And yet Israel’s ultranationalists have been able to take advantage of the changing political landscape in Israel over the past few decades and the fragile multiparty system to wield disproportionate ...

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip is likely to ...

Earleen Fisher, an editor and writer whose career across five decades with The Associated Press gave her a front-row seat to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tapping the brakes on claims of success by President Biden, President-elect Trump and partners in the Middle East that a ceasefire and hostage release ...

Israel and Hamas appear close to a cease-fire deal to end more than 15 months of devastating fighting in Gaza, though it's facing something of a last-minute crisis. The agreement, which has hit a ...

Board of Education decision that banned segregation in public schools. Around the same historical period, Israel instituted a divided education system based on nationality and religious observance ...

Israel’s short-term security prospects have ... deep divisions remain. Fatah, the party of Yasser Arafat that rules the West Bank, this week accused Hamas of sacrificing the interests of the ...

But this is hardly new. The PA was created by Israel and Yasser Arafat in the wake of the Oslo Accords precisely as a repressive apparatus subcontracted by Israel to repress any and all resistance ...

The most interesting detail of the hostage and cease-fire deal that Israeli and Hamas officials agreed to Wednesday lies neither in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for ...

At the time of writing, the deal between Israel and Hamas for a hostage release and temporary ceasefire in Gaza has not, despite much fanfare around the world, actually been signed and sealed.

Mediators said Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause the fighting in Gaza starting Sunday after 15 months of war and to begin exchanging dozens of hostages held there for Palestinians imprisoned ...