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The secretary of state’s trip comes days after negotiations in Qatar ended without a major breakthrough. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was heading to Israel on Sunday to try [...]

As tensions again escalate with Hezbollah, Israelis face the prospect of another ''lost year'' in the evacuated north. For months, Erez Bergman had been working to encourage the evacuated residents [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner The Israeli prime minister is likely to become more dependent on the right-wing partners in his coalition government after the centrist Benny Gantz and his party pulled [...]

Byline: Vivian Yee, Emad Mekay and Isabel Kershner Israel defied ominous Egyptian warnings and took control of the Philadelphi Corridor, but the reaction from Egypt, which wants to maintain its [...]

Top leaders are challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to come up with a decisive strategy for Gaza, but analysts say his rivals have not presented clear visions of their own. [...]

''Our hearts are broken,'' one mourner said at the site of a rave for peace and love where hundreds were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. In a [...]

Israel moved on Sunday to shut down local operations of Al Jazeera, the influential Qatari-based news network, in an unusual step that critics denounced as anti-democratic and part of a [...]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Sunday that his cabinet had voted to shut down the Israeli operations of Al Jazeera, the Qatari-based network that is a major [...]

Israel moved on Sunday to shut down local operations of Al Jazeera, the influential Qatari-based news network, in an unusual step that critics denounced as anti-democratic and part of a [...]

Byline: Edward Wong and Isabel Kershner The Biden administration wants to focus on a cease-fire and rebuilding Gaza, but Israel's leader is pushing a new offensive. Nearing the end of [...]

The Biden administration wants to focus on a cease-fire and rebuilding Gaza, but Israel's leader is pushing a new offensive. Nearing the end of a whirlwind Middle East trip this [...]

The Biden administration wants to focus on a cease-fire and rebuilding Gaza, but Israel’s leader is pushing a new offensive. Nearing the end of a whirlwind Middle East trip this [...]

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was headed to Saudi Arabia in search of an agreement that would pause the fighting and free hostages held by Hamas. As international diplomats [...]

The Israeli military has declared the area around the Kerem Shalom border crossing a closed military zone. Israel on Sunday stepped up efforts to prevent Israeli protesters from blocking the [...]

The latest strikes across Israel's northern border came as the U.S. secretary of state made another trip to the Middle East in efforts to prevent a wider war. Israel launched [...]

A Lebanese official said the commander was part of the group’s Radwan unit, which Israel says aims to infiltrate its northern border. Hezbollah said on Monday that one of its [...]

In addition to striking down a law meant to curb its own powers, Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday set a decisive precedent by intervening for the first time in one [...]

As international outrage over the human toll of Israel’s offensive in Gaza grows, an increasingly public domestic debate is emerging over whether the country should press on with its war [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner A team of rivals joined together in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet. But beneath the veneer of unity, there are political differences and old resentments. The [...]

A team of rivals joined together in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet. But beneath the veneer of unity, there are political differences and old resentments. The five men who [...]

A team of rivals joined together in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet. But beneath the veneer of unity, there are political differences and old resentments. The five men who [...]

The Israeli prime minister went further than he had before in publicly laying out his vision for Gaza after the war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that his [...]

City halls and courts on Tuesday flew flags at half-staff. Workplaces, schools and campuses stopped for a minute of silence. Cafes set up small shrines where people could light memorial [...]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday forcefully rejected calls for a cease-fire as “calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism,” telling reporters that Israel was “fighting [...]

The Israeli military carried out a rare airstrike in the occupied West Bank, hitting a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp. Palestinian officials called the attack a “dangerous escalation.” The [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner With a ground invasion into Gaza imminent, Israelis are grappling with a total breakdown of trust and a collapse of everything they believed in and relied on. [...]

With a ground invasion into Gaza imminent, Israelis are grappling with a total breakdown of trust and a collapse of everything they believed in and relied on. On the ninth [...]

The U.S. secretary of defense, Lloyd J. Austin III, said on Friday that American security assistance “is already rapidly flowing into Israel” as he met with the Israeli defense minister [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner and Raja Abdulrahim As Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, Israelis huddled in shelters and Gazans flocked to supermarkets, fearing the Israeli military response. Israeli [...]

Israel’s military said its forces were still battling gunmen from Gaza on Israeli territory on Sunday afternoon, more than 30 hours after the initial surge of armed militants across the [...]

As Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, Israelis huddled in shelters and Gazans flocked to supermarkets, fearing the Israeli military response. Israeli citizens, barricaded in their homes in [...]

Israelis and Palestinians said the armed groups that were the targets of the military raid would quickly rebuild and the Israeli soldiers would be back soon. Before 8 a.m. on [...]

The change could accelerate the construction of thousands of new houses in the occupied territory and puts a far-right minister in charge of giving approvals. The Israeli government on Sunday [...]

Rare cross-border fire between Israel and militias in Lebanon ebbed on Friday, lowering fears of a wider escalation. But violence flared again in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where [...]

Fearing that an already-bloody year could worsen during Ramadan, Palestinians and Israelis met for the second time in a month. JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian officials met in Egypt on [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner A member of the old guard of Palestinian leaders, Mr. Qurei was a principal architect of the Oslo Accords, the first peace agreement with Israel. JERUSALEM - [...]

A member of the old guard of Palestinian leaders, Mr. Qurei was a principal architect of the Oslo Accords, the first peace agreement with Israel. JERUSALEM — Ahmed Qurei, a [...]

The conflict may have dealt a severe blow to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Gaza militant group, and strengthened the hand of Israel's interim prime minister, Yair Lapid. JERUSALEM -- A [...]

The truce appeared to end a three-day conflict in Gaza that barely changed the status quo in Israel and the occupied territories, but revealed splits among rival Palestinian militias. Israel [...]

One of the victims had given the attackers a ride, officials said. Then they killed him. The police are still searching for the two suspects. TEL AVIV -- Israeli forces [...]

The Israeli military said the five were killed during raids to arrest members of a Hamas network planning terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces killed five Palestinians [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner The largely liberal, secular beachside city has a reputation for being a hedonistic bubble. But during the past week, Tel Aviv has been targeted by at least [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner Not even during the intifadas, the mass Palestinian uprisings of the past, did Israel experience such a surge of both Arab and Jewish mob violence. LOD, Israel [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner A passionate champion of Palestinian statehood, his goal seemed to become less attainable with time. 'I'm not finished with what I was born to do,' he said. [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected the U.S. peace plan would gain him votes in Monday's election. It might not work out that way. YITZHAR, West Bank - [...]

Byline: Isabel Kershner BILIN, West Bank - On a recent weekday, Muhammad Abu Rahma returned to the place where Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers used to clash in weekly confrontations [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER BARKAN, West Bank -- An Israeli-run factory in the West Bank asks its Jewish employees on military reserve duty not to drop by in uniform so the [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- Israeli airport security, long extolled for its success in preventing terrorism, seems to have another target recently: critics of Israel. On Sunday, officers at Tel [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER DALIYAT EL-KARMEL, Israel -- On the edge of this Druse village, perched on a quiet green ridge above the Mediterranean, is a national monument to more than [...]

Byline: ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- Over five decades in control of the West Bank, Israel has marked out hundreds of thousands of acres as public land, and it has allocated [...]