Articles
Critics Assail Israeli Silence on Arab Peace Plan
(JERUSALEM) — On the surface, the Arab League's improved peace initiative offers Israel everything it ever dreamed of — normal relations with an entire region...
Arab League Sweetens Israel-Palestinian Peace Plan
(JERUSALEM) — The Arab League's decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin...
Lawyer: Palestinian Hunger Striker to End Fast
(JERUSALEM) — A Palestinian prisoner who refused food for months is expected to end his hunger strike on Tuesday after a deal was reached with Israeli...
From Jerusalem to Boston: Learning to Live With the Threat of Urban Violence
The Daily Worry: how I learned to live with bombs in Turkey and Israel
Israel Detains 5 Women for Prayer at Western Wall
(JERUSALEM) — Israeli police have detained five women while praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
West Bank Turmoil: An Unexpected Death Raises the Tension
Street protests broke out in West Bank last week in support of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. They focused on the plight of four inmates who had been on...
Articles from Around the Web
Palestinians curb Israeli reporters' access to West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians gathered here Wednesday to commemorate the day they call al-Naqba, or the catastrophe, when the state of Israel was born in 1948....
VIDEO: Two strip for choir speeding protest
Members of a WI group record their own version of Jerusalem in a campaign to improve safety on a main road in Cambridgeshire. ...
WI Jerusalem plea for roundabout fix
Members of a WI group record their own version of Jerusalem as part of a campaign to improve safety on a main road near their Cambridgeshire village. ...
Standoff at Western Wall Over Praying by Women
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews joined a protest at the Jerusalem holy site, creating a standoff with a group of women praying there in garments traditionally worn by men. ...
