US Secretary of State John Kerry (R), seen with Palestinian Chief of Negotiator Saeb Erekat in Ramallah on May 23, 2013(©POOL/AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take “hard decisions”...
May 24, 2013 11:56 am
Peggy Cidor on the stairwell leading to her Jerusalem apartment after vandals spray-painted slogans on May 20, 2013(©AFP)
The stairwell and door to the apartment of a woman active in promoting egalitarian prayer at Jerusalem’s Western...
May 20, 2013 2:21 pm
View of the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 10, 2013(©AFP)
Israel on Monday announced it was cancelling a United Nations delegation scheduled to begin an investigative mission in Jerusalem’s...
May 20, 2013 11:54 am
Israeli soldiers take part in exercises in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, May 6, 2013(©AFP/File)
Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said...
May 20, 2013 5:21 am
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting in his office on May 13, 2013 in Jerusalem(©Pool/AFP/File)
Israeli taxpayers, already fuming at a draft belt-tightening budget which seeks to slash spending and hike...
May 17, 2013 6:21 pm
Israelis take part in Jerusalem's annual gay pride parade on July 28, 2011(©AFP/File)
In openly displaying his homosexuality while serving as an Orthodox rabbi, Ron Yosef has broken a major taboo in the closed religious world that he...
May 17, 2013 9:06 am
The United States intervention in the Middles East has become increasingly common since the end of the Second World War. Prior to this there was very little attention paid by the US to Arab governed states. At that time the United States had...
June 25, 2012 10:30 am
In 1947 the UK abandoned efforts to reconcile Palestine’s Arabs and Jews and turned the problem over to the new UN, which proposed dividing the territory roughly in half. The Jews established the State of Israel shortly after the British...
June 25, 2012 10:22 am
At the end of the First World War, the Arab Palestinians revolted against their previous rulers the Ottomans and this was supported by the British. The British had also declared in the Balfour Treaty of 1917 that the Jewish should have a national...
June 25, 2012 10:14 am
The People of Gaza have historically clashed with Israel, but there was a marked return to violence in March of 2012. The Israeli forces had a number of targets that they considered threats to the relative stability of the area. Although tensions...
June 25, 2012 10:03 am
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