JERUSALEM: Israel's parliament on Tuesday approved harsh new penalties on illegal migrants and Israelis who help them, passing one of several controversial measures designed to stanch the flood of Africans seeking sanctuary from poverty and (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel is likely to offer Palestinians a state within temporary borders, the country's defense minister was quoted as saying Tuesday, detailing for the first time an emerging Israeli plan for breaking the deadlocked peace (...)
JERUSALEM: An American tourist killed in a forest outside Jerusalem had deep spiritual ties to Israel through her involvement with an evangelical ministry that promotes Christianity among Jews.
Kristine Luken, who was in her mid-40s, was stabbed (...)
JERUSALEM: The body of a female American tourist, bound and with multiple stab wounds, was found Sunday near a road outside Jerusalem, police said.
Her friend, a naturalized Israeli originally from the UK, had reported her missing a day earlier (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's Cabinet, hoping to stanch the illegal flow of Africans through the country's porous southern border with Egypt, is scheduled to vote Sunday on a proposal to build a massive detention center to hold the migrants.
Some of the (...)
JERUSALEM: As diplomatic efforts gathered steam, Israel on Thursday awaited a crucial US document meant to persuade government hard-liners to renew limits on settlement construction and give stalled Mideast peacemaking a boost.
A US official told (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel and the United States were in a standoff Wednesday over the terms of a Washington-proposed settlement construction moratorium meant to revive Mideast peace talks.
Israeli officials had said several days ago that the US had (...)
JERUSALEM: It has become an article of faith in the Israeli-Palestinian equation: Israel's withdrawal from occupied lands must be accompanied by a removal of Jewish settlers.
But perhaps there's another option.
Although it's hardly mainstream (...)
JERUSALEM: An investigative journalist who cited classified documents provided by a military whistleblower has returned to Israel after spending nearly a year abroad wanted by the state, his employer said Monday.
The reporting by Uri Blau was at (...)
JERUSALEM: The family of a captured Israeli soldier set out Sunday on a 12-day march to Jerusalem to press Israeli leaders to make a deal with his Hamas captors to free him.
Sgt. Gilad Schalit was taken captive four years ago during a (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli official said Sunday that UN chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Ban wants former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel on Thursday rejected calls from the United Nations and others for an international investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but left the door open to foreign involvement.
Israel says the commandos used (...)