Israelis block highways in nationwide protests of gov’t’s plan to overhaul judiciary

Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets yesterday and blocked highways leading to Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv as part of countrywide demonstrations against the

Netanyahu says he’s opposed to any interim US-Iran deal on nuclear program

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke

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A real estate deal in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has sent the historic Armenian community there into a panic as residents

On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy

As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half after the first Zionists came to Palestine from Europe, the core

UN to commemorate Palestinians’ 1948 flight from Israel for the first time

For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary

Israelis protest legal changes before nation’s 75th birthday

Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel on Saturday to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government

Israel | Palestinian attacker stabs passengers on Tel Aviv bus

  A Palestinian man stabbed nine people on a bus in central Tel Aviv yesterday, wounding four of them seriously before he was chased down, shot and arrested by Israeli police

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