Israel retaliates for deadly blast, rocket attacks

Israeli warplanes hit Hamas goals in Gaza early Thursday, hit back for rocket attacks on Israeli cities, as worry peaked over the first lethal bombing aims Israelis in Jerusalem in quite a few years.

A explosion Israel rapidly blamed on Palestinian militants ripped through a bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a woman, hurtful two dozen other people and increasing fears that a period of family member calm could be end as hopes for a negotiate peace fade.

Aggression has been on the rise, with the knife homicide this month of a Jewish settler family as they slept and the deaths of civilians in Gaza by Israeli beat Tuesday in reprisal for rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled strip.

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Huge Israel forest fire kills dozens: rescue services

A massive forest fire sweep northern Israel on Thursday, killing up to 40 people, many of them prison guards who were attentive in a bus trying to flee the flames, safety officials said.

Israeli TV showed pictures of a gutted bus and car that were it seems that engulf by the blaze in the Carmel Forest, near the city of Haifa.

"It's a catastrophe on a scale that we have by no means seen before," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

"We are harnessing all the armed forces of the state to deal with this disaster and set free those who are upset and to stop the fire," he added. He later called on Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Russia to help Israel tackle the blaze.

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Israeli archaeologists find ancient pool

Israeli archaeologists investigative the site for new civic rite bath in Jerusalem's Old City found a almost 2,000-year-old Roman swimming pool.

The detection sheds a rare light on the traditional era city the Romans built after destroy the second Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. and expelling the Jews from Jerusalem.

Ofer Sion, who is directing the excavations, said Monday the site helps confirm that the Roman city was larger than beforehand thought.

The archaeologists, who regularly inspect sites ahead of planned building projects, found steps leading to the pool's white mosaic floor and roof tiles embossed with legion's name.

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Mideast press deems US proposal fragile

The media in the Middle East commented at length on the US proposal to offer Israel defense and security guarantee in return for renewing a partial freeze on the building of Jewish settlement on the West Bank.

Israeli response ranged from hopeful to sceptical. Arab commentators were flippant of the offer. The in general tone of comment was that the US proposal was no assurance of progress in the talks.

A congeals for three months is neither here nor there… The query is whether Prime Minister Netanyahu and his coalition... are prepared to sign an accord that would take Israel back to the 1967 borders... If so, we should tip our hats to them.

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