The Israeli general and statesman Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) served as minister of defense of Israel, beginning in 1967. Moshe Dayan was born in the kibbutz of Degania, Palestine, in 1915. His father Samuel, a farmer, was a founder of Degania and Nahalal...

Forty years after it defeated three Arab armies in six days, Israel's army is still trying to figure out how a war with a small guerrilla group in Lebanon last summer dragged on for five weeks and ended in a painful stalemate.Part of the answer,...

Israel's Supreme Court has delayed a widely criticized plea bargain that dropped the threat of rape charges and jail time against the former president, giving the state until Monday afternoon to defend the deal.Under the agreement signed last week, Moshe Katsav would confess to indecent...

Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied in a Tel Aviv square after sundown Thursday, demanding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign because of a government inquiry's scathing criticism of his handling of the inconclusive war in Lebanon.Olmert remained defiant, hoping to beat back a wave of...

In a Jan. 3 story about the death of former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, The Associated Press misidentified a singer who appeared in a concert in Jerusalem to mark Israel's 30th Independence Day. The singer was Leontyne Price, not Lena Horne.JERUSALEM (AP) _ Teddy Kollek,...