Israel and the Swedish Embassy responded furiously Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs. The article published Monday in Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest circulation daily, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the U.S. of an American Jew for illicit organ trafficking. Later the reporter told ...

An Israeli professor and peace advocate wounded by suspected hard-line extremists in a bomb attack says Israeli democracy is in danger. Zeev Sternhell says Israeli authorities must eradicate political violence. He warns that if political opponents begin physically attacking each other "then democracy cannot exist in these conditions." Sternhell is ...

A man seized control of a bulldozer and overturned a bus on a main road in Jerusalem today, killing at least three people before he was shot dead, Israeli police said. Officials identified the man as a Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who had an Israeli identification card and a criminal record.
He was shot by an off-duty soldier and ...