JERUSALEM (AP) — The anticipated publication Friday of a U.N. report on violence aboard a Gaza-bound protest flotilla last year has led to a further souring of the key Mideast relationship between Israel and Turkey, after Turkey expelled the Israeli (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister responded Tuesday to a growing wave of protests over housing prices with a string of reforms aimed at defusing a crisis that has brought about a sharp drop in his approval ratings.
Calling the protests (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister said Sunday that his government is “anxiously monitoring” the political unrest in Egypt, his first comment on the crisis threatening a regime that has been one of Israel's key allies for more than 30 (...)
JERUSALEM: With Mideast peace talks at an impasse, two senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party are shopping around a new idea: In the absence of peace, Israel should pull large numbers of Jewish settlers out of the West (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas insurgents in an early-morning raid on a house in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a Hamas official said.
A Hamas radio station in the Gaza Strip reported immediately after the operation (...)
JERUSALEM: A political battle over a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that began with charges of insensitivity leveled at plans for a museum of religious tolerance at the site has spread into a more curious fight about whether hundreds of nearby (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli arrested and imprisoned in Libya last March while photographing Jewish sites will return to Israel on Monday after being freed in a complicated deal engineered by Israel's foreign minister, officials said.
Rafael Rafram (...)
JERUSALEM: Gaza insurgents fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Friday, the military said, a rare strike in a period of relative quiet.
The Israeli military said the rocket caused damage but no injuries. None of the Palestinian (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli government decision to shelve a controversial bill on Jewish conversions drew praise Friday from liberal Jewish groups in Israel and the US who opposed the legislation and waged a vocal campaign to get it thrown (...)