Middle East

A senior Palestinian Authority negotiator and a perennial critic of Israel was spotted recently at an Israeli hospital. Saeb Erekat earlier this year blasted US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman for claiming that Jewish communities built in beyond the pre-1967 Green Line were part of Israel, including Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Erekat, who serves […]

Israel’s air force hit the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers early Wednesday after Palestinians fired at southern Israel on Monday, the army said. Late Tuesday night the military said that an undefined “projectile” was fired from Gaza towards southern Israel. A spokeswoman told AFP that it was “very probably” a rocket but that it was not

[video:2036146] Tzvi Sukkot, Chairman of the ring-wing Otzma Yehudit organization, was an eyewitness to an occurrence this afternoon during which residents of the community of Yitzhar in Samaria entered the Arab village of Burin. While Israeli media had initially reported that some 40 “masked settlers” had entered the village and “started throwing stones” without providing

The State has agreed with petitioners that an illegal Arab outpost was built on privately owned Jewish land in Samaria. The illegal outpost was built by the Ramadin tribe near the Jewish town of Alfei Menashe in western Samaria. The land in question belongs to the Himnuta organization, a subsidiary of the Jewish National Fund.

Disgraced prime minister questions Trump’s Jerusalem plan Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem on Nov. 17, 2008. Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images Ehud Olmert, on left, with Daniel Kurtzer at NJPAC. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg Ehud Olmert, Israel’s 12th prime minister, had a question for President

An Israeli Arab Knesset member mocked the Israeli flag, Israeli national anthem, and other national symbols of the Jewish state Tuesday, saying that he identified as a “Palestinian” while deriding Israel as an “occupier” since its establishment in 1948. Jamal Zahalka, a five-term veteran MK from the Arab ultra-nationalist Balad party, which became a faction