Jerusalem, Israel News

Bayit Yehudi's Eli Ben-Dahan fights to stay on in roll as reserve duty operations officer for the Artillery Corps.

The Spanish government provided funding between 2009 and 2011 to political NGOs leading the campaigns to delegitimize Israel through demonization, boycotts, lawfare and other forms of political attacks, according to an NGO Monitor report issued on Tuesday.

When Abu Ghosh kindergarten teacher Safa Utman stepped out of her home on Nataf Street on Tuesday morning, she found that all of her family's cars' tires had been slashed, leaving her with no way to get to work.

Police say 28 cars vandalized, houses sprayed with graffiti in Arab village in "price tag" attack; Vandalism contrary to values of democracy, says PM.

Center Field: According to Herzl's utopian novel, "we are duty-bound to increase beauty and wisdom upon the earth until our last breath."

President Shimon Peres will celebrate his 90th birthday Tuesday night at the start of his fifth annual Facing Tomorrow conferee night in Jerusalem, with hundreds of world leaders, dignitaries and famous faces in attendance.

As the hot weather arrives in Gaza, children head to the town of Rafah for summer camp -- not to play sports but to join war games organized by the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, the AFP news agency reports.

Israel has frozen nearly all housing starts in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Housing Minister Uri Ariel said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help US efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians.

Israel intends to appropriate land in Bethlehem to expand the Jerusalem municipal boundaries, a Palestinian NGO revealed Tuesday.

Unknown assailants overnight on Monday punctured the tires of some 28 vehicles in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, police said.

The PLO's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, accused the Israeli government on Monday of officially having declared the death of the "two-state solution".

Israeli President Shimon Peres remains optimistic about peace with Iran, citing historical co-operation, and with Palestine, driven by realities across the Middle East.

In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, touches the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City.

Whenever Dr. Saliba Sarsar returns to his native Jerusalem he makes a point of visiting the Liberty Bell Garden, built in 1976 in honor of the American bicentennial.

Russia, a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.

US President Barack Obama faces what could be a frosty G8 meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday after the Russian leader clashed with the West over plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.

A 75-year-old Palestinian woman has filed a complaint with Israeli police after being assaulted by three Israelis as she waited for a bus in West Jerusalem on Sunday, her son told Ma'an.

A cross-section of luminaries in government, journalism and Israeli society gathered Sunday evening in the capital to inaugurate the Jerusalem Press Club , created to serve as a central hub for foreign journalists based in Israel.

Three weeks after Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid stunned his liberal base by staking out a hardline stance on peace issues, his disappointed lieutenants are coming out in open rebellion.

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi fumes at Israeli diplomat's "verbal and actual rejection of the two-state solution and hence peace."