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"The statement in question here is a congressional mandate that allows a United States citizen born in Jerusalem to direct the President and Secretary of State, when issuing his passport, to state that his place of birth is “Israel.”...

"Section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, Pub. L. No. 107-228, 116 Stat. 1350, requires the Secretary (Secretary) of the United States Department of State (State Department) to record “Israel” as the...

The Third International Congress of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists "Methodology and Innvoation in Mixed Legal Systems" June 20-23, 2011 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Mixed legal systems, both the classical...

VIENNA - (AP) Austria's Jewish community says it's taking an Israeli archive to court to force it to return a trove of historical documents. President Ariel Muzicant says the Vienna-based group filed a lawsuit in an Israeli court about three weeks...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - (AP) The Palestinian Authority has settled a federal lawsuit in Rhode Island over the shooting deaths 15 years ago of a couple returning home from a wedding in Israel, according to court papers filed Monday. The documents don't...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from an American born in Jerusalem over whether he can have Israel listed as his birthplace on his passport even though U.S. policy does not recognize the once-divided city as belonging...

JERUSALEM - (AP) When Devorah Adler's children go to school, they pass underneath the gun-toting security officer who stands on their roof 24-hours a day, walk down a path dotted by surveillance cameras and get in a van manned by another armed guard...

JERUSALEM - (AP) Tens of thousands of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews staged mass demonstrations on Thursday to protest a Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls' school. Protesters snarled traffic in Jerusalem and another...