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Byline: JODI RUDOREN HEFER VALLEY, Israel -- The new crisp, acidic and mineral white from a high-end Israeli winery was aged for eight months - or, depending on how you [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN KFAR VITKIN, Israel -- Kobi Tzafrir has a dream. That one day, he will run a chain of restaurants across Israel where the sons of Isaac and [...]

Byline: PETER BAKER and JODI RUDOREN WASHINGTON -- Jonathan J. Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, walked out of prison early Friday after 30 years, but the Obama [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and SEWELL CHAN JERUSALEM -- In a stinging rebuke to Israel, the European Union has insisted that some goods produced on land seized in the 1967 war [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and SEWELL CHAN LONDON -- In a stinging rebuke of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, the European Union pushed ahead on Wednesday with rules for labeling [...]

Byline: PETER BAKER and JODI RUDOREN WASHINGTON -- For President Obama, it was a day of celebration. He had just signed the most important domestic measure of his presidency, his [...]

Byline: PETER BAKER and JODI RUDOREN WASHINGTON -- For President Obama, it was a day of celebration. He had just signed the most important domestic measure of his presidency, his [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has indicated that he is reconsidering his choice for public diplomacy chief after a furor over the nominee's critiques [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has picked as his new chief of public diplomacy a conservative academic who suggested President Obama was anti-Semitic and [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Fuad Abu Hamed, a middle-aged, middle-class Palestinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher, summed the situation up succinctly when he said, 'The story [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and RAMI NAZZAL RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian teenagers who came one after another into the True Love gift and music shop here on a recent [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israeli historians and opposition politicians have joined Palestinians in denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand mufti [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israeli historians and opposition politicians on Wednesday joined Palestinians in denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- East Jerusalem, long the emotional heart of Palestinian life, is now the fiery soul of its discontent. It is not just that most of the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The morning of the attack, Subhe Abu Khalifa did not get up for work, telling his mother he was too tired and his feet hurt. [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and SEWELL CHAN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli authorities erected roadblocks and checkpoints in some Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem on Wednesday and deployed hundreds of police officers [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- Four attacks by Palestinians in Jerusalem and a city 40 miles away killed three Israeli Jews and wounded at least a dozen [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The bulletins erupted in staccato bursts on Friday morning on Israel Radio and on a WhatsApp group the Israeli police set up for reporters: A [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Seeking to curb a rising tide of violence and unrest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel barred his ministers from visiting a contested Old City [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER and JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Under heavy domestic pressure from critics on the right and the left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has threatened to wage [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and JONATHAN ROSEN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli authorities barred most Palestinians from entering Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday except to worship at the Al Aqsa Mosque, where [...]

Byline: RICK GLADSTONE and JODI RUDOREN Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel doubled down Thursday in his harsh condemnations of the Iranian nuclear deal, describing the widespread international praise for [...]

Byline: RICK GLADSTONE and JODI RUDOREN Demonstrating a new level of tension with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority declared on Wednesday that it was no longer bound [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan -- It's an obvious question, really, not particularly sophisticated: What is your daily routine? I asked it over and over to glean insight [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan -- Bicycles are the new basics for the world's largest concentration of Syrians who have fled their country's bloody civil war. Thousands traverse [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN ZAATARI, Jordan -- Bicycles are the new basics in the world's largest Syrian refugee camp. Thousands traverse the few paved roads and acres of rocky dirt, souped [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Mahmoud Abbas, the aging Palestinian president, may be paving the way for his exit from political life - or he may be trying [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes it gets in the way. A little of both happened to Tanya Habjouqa, a photographer whose 'Occupied [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and MAJD AL WAHEIDI GAZA CITY -- The men of Shejaiya still come daily to sit vigil in the desolate ruins of their neighborhood, drinking tea and [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and DIAA HADID JERUSALEM -- A single Palestinian prisoner's determination to starve himself to death unless he is freed is flummoxing Israel's legal, medical, political and security [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and MAJD AL WAHEIDI GAZA CITY -- A new training regimen for fighters in Hamas's armed wing employs slide presentations and a whiteboard rather than Kalashnikov rifles [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- On one edge of the Zion Square gathering, an Orthodox yeshiva student was in heated debate with a secular couple over the hierarchy of sin. [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- On one edge of the Zion Square gathering, an Orthodox yeshiva student was in heated debate with a secular couple over the hierarchy of sin. [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- He has the pedigree: Meir Ettinger is a grandson and the namesake of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN GAZA -- The new road known as Jakar Street is a rough dirt expanse that Hamas bulldozers cleared parallel to the fence separating this restive Palestinian strip [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- Amid politicians' promises to crack down on Jewish terrorism suspects after the fatal firebombing of a Palestinian home, the Israeli authorities asked [...]

Byline: DIAA HADID and JODI RUDOREN DUMA, West Bank -- A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and his 4-year-old brother and parents were critically injured Friday in an arson [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Robert Turner is recognized everywhere in the Gaza Strip, jokingly called its governor. To most people there, he is known simply as 'Mr. Bob.' He [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN HEBRON, West Bank -- It took Mohammad Abu Halaweh a good 10 minutes to pry open the rusted metal doors of his butcher shop for the first [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- A United Nations investigation has found 'serious violations of international humanitarian law' that 'may amount to war crimes' by both Israel and Palestinian militants in [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The chief executive of a French telecommunications company made an extraordinary personal pilgrimage on Friday to apologize to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, after [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Supporters of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally start with a moral argument: Both peoples deserve the rights of self-determination and sovereignty; one [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said that his country faced 'an international campaign to blacken its name' based not on his policies toward [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN Jerusalem -- The Palestinians dropped their bid to suspend Israel from international soccer competition at the last minute on Friday and agreed to instead form a committee [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Hinting at a new strategy as he starts his fourth term with a more conservative coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the European [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has named a longtime confidant who is hawkish on Iran and the Palestinian issue to run the Foreign Ministry, [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday named a longtime confidant who is hawkish on Iran and the Palestinian issue to run the Foreign [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian grievances against Israel are familiar ones: hampering travel, blocking import of equipment, rampant racism and the treatment of settlements in the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and DIAA HADID JERUSALEM -- The Vatican has announced that it will soon sign a treaty that includes recognition of the 'state of Palestine,' lending significant symbolic [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN Jerusalem -- The most recognizable Israeli artwork depicting the Iranian nuclear threat was the cartoon bomb that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line through at [...]