Sapper called in to disarm explosives outside the Old City; overnight, security forces arrest 18 Palestinians in the West Bank

US-Russian backed cease-fire represents best hope to end 5-year-old conflict and stem the flow of refugees to neighboring countires

In precedent-setting move, government accepts position of new A-G to spare home of killer whose father handed him over

Yael Weissman’s husband rushed to confront terrorists unarmed; ‘the army knows what it’s doing,’ she says

Herzl Halevi says economy must be strengthened to avoid new conflict, agrees with UN report that Strip could uninhabitable by 2020

Passenger en route to Eilat detained by police after Sde Dov security uncovers cache of weapons in her luggage

Communist opposer Gyorgy Donath, executed in 1947, supported discriminatory laws against Jews during the Holocaust

17-year-old Palestinian from Hebron accused of carrying out attack was working illegally for a Bedouin family in Rahat