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Palestinians: Apartheid state if Netanyahu wins
The Palestinians have long complained that Israel's right-wing government is killing peace prospects by settling the West Bank with Jews, but now ...
Palestinians build another West Bank tent protest
Palestinian activists have set up a protest camp in the West Bank to demonstrate against what they say is an Israeli land grab. They say they set up ...
Jewish-Arab party makes long-shot election bid
An Arab woman who's been toiling on the fringes of Israeli politics for nearly two decades has broken out of obscurity in this year's election with ...
Israel takes down anti-settlement tent camp
A spokesman says Israeli police have taken down a West Bank tent camp pitched by Palestinians to protest Israeli plans to build a large Jewish ...
Obama, Netanyahu seem headed for US-Israel clash
Israel's premier on Wednesday dismissed President Barack Obama's reported displeasure with his hard-line policies toward the Palestinians, a sisgn ...
AP Interview: Israel's Lapid won't be 'fig leaf'
Little known outside Israel, political newcomer Yair Lapid could soon become the moderate face to the world of an otherwise hard-line government after ...
Israeli watchdog rips Netanyahu over settlements
A review of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policies shows a clear intent to prevent the creation of a viable Palestinian state by ...
Jerusalem barrier spurs illicit building boom
Dozens of apartment towers sprouting up illicitly in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem are creating a fraught new dynamic in the struggle for control ...
Israel to open exhibit on biblical King Herod
Israel's national museum said Tuesday it will open what it calls the world's first exhibition devoted to the architectural legacy of biblical King ...
Voter turnout push could challenge Israeli leader
With large numbers of Israelis expected to sit out next week's election, centrist activists have launched a last-ditch appeal to get out the vote, ...
Israel PM vows to proceed with disputed settlement
Israel's prime minister pledged Sunday to move ahead with construction of a new Jewish settlement in a strategic part of the West Bank, speaking just ...
Palestinian protesters evicted from West Bank site
Palestinian protesters who pitched tents at a strategic West Bank site to protest plans to build a Jewish housing project there were evicted early ...
Influential Israeli Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in hospital
The spiritual leader of an Israeli ultra-Orthodox political party was hospitalized after a suspected minor stroke in Jerusalem on Saturday, a ...
Analysis: Israel left wing sees Jewish state's end
An apocalyptic tone has crept into Israel's hitherto muted election season, with opposition leaders and others sounding increasingly desperate ...
Palestinian killed in Gaza border fence shooting
The Israeli military shot and killed one Palestinian near the border fence with Gaza on Friday, an official in the territory said. The military said ...
Palestinian leader rejects deal on Syria refugees
The Palestinian president said he has rejected a conditional Israeli offer to let Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria resettle in the West Bank and ...
Israel president warns of new Palestinian uprising
Israel's president has warned that the Palestinians are liable to launch a new uprising if the Jewish state doesn't do more to try to reach a peace ...
Storm leaves Gaza man dead, Jerusalem snowed in
A Gaza health official says a Palestinian man was electrocuted after being struck by a power cable snapped loose by ferocious winter winds, while a ...
Winter storm batters Mideast, 8 dead
The fiercest winter storm to hit the Mideast in years brought a rare foot of snow to Jordan on Wednesday, caused fatal accidents in Lebanon and the ...
Opponents take last-ditch aim at Israeli leader
Israel's election campaign entered its home stretch on Tuesday with the beginning of a quirky two-week period of televised political advertisements, ...
State of Palestine name change shows limitations
With U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state in his pocket, President Mahmoud Abbas wants official documents to carry a new emblem: "State of ...
Hagel nomination unnerves some in Israel
President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in Israel, where some circles view the ...
US senator calls for gradual cut in aid to Israel
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul on Monday called for a gradual reduction of American foreign aid, delivering the message in an unlikely venue — since Israel is ...
Chefs offer their take on Jerusalem
Two London-based chefs with roots in Jerusalem one day. The next, poster boys for peace. Such has been the reaction to "Jerusalem," a bestselling ...
Palestinians will outnumber Israeli Jews by 2020
The Palestinian statistics bureau estimates that Arabs will outnumber Jews in the Holy Land by the end of the decade, a scenario that could have grave ...