooting

Josef Federman · June 23, 2014 6:28 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

Josef Federman · June 23, 2014 6:14 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Netanyahu has condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' agreement with the militant group, and said he would hold him responsible for the safety of the youths, who disappeared apparently while hitchhiking in the West Bank late Thursday. (AP Photos/Dan Balilty)

Israel premier says Hamas kidnapped missing teens

Josef Federman · June 15, 2014 11:51 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on Sunday, June 8 2014. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)

National Security

Israeli finance minister calls settlements a waste

Josef Federman · June 8, 2014 7:27 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 10, 2010 file photo, Israelis walk on a street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo. Israel's housing ministry said Thursday, June 5, 2014 it was advancing plans for nearly 1,500 new settlement housing units in the West Bank and east Jerusalem in response to the new Palestinian unity government backed by the Islamic militant group Hamas. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Israel approves new settlement construction

Josef Federman · June 5, 2014 6:39 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)

National Security

Netanyahu tells AP he is ‘troubled’ by US decision

Josef Federman · June 3, 2014 4:34 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)

Israel PM wants Palestinian government isolated

Josef Federman · June 1, 2014 5:56 pm

In this Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo, workers climb stairs at the Sorek desalination plant in Rishon Letzion, Israel. Israel's aggressive desalination program that has transformed this perennially parched country into perhaps the most well-hydrated country in the region. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israel solves water woes with desalination

Josef Federman · May 30, 2014 5:33 am

Massachusetts governor cultivates ties with Israel

Josef Federman · May 28, 2014 4:36 pm

Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Tel Aviv District Court in Israel, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Olmert was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for his role in wide-ranging bribery case, capping a stunning fall from grace for one of the most powerful men in the country. (AP Photo/Finbarr O'Reilly, Pool)

Israel’s Olmert gets 6-year sentence in bribe case

Josef Federman · May 13, 2014 4:21 pm