The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online under a new project by the Israel Museum in association with internet giant, Google.

Yossi Matias, managing director of Google's R&D Center in Israel said that his company is aiming to organize the information of the world and make is accessible for users. The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient and fragile so even direct sunlight could destroy them.

Expressing security concerns over the restive situation in Egypt, Israel said that the new government in Egypt would let flow of arms to Gaza abridging the Israeli-Egyptian military dialogues.

Muslim Brotherhood had previously that one of its top priority is to hamper the peace treaty if it takes control of Cairo. Senior defense officials of Israel Defense Force (IDF) warned on Saturday that the shift of regime in Egypt would force Israel to budge resources and perhaps augment its force in the South.

Israeli officials have said that photographs show Israeli soldiers were on their own side of the border when Lebanese troops fired at them on Tuesday.

The Jerusalem Post has reported that the firefight, the first serious clash on the border since Israeli troops invaded southern Lebanon in 2006, resulted in the death of one Israeli soldier and four Lebanese. At least three Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist were killed and a number of other soldiers and civilians were injured, reports from Lebanon said.

Officials have revealed that an Israeli military helicopter on a training exercise crashed in Romania Monday with no sign of survivors among the seven personnel on board.

The Israeli CH-53 helicopter, with a crew of six Israelis and one Romanian, was taking part in the Blue Sky 2010 joint Romanian-Israeli air exercise when it went down about 3:20 p. m. local time The Romanian Defense Ministry issued a statement saying search-and-rescue teams located the wreckage about 5:45 p. m. in the Fundata-Zarnesti area in central Romania, the Romanian news agency Agerpres has reported.

Reaching out to Muslims is designed to reduce hostility toward Israel and the West, said U. S. President Barack Obama.

His "outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West," Obama said, speaking to Israeli TV in an interview from the White House on Wednesday.

U. S. officials have said that four high-powered semiautomatic guns are missing from a suitcase belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security team.

The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal have reported that the luggage went missing after being checked at New York's Kennedy International Airport Sunday for an American Airlines flight to Washington ahead of Netanyahu's meeting with President Barack Obama Tuesday. The luggage turned up in Los Angeles and was sent back to Washington by way of Chicago.

It has been reported that lawyers defending an alleged Israeli spy linked to a Hamas assassination plot said they plan to appeal a decision by Poland to extradite him to Germany.

It would use any means necessary to prevent suspected Mossad agent Uri Brodsky from being extradited, Israel had said in June.

Brodsky was arrested in Poland earlier this year in connection to using a fake German passport. He is believed to be the first Israeli spy allegedly tied to the slaying of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel in January.

Israel has banned regular flights from the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to Tel Aviv, apparently as a retaliatory move, Russian officials have said.

RIA Novosti reported on Thursday that in June 2009, Israeli air carriers decided not to schedule flights to the south of Russia when Russian authorities refused to let armed Israeli security into the country.

Israel also refused to accept flights into Israel by Aeroflot subsidiary Donavia. The flights were resumed at the end of 2009.

He is against freeing convicted terrorists into the West Bank in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel's prime minister said on Monday.

The Jerusalem Post has reported that Binyamin Netanyahu voiced his opposition to the idea to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Netanyahu told the committee, "We can't release dangerous terrorists to places in the West Bank, where they can kill Israeli citizens."

He further said that Israel continues to be open to any plans for the soldier's return.

It will intercept this weekend's Gaza-bound Lebanese flotilla with the same commandos used against a previous Turkish convoy, the Israeli military has said.

Ynetnews reported on Monday that two ships are expected to leave from Lebanon for Gaza: one allegedly carrying 25 European activists, including parliament members, and about 50 journalists, and a second said to carry female activists with chemotherapeutic medications for women and children and humanitarian aid.

Observers have said that a decision to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem could lead to increased friction between Israel and the United States.

The Los Angeles Times has reported that the Jerusalem City Council, in a Monday decision the Palestinian Authority called "unacceptable," approved a controversial development plan to demolish the houses in Arab neighborhoods.

According to the media reports, Israel has drawn praise from U. S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders for easing its Gaza blockade.

Haaretz has reported that the White House called the move a "step in the right direction" Thursday while Tony Blair, the United Nations envoy to the Mideast, termed it a "good start."

Other officials, however, including another U. N. official and the European Union, expressed skepticism.

According to the reports, a researcher in Israel reports a strong statistical link between in vitro fertilization and mild to moderate cases of autism.

Dr. Ditza Zachor of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, who conducted research at the Autism Center at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel, found 10.5 percent of 461 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were conceived using IVF, compared to the 3.5 percent autism rate in the general Israeli population.

The military will assume ships trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza have troublemakers on board, a top Israeli naval officer has said.

The Islamic Republic News Agency reported two Iranian ships will head for Gaza next week.

Rear Adm. Rani Ben-Yehuda told The Jerusalem Post on Monday, "I recommend that humanitarian activists who are planning on participating in these new flotillas think very hard because they cannot know who is on these ships. We believe that there will be groups that will try to cause provocations and repeat what happened on the Marmara."

According the reports of Haaretz, negotiations between Israel Aerospace Industries and Moscow on setting up a $300 million-$400 million factory in Russia to produce aerial drones have stalled because Israel government officials are reluctant to provide Moscow with such valuable technology.

The United States, which also has no wish to see the Russians get their hands on such advanced military capability, has also sought clarification on the proposed venture.

Authorities have revealed that police in Jerusalem shot and killed a Palestinian motorist after he allegedly intentionally ran over two Israeli border patrolmen.

Haaretz newspaper has reported that the driver hit the two officers, who suffered light injures, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz on Friday. Police say the motorist drove on for a short distance and then fled the scene on foot, and officers opened fire when he ignored orders to stop.

Haaretz reported on Friday that four Hamas Legislative Council members are being ordered out of Israel.

Jerusalem police confiscated the Israeli identity cards of the four council members, who refuse to give up membership in the organization, the Tel Aviv newspaper said.

The report further said that Mohammed Abu Tir, Mohammed Totach, Khaled Abu Arafa and Ahmed Atoun are being given until July to get out of the country.

Israel was described as a "cancerous tumor" by the supreme leader of Iran during Friday prayer celebrations honoring the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The semiofficial Fars News Agency has reported that Iran commemorated the anniversary of the 1989 death of Khomeini during Friday prayers in Tehran. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during his sermon reflected on the late cleric's strong stance against Israel.

The supreme leader further said, "Israel is a cancerous tumor."

According to the reports, there are growing indications that Israel's military or its intelligence service sabotaged three of the foreign ships involved in the ill-fated effort to get humanitarian supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces had taken covert action to disable two of the ships that were supposed to have participated in the blockade-busting operation on Monday, Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defense minister, hinted during an interview on Israel Radio.

International jitters has been caused by a report by The Sunday Times of London that Israel plans to deploy its German-built submarines, reputedly armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, off Iran.

There are concerns, particularly among Middle Eastern governments, that the Jewish state is being pushed into a corner because of its growing international isolation over its treatment of the Palestinians and the actions of its right-wing government.