Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with US Professors Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt.

Incumbent Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev is widely expected to win the presidential election in the country on Tuesday for a third term.

Two American Jews and a German won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, The New York Jewish Press reported, while one the two Nobel Prize in physics, awarded on Tuesday, is also Jewish.

Israel’s President Shimon Peres has called on the Council of Europe to reconsider a resolution condemning male ritual circumcision.

Police say nearly 1 million mourners converge on city to mourn loss of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yosef; police send hundreds of officers to maintain control ; 200 treated for minor injuries, 8 hospitalized.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who as the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party became a fiery figure in Israeli politics championing the interests of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin, died here on Monday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians must ''recognise Israel as the state of the Jewish people'' in order to achieve real peace.

Ali Mansouri, a Belgian citizenship of Iranian descent accused of spying for Iran, was indicted by a District Court in Lod on Sunday.

A 9-year-old Israeli girl, Noam Glick, was wounded in the chest Saturday by a Palestinian in Psagot, a West Bank settlement located near Ramallah.

Czech President Milos Zeman, who starts Monday an official visit in Israel, has proposed to move the Czech embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 4