Israel said on Friday it would send a delegation to Qatar for fresh talks on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, keeping faint hopes for a truce alive despite rejecting a long-awaited counter-offer from
The Islamist group Hamas on Friday criticized the "unilateral" designation by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of an ally and leading business figure as prime minister with a mandate to help reform the Palestinian Authority (PA)
President Joe Biden on Friday praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s call for Israeli elections and his sharp criticism of that nation’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish elected official in U.S.
Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist. This time it was Yitzhak Yosef, one of Israel’s two chief rabbis. In response to
It’s everything a journalist must salute, a humanist must confront, and a Jew must dread. Carrying the loaded title “The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending,” an Atlantic magazine cover essay by Franklin Foer
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “prolonging the war on the Gaza Strip with the aim of remaining in power” in a statement to Arabic media on Wednesday. The comments
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approved a revised state budget for 2024 that became bogged down in political wrangling and unnerved investors worried about the government’s fiscal path during the war against Hamas. A
Israel’s Parliament gave final approval on Thursday to a revised 2024 budget swollen by defence outlays that will bring spending to an all-time high. The vote in the Knesset overcame delays after several members of
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is scheduled to visit Israel on Sunday, Israeli media reported. The visit would be Scholz's second since the conflict erupted in October. He will also stop in Jordan, sources told the
The European Union's top humanitarian aid official said on Thursday he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which should continue playing a
