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The article focuses on an alleged involvement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a corruption related to a newspaper, referencing a report released by Channel 2, a commercial television station, and mentions that Netanyahu proposed helping publisher Yediot Aharonot financially.

For the last six years, The Berkeley Daily Planet has published a freewheeling assortment of submissions from readers, who offer sharp-elbowed views on everything from raucous college parties (generally bad) to the war in Iraq (ditto). But since March, that running commentary has been under attack by a small but vociferous group of critics who accuse the paper's editor, Becky O'Malley, of publishing too many letters and other commentary pieces critical of Israel. Those accusations are the basis of a campaign to drive away the paper's advertisers and a Web site that strongly suggests The Planet and its editor are anti-Semitic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Franz Kafka's final wish before his death in 1924 -- that his papers be burned -- was famously defied by his friend, the writer Max Brod. The world got ''The Trial,'' ''The Castle'' and the adjective Kafkaesque; Mr. Brod got the papers. When Mr. Brod fled to Tel Aviv from Prague on the last train out in 1939 as the Nazis rolled in, he had with him a suitcase full of Kafka's documents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators exchanged position papers at a meeting this week, but neither side held out the promise of a breakthrough. The talks in Amman, Jordan, between the Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and the Israeli negotiator Yitzhak Molho were the first direct discussions between the sides in more than 15 months. They will reconvene in Amman on Monday, the State Department said. ''It is clear to me that the document presented to Yitzhak Molho by Saeb Erekat is unacceptable in its present state, and I imagine that the Palestinians will not accept what was presented by Molho,'' Mr. Barak told Israeli radio. ''Long negotiations await us.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISTANBUL -- A Turkish newspaper published the names and photographs on Monday of more than 140 Israeli soldiers who the paper said took part in the raid on a Turkish flotilla to Gaza last year that ended with the death of nine passengers and created a diplomatic standoff between Turkey and Israel. The newspaper, Sabah, said the Turkish government began searching for the soldiers' identities after the Israeli authorities failed to cooperate in an investigation that prosecutors in Turkey said could lead to legal action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the corruption accusations that threaten the candidacy of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.

Reports on the criticisms against an article written by Abtissam Moflehi that focused on the abuses of Israeli soldiers against Palestinians.

Focuses on documents given to the U.S. that Israeli officials say link Yasir Arafat with Palestinian militant attacks. Claims that the documents prove that Arafat financed and oversaw the attacks; View that Israel is attempting to blunt U.S. pressure to halt its military offensive in the West Bank; Response of Palestinian officials; Claims that the documents were recovered at Arafat's headquarters; Possible link of moderate Jabril Rajoub with terrorism; Overview of the documents.

Focuses on the alleged evidence which proves that Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat paid members of his Fatah faction accused of terrorist acts against Israeli civilians.

Discusses how United States President Bill Clinton has intervened the peace talks between Israel and Syria. Remarks from a diplomat involved in the talks; Comments from State Department spokesman James P. Rubin; Issues to negotiate first by Israel and Syria.

Reports that Israeli intelligence agents married Muslim women to infiltrate Israel's Arab communities. Activities of the Shin Bet intelligence agency; Number of Arabs in Israel; Assumption of different identities; Break up of the Shin Bet; The idea seen as a mistake; Israel's other undercover operations.

Reports that the United States House Commerce Committee and its chairman Republican Thomas Bliley Jr. of Virginia have subpoenaed highly sensitive tobacco-industry documents during the week of April 22, 1998. Arguments by Roberta Walburn, an attorney at law; Background information on litigation surrounding the tobacco industry.

Reports that approximately 39,000 more tobacco-industry documents were subpoenaed by United States' House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley of Virginia. When the documents must by turn over to the committee; Information on the documents subpoenaed; Details on the issue.

Reports on the request of the four largest United States cigarette makers that Ramsey County District Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, allow them to release more than 33 million pages of internal documents being used against them in a lawsuit. Release of information from the formerly confidential documents in Minnesota's lawsuit against the tobacco industry; When the tobacco companies turned over the documents to Fitzpatrick; Names of the tobacco companies.

Reports on Procter & Gamble Co.'s filing with the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade to seek dismissal of a preliminary decision that sought to impose duties on the company for selling Pampers diapers at below-market prices. Complaint by Amir Paper Products, Israel's leading diaper manufacturer, that P&G is dumping Pampers made in Germany into the Israeli market at below-market prices.

The article reports that artifacts from Israel suggest that people developed language and other key abilities early in their evolution. The earliest Acheulean finds in Africa date to about 1.6 million years ago. At the Jordan River site, Naama Goren-Inbar, an archaeologist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her colleagues sifted through the gravel they had unearthed to extract tiny pieces of burned stone, wood and seeds, some only two millimeters long. Most recently, she and her colleagues argued in a paper published in the journal "Science," in 2004 that the earliest humans at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov used and controlled fire.

The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper announced Thursday that it would shift to an online-only edition at the end of the month. In a letter posted on the paper's Web site, the editor, Becky O'Malley, and publisher, Mike O'Malley, cited falling advertising sales, absentee business owners, and a continuing boycott by a group that accuses the paper of being overly critical of Israel. ''The campaign against the Planet's free-speech policy by a few misguided zealots who represent themselves as friends of Israel has certainly contributed to our advertising problems in some measure,'' the O'Malleys wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Dodgers' owner, Frank McCourt, filed papers opposing his wife's demand to be reinstated as the team's chief executive, citing insubordination and an affair he said she had with a bodyguard. The documents were submitted a day after Jamie McCourt filed divorce papers seeking to regain her $2 million-a-year job. In a filing submitted by the Dodgers that opposes her return to the team, Dodgers lawyers allege that Jamie McCourt took a trip with her bodyguard, Jeff Fuller, in early July to Israel on team business, but then headed to France for two and a half weeks and billed the Dodgers for the trip. Jamie McCourt is also accused of not giving her husband any information about her assignments as chief executive and not providing the team with her schedule of public appearances. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses an academic paper titled "Cannabis Usage in Tourism: A Sociological Perspective," by Yaniv Belhassen, Carla Almeida Santos, and Natan Uriely. The three authors are from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The paper was published in the July 2007 issue of the periodical "Leisure Studies." According to the article the study examines the social forces that shape tourists' motives in consuming cannabis while on vacation. The paper also explores the larger issue of the normalization of cannabis use in Western societies.

The article reports on the refusal of Israel towards the application of dozens of medical patients in the Gaza Strip seeking to travel for treatment in Israel or the West in February 2014 due to the error on the logo of the Palestinian Authority logo printed on papers.

JERUSALEM -- The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Thursday strongly denounced a Palestinian Authority paper that denies any Jewish connection to the Western Wall, the iconic holy site and place of Jewish worship in the Old City of Jerusalem, describing the report as ''reprehensible and scandalous.'' The episode appeared to signal a worsening atmosphere after a two-month hiatus in peace talks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JERUSALEM -- There are pasted-on half pages, numerous cross-outs and insertions in meticulous penmanship and an open acknowledgment that some of the mathematics was beyond even him. Albert Einstein personally rewrote the laws of physics in a sparsely furnished central Berlin apartment nearly a century ago and the resulting manuscript, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display here for the first time. Each of the 46 pages, labored over between November 1915 and their publication in May 1916, has its own case, each lighted dimly in a room that has been darkened to protect the paper. There on Page 1 is the now familiar title in German: ''The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An Israeli study, believed to be one of the first of its kind, has found significantly higher cancer rates among European Jews who immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust than among those who left Europe for what is now Israel either before or during World War II. The rates of breast and colorectal cancer were particularly high among those who spent the war years in Nazi-occupied Europe, according to the paper, published Nov. 4 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the complaints of the U.S. on Israel regarding the holdup of its aid shipments to Gaza. Howard Sumka, mission director for the U.S. Agency of International Development in the Palestinian territories, said that senior diplomats need to negotiate with Israeli authorities and air workers had to do repacking for the items to qualify as vital humanitarian aid. The items include jam, toothpaste, and toilet paper.

YOU might say Tel Aviv is your ticket to Israel. A reproduction of a boarding pass from Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport is printed on every menu at this kosher restaurant, which opened in Great Neck in August. The same design decorates the T-shirts worn by the waiters. Tel Aviv is a bright, bustling little storefront cafe with butcher-block tables, tile floors and paper napkins. Cherry-red shades covering the hanging lights vie for attention with brightly colored travel posters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's tour to Israel on July 23, 2008. The visit is said to be intended to connect better with American Jews. His tour includes a meeting with senior Israeli leaders. However, a poll published in an Israeli paper on June 2008 revealed that 36% of the Jews preferred Senator John McCain over Obama.

The article cites a study conducted by researcher Doron Nof and his colleagues which states that when Jesus took his legendary stroll on the surface of the Sea of Galilee, he might have actually been walking on a floating ice patch. In a paper in the April 2006 issue of the "Journal of Paleolimnology," Nof and his colleagues describe a phenomenon called "springs ice," in which warm saltwater springs flow into a fresh-water lake. If the atmospheric conditions are right, they argue, patches of the lake that are not saltwater could freeze four to six inches thick. And that, speculates Nof, is what Jesus might have walked on.

Discusses issues on the peace talks between Syria and Israel. Factors which contributed to the breakdown of the talks; Accusations of Syria against Israel; Reaction of Syria to a working paper prepared by United States officials on the status of the talks; Political condition in Syria.

States that ascertaining the readiness of President Hafez al-Assad to deal is in question while Israeli and American officials are gleeful about their success at having Syria negotiate again. Israeli-American view; How Israeli papers greeted announcement; Declaration by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

Reports on the rise in the prices of shares in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Jerusalem. Reasons for the rise; Comments of columnist, Nehemiah Strassler in the Haaretz paper.

States that William H. Ginsburg, lawyer representing Monica S. Lewinsky in the sexual scandal against United States President Bill Clinton, was quoted in an Israel newspaper interview as saying that as Jews, neither himself nor his client wanted to topple a president friendly to Israel. Name of the paper and when the interview was published; Details on the interview.