Search

Michael B. Oren, who spent four years as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ambassador to Washington, has called on Mr. Netanyahu to cancel his speech to Congress about Iran. Amos Yadlin, [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN TEL AVIV -- A young Israeli soldier, fresh from the front, bluntly recounts the orders from above. 'They never said, 'Leave no one alive,' but they said, [...]

The military on Monday terminated the service of 43 reservists from an elite intelligence unit who in September signed a letter refusing to participate in ''actions against Palestinians'' for moral [...]

TEL AVIV -- A young Israeli soldier, fresh from the front, bluntly recounts the orders from above. ''They never said, 'Leave no one alive,' but they said, 'Show no mercy,' [...]

JERUSALEM -- SHE is a crusading lawyer who serially sues rogue nations, terror groups and international banks to show, as she put it, ''there is a price to Jewish blood.'' [...]

JERUSALEM -- Facing an increased electoral threshold that threatens to bar small parties from Parliament, Israel's Arab political factions announced on Friday the formation of a single ticket for the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- The White House said on Thursday that President Obama would not meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel when he comes here in March to speak to [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Traditional math does not always apply to Israeli elections. As in any coalition system, the party that gets the most votes does not necessarily win. [...]

JERUSALEM -- The Palestinian Authority has paid its employees 60 percent of their December salaries, using loans to make up for a shortfall caused by Israel's withholding of $127 million [...]

JERUSALEM -- Traditional math does not always apply to Israeli elections. As in any coalition system, the party that gets the most votes does not necessarily win. That was the [...]

Byline: MAJD AL WAHEIDI and JODI RUDOREN BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- A potent symbol of the schism between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza, [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was right there next to the president of France on Sunday, marching through the streets of Paris for all the [...]

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- A potent symbol of the schism between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza, has been visible at the border crossing [...]

JERUSALEM -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was right there next to the president of France on Sunday, marching through the streets of Paris for all the world to see [...]

JERUSALEM -- They were buried Tuesday not in the land where they had made their homes but in what was described as their homeland. The funeral for the four Jews [...]

GAZA -- Three infants and a young fisherman have died from exposure during a fierce storm that plagued the Gaza Strip with bitter cold, rain and wind over the past [...]

JERUSALEM -- Like leaders around the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was quick to condemn the attack that killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday at the offices [...]

GAZA -- As a winter storm continued to pound the Middle East, thousands of Gaza residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged in last summer's war with Israel struggled with [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- When the Palestinians sought statehood at the United Nations in 2011, it was widely dismissed as a symbolic gambit to skirt negotiations with Israel and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to three life terms for his role as logistics commander in the abduction and murder of three [...]

JERUSALEM -- When the Palestinians sought statehood at the United Nations in 2011, it was widely dismissed as a symbolic gambit to skirt negotiations with Israel and Washington's influence over [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Israel is withholding $127 million in tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority in response to its move last week to join the International [...]

JERUSALEM -- Israel is withholding $127 million in tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority in response to its move last week to join the International Criminal Court, further [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The political fallout from the Palestinian move this past week to join the International Criminal Court is likely to be swift and profound. Israel is [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- President Mahmoud Abbas has moved to have the Palestinian Authority join the International Criminal Court, opening a new front in the Middle East conflict that [...]

JERUSALEM -- The political fallout from the Palestinian move Wednesday to join the International Criminal Court is likely to be swift and profound. Israel is expected to withhold tax transfers [...]

JERUSALEM -- President Mahmoud Abbas moved on Wednesday to have the Palestinian Authority join the International Criminal Court, opening a new front in the Middle East conflict that could lead [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN BEIT JALA, West Bank -- Before dishing out her homemade freekeh soup, Khadra Zreineh cracked open the front door despite the December chill. There was a fire [...]

BEIT JALA, West Bank -- Before dishing out her homemade freekeh soup, Khadra Zreineh cracked open the front door despite the December chill. There was a fire in the pot-bellied [...]

TEL AVIV WHEN it comes to the dissonance of working motherhood, Maj. Gen. Orna Barbivai had a doozy this summer. After her daughter's wedding at the height of Israel's war [...]

JERUSALEM -- As Chief Superintendent Aviad Ketafi of Israel's border police steered his sport utility vehicle through the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur on Monday afternoon, Palestinian youths pelted it [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- When Israel was founded nearly seven decades ago, its Declaration of Independence clearly defined the new nation as a Jewish state. But the document also [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- When Israel was founded nearly seven decades ago, its Declaration of Independence clearly defined the new nation as a Jewish state. But the document also enshrined democracy [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military has announced that it ordered criminal investigations of its own actions in eight additional incidents in the Gaza Strip during the war [...]

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had ordered criminal investigations of its own actions in eight additional incidents in the Gaza Strip during the war this summer, [...]

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian teenager stabbed two middle-age Israeli men at a supermarket in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday afternoon, the Israeli police said, wounding them moderately before being [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- A leading Nazi hunter said on Monday that Adolf Eichmann's top lieutenant, Alois Brunner, long one of the world's most wanted fugitives, died at least [...]

JERUSALEM -- A leading Nazi hunter said on Monday that Adolf Eichmann's top lieutenant, long one of the world's most wanted fugitives, died at least four years ago in Syria, [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Havdalah, the set of blessings that ends the Jewish Sabbath, means separation. The text talks about separating light from darkness, the day of rest from [...]

JERUSALEM -- Three Arab men were arrested on suspicion of stabbing two Israeli Jews in the Old City on Monday, an Israeli police spokesman said, extending a spate of violence [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- Amid roiling unrest over a contested Old City holy site, the Palestine Liberation Organization this month declared that the name used for the site by Jews, the [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- As Israelis and Palestinians grappled with the new-old reality of spiraling violence, Israeli security forces revived a controversial antiterrorism policy, demolishing the East Jerusalem home [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Moving ahead with a revival of a controversial policy suspended a decade ago, Israeli security forces on Wednesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM -- Amid the condemnations from all corners over the deadly attack Tuesday at a Jerusalem synagogue, there were also disturbing signs of celebration. A cartoon of [...]

JERUSALEM -- As Israelis and Palestinians grappled on Wednesday with the new-old reality of spiraling violence, Israeli security forces revived a controversial antiterrorism policy, demolishing the East Jerusalem home of [...]

Byline: JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM -- Two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- The Orthodox Jewish men were facing east, to honor the Old City site where the ancient temples once stood, when two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJERUSALEM -- Amid the condemnations from all corners of Tuesday's deadly attack at a Jerusalem synagogue, there were also disturbing signs of celebration. A cartoon of a bloody meat [...]

Byline: DAVID E. SANGER, STEVEN ERLANGER and JODI RUDOREN WASHINGTON -- When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade [...]

WASHINGTON -- When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear [...]