Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it was an “Islamic duty” to fight for the “liberation of Palestine” in a landmark speech Friday amid rising tensions with archenemy Israel.
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An Israeli court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appear for the opening of his criminal trial in Jerusalem on Sunday.
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Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday exhibited a recently uncovered, unusual series of 2,000-year-old chambers carved out of the bedrock beneath the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem.
Read moreAn Israeli district court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist of murder in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, a case that had sent shock waves through Israel and helped fuel months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was nabbed by a team of Israeli spies after years on the run in Argentina, ending a long manhunt.
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With the fate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the line, Israel’s Supreme Court began discussions Sunday on whether the embattled leader can form a new government while facing criminal indictments.
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Arab foreign ministers will hold talks Thursday on Israel’s U.S.-backed plans to annex key parts of the occupied West Bank.
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In litigation challenging a Texas law blocking state agencies from hiring companies boycotting Israel, a Fifth Circuit panel ordered the case be dismissed Monday but declined to decide if the law is constitutional.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz said Monday that they have forged a deal to form a coalition government, ending months of political paralysis and averting what would have been a fourth election in just over a year.
Read moreWhen Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group.
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A Lebanese military judge Tuesday appealed a verdict by the military tribunal that ordered the release of a Lebanese-American held since September on charges of working for an Israeli-backed militia two decades ago, state-run National News Agency said.
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Israel’s ex-military chief Benny Gantz was to be nominated Monday to try to form a government, but talks continued with his bitter rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on an emergency alliance to combat coronavirus.
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The city of Bethlehem was on lockdown Friday, after the first Palestinian cases of the deadly coronavirus were discovered there.
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Israel’s political future remained up in the air Tuesday as preliminary results and exit polls from Israel’s third election in less than a year indicated embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leader would fall short of securing the parliamentary majority needed to form a government.
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Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced an uncertain path to staying in office Tuesday, even as preliminary results showed his Likud party pulling ahead of its opponents in the country’s third election in less than a year.
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Israelis were voting Monday in the country’s unprecedented third election in less than a year to decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite his upcoming criminal trial on corruption charges.
Read moreIslamic Jihad fired a fresh volley of rockets and mortars from Gaza toward Israel Monday, after a flareup that triggered school, road and train closures in southern Israel.
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Israeli prosecutors on Thursday announced the opening of a criminal investigation of the failed startup of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenger Benny Gantz, shaking up the final days of n a bitter and tumultuous election campaign.
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The criminal trial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin March 17, court officials said Tuesday, shaking up the final stretch of a contentious election campaign and hurting the longtime Israeli leader’s hopes of forming a new government after the vote.
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Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz is vowing to form a government that will include neither indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the predominantly Arab parties in Parliament.
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