WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to visit the Church of the Nativity, but not the Western Wall, when he travels to Israel next week. He will speak at Jerusalem's convention center, but not before the Knesset, Israel's Parliament. And he will inspect …
A senior Bayit Yehudi source emphasized that the party fought to get the Diaspora portfolio, because it sees Israel's connection to Jewish communities around the world as essential. In addition, the party made sure to put education for Jewish tradition …
Benjamin Netanjahu und Yair Lapid haben sich nach zähen Verhandlungen geeinigt: Medienberichten zufolge kommt es in Israel zu einem neuen Regierungsbündnis aus Likud-Beitenu, Zukunftspartei und der rechten Siedlerpartei von Naftali Bennett.
Hamas has launched a campaign to convince Palestinians who collaborate with Israel to turn themselves in, offering promises of impunity and financial rewards. The Islamist group claims to have obtained a list of Palestinian …
Ross recently published a piece calling for Israel to freeze new settlements east of its separation barrier, ignoring the fact the wall cuts in substantially on Palestinian land and water resources. Friedman rightly notes that the …
Three weeks before Passover, a plague of locusts is swarming from Egypt to Israel, sparking fears among farmers in the region. The timing of the insect invasion is eerie, because the Bible's Book of Exodus tells of 10 plagues …
You can learn a lot about the face Israeli society has tried to put forward by the faces its judges choose each year. In 1952, at the height of tensions between Israel's European veterans and Middle-Eastern Jewish newcomers, …
Israeli authorities are threatening detained Eritrean and Sudanese nationals, including asylum seekers, with prolonged detention to pressure them to leave Israel, Human Rights Watch and the Hotline for Migrant Workers said …
Shapiro said that Israel and the US had a number of shared principles on Iran, and reiterated that the two countries shared a common understanding of the Iranian threat, a common intelligence picture and a common goal: prevention, not containment.
The Geneva negotiators included former senior military and intelligence people including a former chief of staff, and it was gaining wide public support throughout Israel's mainstream. Governments around the world were adding their support and even in …
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