Palestinian Stabs Tel Aviv Bus Passengers, Is Shot Fleeing
A Palestinian man stabbed at least seven people on a Tel Aviv bus during morning rush hour, deepening months of politically motivated violence. Four people were seriously wounded and three were...
View ArticleNetanyahu Faces Test of Party Strength Ahead of Israeli Election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party selects its March 17 parliamentary election ticket tomorrow in a race that may shape peacemaking with the Palestinians. While Netanyahu’s...
View ArticlePalestinians Apply to Join War-Crimes Tribunal in Statehood Bid
The Palestinian Authority took action to press war-crimes charges against Israel, drawing veiled threats of retaliation from the Israeli government and condemnation from the U.S. Palestinian President...
View ArticleNetanyahu Defeat Predicted by Lapid as Israel Plans March Vote
Israel’s outgoing Finance Minister Yair Lapid predicted that the man who fired him, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will be forced from office as a result of the early election he called this week....
View ArticleHamas Cheers Battle for Jerusalem While Focused on Gaza Control
Hamas is hailing kamikaze car crashes in Jerusalem and the stabbing of Jewish settlers in the West Bank with an eye on its Gaza Strip stronghold. Months of Palestinian unrest in contested east...
View ArticleJerusalem Seethes as Competing Claims to Holy Site Turn Violent
Shrouded head to toe in black, the women slowly circled the domed mosque in east Jerusalem’s Old City, chanting, “Allahu akbar,” the Muslim declaration of faith. “This is our home,” said a woman who...
View ArticleIsrael Knesset Debates Vote to Dissolve as Campaign Heats Up
Israel’s parliament debated a bill to dissolve itself that’ll be put to a final vote today, as electioneering intensified ahead of the March 17 ballot for a new legislature. Opposition lawmakers...
View ArticleReligious Discord Menaces as Israel, Palestinians Fail at Peace
An undercurrent of religious strife has burst to the fore in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, threatening to turn a political battle over land into a war of faiths between Muslim and Jew. While...
View ArticleIsrael Closes Temple Mount After Palestinian Shoots Activist
Israel barred access to the Muslim shrines on a contested Jerusalem hilltop for the first time since 2000, as Palestinians accused Israel of taking security measures “tantamount to a declaration of...
View ArticleIsraelis Head to Polls Weary of Netanyahu, Wary of Alternatives
(Bloomberg) -- Israelis head to the ballot box with polls suggesting they’re weary of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, yet wary of choosing a new leader amid mounting security threats and...
View ArticleIsraeli Government Faces Crisis in Clash Over ‘Jewish State’ Law
Draft legislation that would anchor Israel’s status as a Jewish nation-state in the law is headed for parliament, where it could bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. The...
View ArticleIsrael to Reopen Jerusalem Holy Site Amid Tensions
Israel said it will allow limited access to the Muslim shrines on a contested Jerusalem hilltop, after closing it for the first time since 2000 in a move likened by Palestinians to a declaration of...
View ArticleJerusalem Tension Mounts With New Effort to Punish Rock-Throwers
Israel’s cabinet approved a bill that would make it easier to jail stone-throwers for years, as Arab violence swelled over competing claims to a hilltop shrine in Jerusalem’s Old City. While his...
View ArticleNetanyahu Tests Coalition Allies With ‘Jewish State’ Bill
Israel’s cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to enshrine the country’s status as a Jewish nation-state in law, further dividing an already riven coalition. Draft legislation,...
View ArticleJerusalem Tension Mounts With Effort to Punish Violence
Israel’s cabinet approved a bill that would make it easier to jail stone-throwers for years, as Arab violence swelled amid competing claims to a hilltop shrine in Jerusalem’s Old City. While his...
View ArticleNetanyahu Emboldened in Faceoff With Obama Seeing Little to Lose
If there’s one thing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s critics and allies agree on, it’s that he has much to gain on the home front by defying U.S. President Barack Obama. Netanyahu’s...
View ArticleIsrael Boosts Security After Jerusalem Synagogue Attack
Hundreds of police reinforcements fanned out across Jerusalem and concrete barriers were erected in some Arab neighborhoods as Israel tightened security in the city following a deadly Palestinian...
View ArticleArab Suspect in Jerusalem Shooting Killed by Israeli Police
A Palestinian man suspected in the shooting of a prominent Jewish nationalist in Jerusalem was killed by police officers during an overnight arrest raid, Israel police said. The suspect died in a...
View ArticleIsrael Advances Plans for 1,000 Jewish Homes in Jerusalem
The Israeli government decided to advance planning for about 1,000 new homes in Jewish areas of east Jerusalem, a government official said, a move that could shore up support for Prime Minister...
View ArticleNetanyahu Says Jerusalem Forces Boosted
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said additional security forces have been deployed in Jerusalem to counter increasing violence in the city’s Arab neighborhoods that he blamed on Islamic...
View ArticleDeadly Jerusalem Attack Feeds Concerns of Snowballing Unrest
The killing of a three-month old girl in Jerusalem by a Palestinian who rammed his car into a crowded train stop raised Israeli concerns that months of violence in the city would widen. It also spurred...
View ArticleLiberman Losing Israel Kingmaker Crown as Scandal Hits Party
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is known to friends as Evet, his Russian-language birth name. Those less fond have called him “KGB” and “Rasputin,” reflecting his reputation as a tough...
View ArticleIsrael’s Liberman Losing Kingmaker Crown as Scandal Shakes Party
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is known to friends as Evet, his Russian-language birth name. Those less fond have called him “KGB” and “Rasputin,” reflecting his reputation as a tough...
View ArticleIsraeli Peace Agenda Is No Vote Winner for Netanyahu Rivals
Candidates who preach visions of peace will probably lose again in the coming Israeli election as renewed conflict with the Palestinians leaves voters anxious about their personal safety, analysts say....
View Article>Israeli move in east Jerusalem draws US concern
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval Wednesday to build 200 homes in a Jewish area of east Jerusalem, a move that threatened to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into...
View ArticleNetanyahu Faces Test of Party Strength Ahead of Israeli Vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is selecting its March 17 parliamentary election ticket in a race that may shape peacemaking with the Palestinians. While Netanyahu’s leadership...
View ArticleNetanyahu Says He Won’t Allow Palestinian State If Re-Elected
(Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state if he is re-elected, further rolling back his acceptance six years ago of a...
View ArticleIsraeli Soldier Stabbed in Tel Aviv, Palestinian Suspected
A Palestinian teenager stabbed and badly wounded an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station, Israeli officials said, as months of politically motivated...
View ArticleTwo Israelis Killed in Palestinian Stabbing Attacks
Two Israelis were killed by Palestinians in knife attacks in the West Bank and Tel Aviv, as months of politically motivated violence spilled beyond Jerusalem. A 26-year-old woman was killed at a bus...
View ArticleFour Killed in Palestinian Attack at Jerusalem Synagogue
Palestinians killed at least four people in an attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem, Israeli police and emergency services said, in the latest burst of violence that has fueled speculation of a...
View ArticleIsraeli Cabinet moves to define Israel as Jewish
JERUSALEM (AP) — In a move likely to further inflame tensions with Israel's Arab citizens, the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish...
View ArticleNetanyahu Rejects Personal Attack as Rift With U.S. Widens
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at an attack on his character by a top member of the Obama administration, saying he’ll defend Israel’s security against “anonymous sources” who don’t share...
View ArticleIsraeli move in east Jerusalem draws US concern
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli authorities gave preliminary approval Wednesday to build 200 homes in a Jewish area of east Jerusalem, a move that threatened to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into...
View ArticleBibi Accuses Arab Leaders Of Inciting Jerusalem Violence
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians carried out three stabbings Monday in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily accused the country's...
View ArticleNetanyahu accuses Arabs of incitement in wave of stabbings
JERUSALEM — Palestinians carried out three stabbings Monday in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily accused the country's Arab...
View ArticleNetanyahu Wins Flexibility on Peacemaking in Likud Primary Race
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go into March 17 elections heading a Likud party slate that won’t be dominated by opponents of Palestinian statehood. Early returns gave Netanyahu’s...
View ArticleU.S. Doubts Over Netanyahu May Spur ‘Other Steps’ on Peace
(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is weighing a new approach to Middle East peace that may be less supportive of Israel, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised doubts that he would ever accept a...
View ArticleNetanyahu Condemns Backlash at Arabs After Synagogue Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials condemned discrimination directed at the country’s Arab citizens after two Palestinians killed four people at a Jerusalem synagogue this...
View ArticleNetanyahu Tests Coalition Allies With ‘Jewish State’ Proposal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked his cabinet today to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish nation-state in law, challenging members of his already divided coalition who oppose proposed...
View ArticleU.S. Caught Between Europe, Israel as Kerry Meets Palestinians
Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Palestinian officials today as the U.S. seeks to bridge the gap between European and Arab demands for deadlines for the Middle East peace process and Israeli...
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