Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov invited Qatar-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to visit Moscow soon for further discussions on the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
President Barack Obama will meet with American Jewish leaders for the first time since signing an agreement with Iran last month on its nuclear programs.
Tel Avivans will soon be facing the same challenges Jerusalemites have dealt with for more than a decade, with Sunday evening marking the start of construction for a light rail system in Israel's largest city.
Despite the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, it's been blamed for decades for much of the trouble in the region.
A high pressure system, called a "heat dome," hovering over much of the Middle East has made extremely high temperatures even harder to endure.
In the wake of last week's arson attack by Jewish extremists, which killed an Arab toddler and critically injured his brother and parents, Israel reinstated administrative detention.
More than 300,000 Americans die of lung disease each year, making it the nation's third-leading killer. Now, however, there's new hope for the people who desperately need lung transplants, based on a biological fluke.
An intense summer heat wave has a lot of Israelis staying inside as much as possible.
Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes targeted two sites in Syria, one close to the Lebanese border, according to Arab media.
Israeli forces are on high alert Friday after Hamas called for a day of fury to avenge an arson attack in an Arab village that killed a toddler and injured four others, two critically.