Israeli leaders have sharply criticized Bill Clinton over comments the former U.S. president made this week calling Russian immigrants in Israel an obstacle to peace. Clinton, who is generally a well-loved figure in Israel for his efforts to broker a...

Hamas has declared its objection to the recent relaunch of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas does not represent the Palestinian people and is not authorized to negotiate on its...

Israel has granted honorary citizenship to an Indian woman who braved gunfire to save an Israeli boy from the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed both of his parents. Sandra Samuel rescued 2-year-old Moshe Holtzberg from a Jewish centre targeted by...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told an inquiry into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla that Turkey had ignored warnings and appeals “at the highest level” many days before the fatal clash. Netanyahu was the...

British musician Elton John delighted Israelis by giving a concert in Tel Aviv after a string of cancelations by other world-famous artists. The singer resisted a growing wave of calls from pro-Palestintian activists to boycott the concert and played...

The most striking observation of diplomats negotiating with the Iranians was the gulf between the belligerent rhetoric pouring out of Tehran in recent days and the intense but more nuanced conversations inside the Geneva villa. It was unclear before...

All our Thanksgiving weekends were touched with sadness as news from Mumbai interrupted what should have been cheery days watching football and spending time with family. The details of the perpetrators’ motivation and planning are still being worked...

In her article “The Role (or Non Role) of Women in Religion,” Morny Joy sets out on an exploration of the development (or non-development) of women’s identities within their faith traditions, specifically considering the “official roles” women...

Blogs exemplify the best and worst attributes of the Internet (and human nature). At their worst, blogs can be untruthful, bad sources of news and gossip. But without the profit motive, the need for immediacy, and the thirst for conflict, blogs can also...

Israeli forces killed 17 Palestinians, most of them civilians, in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip otoday, medical officials and witnesses said.