JERUSALEM: All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.
Although Iran has a history of treating (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel halted its airstrikes against Gaza Strip insurgents early Tuesday and rocket fire from the Palestinian territory ebbed as a cease-fire ending four days of clashes appeared to be taking effect.
Both sides had indicated they have (...)
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top religious partner said Wednesday that Israel's ruling coalition would not be shaken by the Supreme Court's annulment of a contentious law allowing ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to avoid military (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's vice premier declared Monday that many Arab countries aren't ready for democracy — a comment sure to rankle many in the Middle East, where thousands have died and thousands more have risked their lives in uprisings against brutal (...)
JERUSALEM: The Israeli Cabinet voted unanimously Sunday to finance a $160 million program to stanch the flow of illegal African migrants by stepping up construction of a border fence and expanding a detention center to hold thousands of new (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel on Wednesday successfully test-fired a missile said capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran, fanning the public debate over reports the country's top leaders are agitating for a military attack on Tehran's atomic (...)
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, has said the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations' 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state.
The Palestinian and (...)
UNITED NATIONS — Mahmoud Abbas' bold bid for U.N recognition of Palestinian statehood is doomed to fail but has won him admiration at home and re-energized international efforts to seek a negotiated settlement.
Thousands of jubilant, flag-waving (...)
JERUSALEM — Nearly all the staff have been cleared out of the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital ahead of an anti-Israel protest in Amman on Thursday, for fear the mission could be attacked like the Israeli embassy in Cairo was last week, (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's leader defiantly refused on Sunday to apologize to Turkey for a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led flotilla bent on breaching Israel's Gaza Strip blockade — an incident that has battered a relationship once seen as a (...)
JERUSALEM — A deadly attack on Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has sparked calls to raise the number of Egyptian troops allowed in the area under the historic peace treaty with Israel, to counter a surge in Islamist militant activity.
But (...)
JERUSALEM — An aide to Israel's prime minister on Wednesday denied a claim that Israel offered asylum to Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak several months ago.
The claim came from lawmaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Israeli defense (...)
JERUSALEM — Several months ago, Israel offered embattled Hosni Mubarak asylum but the then-president of Egypt turned the offer down "because he was a patriot," an Israeli lawmaker said Wednesday.
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a longtime friend of the (...)
JERUSALEM — A museum on the road separating Jewish west Jerusalem from the Arab neighborhoods in the city's east is attracting a daring group of artists from Middle Eastern nations that shun contact with Israel, trying to erode political barriers (...)
JERUSALEM — First came a revolt over cheese that forced Israel's largest dairy companies to lower their prices.
Now, with consumer rage mounting over what is widely seen as a staggering cost of living, tent camps have sprung up across Israel to (...)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli naval commandos on Tuesday seized control of a French ship attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, reporting no resistance during the takeover in international waters.
The navy boarded the ship after the (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel hopes to expel within 72 hours the 118 foreign, pro-Palestinian activists who were jailed over the weekend after being denied entry, officials said Sunday.
The timetable will depend on foreign airlines' ability to fly the (...)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's foreign minister said Tuesday that a U.S.-born Israeli arrested in Egypt on espionage charges is not a spy and expressed hope the case would soon be resolved.
Ilan Grapel, who served in the Israeli army as a paratrooper, (...)
WASHINGTON (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cheering U.S. Congress on Tuesday he was willing to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians, but he offered little concrete to entice Palestinians back to the (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's foreign minister is putting together an interim peace plan that would grant the Palestinians limited independence in an attempt to blunt their efforts to win international recognition of an independent state, a government (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel will present the UN with a plan to withdraw from the northern sector of a disputed village along the Lebanese border that it has occupied since its 2006 war with Hezbollah, an Israeli official said Sunday.
The official spoke on (...)
JERUSALEM: Washington's special envoy to the Mideast is in Israel Wednesday to try and get the stalled peace process back on track and press for a halt to new settlement construction on land the Palestinians want for a future state.
Israel's own (...)
JERUSALEM: A US envoy s postponement of his Mideast trip appeared Tuesday to deepen one of the worst US-Israeli feuds in memory - even as Israel s foreign minister signaled his government had no intention of curtailing the contentious construction (...)
JERUSALEM: Marathon top-level Israeli meetings ended early Tuesday without announcement of a decision over whether to accept Islamic militants demand to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for a lone Israeli serviceman.
A decision to pay that (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel s foreign minister declared Thursday that there is no chance of reaching a final accord with the Palestinians any time soon, casting a pall over the US Mideast envoy s latest effort to get peace talks moving again.
Peacemaking (...)