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
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
Carrying planks of plywood, a group of Israeli settlers pushed past soldiers guarding the barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip and quickly got to work. Within minutes, the young men had erected two small buildings —
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on three extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank who are accused of harassing and attacking Palestinians to pressure them to leave their land. Two farms that
The family of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by police in East Jerusalem while he held a firework have hit out after an Israeli minister branded him a “terrorist”. Rami al-Halhouli was killed on
The number of antisemitic incidents in Switzerland has leapt since the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel and the Israeli government's subsequent response against the Islamist group in Gaza, according to a report published
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday warned that the United States may need to eventually shape Israeli policy due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing cabinet’s approach toward Palestinians. “If Prime
UNIFIL investigation finds Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah and wounded several others in October. An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120mm rounds at a
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking U.S. Jewish leader, called for new elections in Israel in a stunning denouncement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer, D-N.Y., charged that Netanyahu has "lost his way" trying
The father of an Israeli soldier killed during the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 said he was going through a living hell a day after learning of the death and called for a
