Israel

Israeli foreign minister slams Sanders ‘horrifying comment’

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister denounced Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders on Wednesday for what he cal...
9:47 26 February 2022

Michael Douglas, Zeta-Jones to co-host Jerusalem ceremony

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hollywood power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are set to return to Israel as co-hosts...
5:31 26 February 2022

Mubarak, Egypt’s autocrat ousted in uprising, dies at 91

CAIRO (AP) — Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for nearly 3...
18:36 25 February 2022

Netanyahu banks on Trump plan to drive up pro-settler votes

ATERET, West Bank (AP) — With Israel’s prime minister eager to court the votes of the country’s influential West Bank se...
6:36 24 February 2022

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria after Palestinian rockets attacks

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in...
22:45 23 February 2022

Pope cautions against “unfair” Middle East peace plans

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has cautioned against “unfair” solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Pale...
12:00 23 February 2022

Israel’s Lieberman stills holds keys to future government

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel finds itself in a familiar place after a tumultuous election campaign — with maverick politician...
7:04 23 February 2022

Israel says cruise passenger flown home from Japan has virus

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the 11 Israelis who were flown home after being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan has tested...
12:23 21 February 2022

Israel confirms ultra-Orthodox draft figures were inflated

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday it found “serious, systemic failures” in its own reporting that infl...
16:37 20 February 2022

Israeli PM’s rival denies wrongdoing amid probe reports

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leading opposition figure Benny Gantz denied wrongdoing on Thursday after media reports said I...
8:33 20 February 2022

Israeli Opera to host Placido Domingo despite protest

JERUSALEM (AP) — Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a weeklong singing competit...
4:26 19 February 2022

Stormy US-Europe relations as top officials head to Munich

WASHINGTON — Some of President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy priorities stand at pivotal moments as two high-level national security officials hea...
5:10 13 February 2022

Fire sale: An Iran plant makes the US flags protesters burn

KHOMEIN, Iran — Near the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, workers at a small Iranian factory diligently add all 50 stars and 13 red-a...
6:50 10 February 2022

Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal bombing

RAMALLAH, West Bank — One of the men was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he wa...
6:11 10 February 2022

Architect of US peace plan blames Palestinians for violence

UNITED NATIONS — The chief architect of the U.S. blueprint to resolve the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday blamed Pa...
2:27 7 February 2022

Israeli troops hurt, 3 Palestinians killed in new violence

JERUSALEM — A spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence on Thursday left at least three Palestinians killed and a dozen Israeli troops wounded in a rash o...
11:12 6 February 2022

Meeting between Sudan leader, Netanyahu debated in Sudan

CAIRO — A surprise meeting between Sudan's leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stirred controversy in Sudan on Tuesday, with the gove...
16:30 4 February 2022

Muslim nations reject Trump’s Mideast plan in Saudi meeting

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Days after Gulf Arab states expressed their support for President Donald Trump's efforts at resolving the Israeli-Palest...
15:23 3 February 2022

China’s Israel envoy compares virus travel bans to Holocaust

JERUSALEM — China's acting ambassador to Israel apologized on Sunday after comparing the closure of several national borders to Chinese citizens amid ...
19:44 2 February 2022

Palestinians protest Trump plan, Gaza militants fire rockets

JERUSALEM — Palestinians held demonstrations across the region Friday to protest President Donald Trump's Middle East initiative, while militants in t...
16:10 31 January 2022

Gulf Arabs back Trump’s Mideast efforts, but not peace plan

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A tectonic shift in relations quietly underway for years now was on full display as representatives of Gulf Arab states ...
13:18 30 January 2022

Israel postpones move to annex large parts of West Bank

JERUSALEM — Israel has postponed a move to annex large parts of the West Bank, a government minister said Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Benjam...
18:27 29 January 2022

Trump peace plan delights Israelis, enrages Palestinians

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East plan Tuesday, winning immediate praise from a beaming Israeli Prime Minister...
20:51 28 January 2022

Trump hosts Israeli leaders who call his peace plan historic

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted Israel’s prime minister and his chief rival Monday at the White House on the eve of unveiling a long-awaite...
22:19 27 January 2022

Auschwitz survivors warn of rising anti-Semitism 75 years on

OSWIECIM, Poland — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of its liberation, r...
14:11 27 January 2022

Bloomberg vows steadfast commitment to US aid for Israel

NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg on Sunday made his case for the presidency to fellow Jewish Americans, vowing not to revisit U.S. aid to Israel -- an app...
22:32 26 January 2022

Israeli backpacker jailed in Russia files for pardon

MOSCOW — An Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges has submitted a petition to be pardoned by President Vladimir Putin.
15:42 26 January 2022

Politics weigh heavily in Trump’s Mideast peace plan

WASHINGTON — A blueprint the White House is rolling out to resolve the decades-long conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is as much about po...
15:42 25 January 2022

Trump: Mideast peace plan likely rolled out in days

JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he'll likely release the long-awaited White House Mideast peace plan before his meeting early ne...
23:11 23 January 2022

Key quotes from world leaders at Holocaust forum

JERUSALEM — The presidents of France and Germany warned of rising anti-Semitism. Israeli and American leaders lashed out at Iran. Russia's president t...
20:15 23 January 2022