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U.S., Israel Raise Hopes for Mideast Peace Restart
(JERUSALEM) — The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from...
Israeli Seeks Interim Deal with Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at...
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...
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
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...
LIFE Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945
Some photographs are so much of their time that, as years pass, they acquire an air of genuine authority — about an event, a person, a place — and even, perhaps,...
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U. S. effort for Mideast talks elicits praise, reservations
JERUSALEM -- Wrapping up his fourth Holy Land trip in three months, Secretary of State John F. Kerry voiced optimism Thursday that his low-profile campaign to relaunch...
An audacious plan at the Western Wall
JERUSALEM -- In a city where three major faiths guard their holy places with quarrelsome zeal and moving a single stone can have deep religious and geopolitical implications, a...
Israel warns Syria to halt attacks after exchange of fire in the Golan Heights
JERUSALEM -- In blunt language marking a turn away from diplomatic caution, Israel warned the Syrian government Tuesday that it'' would suffer the consequences'' if it...
Israeli, Syrian troops trade fire in Golan Heights
JERUSALEM -- Israeli military and Syrian regular army troops exchanged fire early Tuesday along the cease-fire line in the occupied Golan Heights, an area that has become a...
