Trump’s pick for Israel ambassador faces rocky confirmation
David Friedman, the firebrand attorney President Donald Trump picked to be his ambassador to Israel, faces a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Trump signaled a dramatic shift in strategy for pursuing peace in the Middle East.
Israel leader’s White House trip clouded in uncertainty
Israel’s prime minister heads to Washington this week for a high-profile meeting with President Donald Trump that suddenly is clouded in uncertainty.
Palestinians ask world to punish Israel for settlement law
A Palestinian Cabinet minister on Tuesday called on the international community to punish Israel for a contentious new law, just hours after the Israeli parliament adopted the bill to retroactively legalize thousands of West Bank settlement homes built unlawfully on private Palestinian land.
Trump moves toward tougher line on Israeli settlements
President Donald Trump is warning Israel that constructing new settlements “may not be helpful” to Middle East peace efforts, shifting toward a tougher line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
World diplomats tell Trump, Israel: Mideast needs peace
Sending a forceful message to Israel’s prime minister and the incoming Trump administration, dozens of countries called Sunday on Israel and the Palestinians to revive work toward long-elusive peace — including an independent Palestinian state.
Israeli soldier’s manslaughter conviction divides country
The rare manslaughter conviction Wednesday of an Israeli soldier who fatally shot a badly wounded Palestinian attacker exposed a deepening rift between proponents of the rule of law and a burgeoning nationalist movement.
Obama, Netanyahu camp’s relations hit rock bottom
It took eight years of backbiting and pretending they got along for relations between President Barack Obama’s administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to finally hit rock bottom.
Vote on Israel could spur further action — or trouble for UN
The U.S. green light that allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem could spur moves toward new terms to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Trump’s pick for Israel envoy signals break on US policy
Donald Trump’s selection of a hard-line pro-Israel advocate as his U.S. ambassador to the Jewish state could signal the end of decades of American support for the establishment of an independent Palestine.
Israel mourns death of former president and prime minister
Israel today mourned the death of Shimon Peres, a former president and prime minister whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state.
Israel to get $38 billion in US military aid over 10 years
The United States will provide Israel’s military with $38 billion during the next 10 years, officials said Tuesday, the largest batch of military assistance the U.S. has ever pledged to another country.
In Israel’s religious press, Hillary Clinton is invisible
Hillary Clinton may become the president of Israel’s most important ally, but her image is banished from a significant swath of the country’s media: the ultra-Orthodox press whose deeply conservative readership chafes at images of women.
Trump cancels Israel visit after uproar over comments
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump canceled plans Thursday to visit Israel, a trip for which even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — widely seen as an ally of the Republican Party — had shown little enthusiasm.
Hospital raid video gives rare look at murky Israeli unit
Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday gave a rare glimpse into the murky undercover units that Israel contends are a key tool in preventing violence and Palestinians revile as a ruthless symbol of Israeli occupation.
Bryant leading trade delegation to Israel
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is traveling to Israel for a week with a delegation of state economic development employees and private business executives.
Airbus to build helicopters for Israeli police force
Airbus will build four helicopters at its Lowndes County plant that will be used by the Israel Police force, company officials announced.
After deal, Israel still vows to block an Iran nuclear bomb
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called today’s nuclear deal with Iran a mistake of “historic proportions” and vowed to keep up efforts to block the Islamic Republic from obtaining an atomic bomb.
Boycott drive gains strength, raising alarm in Israel
Ten years ago, a small group of Palestinian activists had a novel idea: Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement, they called for a global boycott movement against Israel as a nonviolent method to promote the Palestinian struggle for independence.
3 Americans, Briton killed in Jerusalem attack
Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue today, attacking worshippers with meat cleavers and a gun during morning prayers and killing four people before they were killed in a shootout with police, officials said.
Amnesty: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza war
Amnesty International today accused Israel of committing war crimes during the war in the Gaza Strip this summer.