Popular support for Hamas has dropped among Palestinians a month after the end of Operation Protective Edge, but a vast majority of the population supports the resumption of rocket attacks if the Israeli blockade on Gaza is not lifted, a new Palestinian poll ...

Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed, center, and members of the Palestinian Fatah delegation leave the hotel where the negotiations are taking place with Egyptian intelligence mediators aimed at brokering an end to the Gaza conflict on ...

Israel may wish that Gaza's dire situation would push residents of the Strip to rise up against their Hamas rulers, but more than a month into Operation Protective Edge, there are very few indications of that happening. There have been sporadic reports of civil ...

Israeli soldier from the Givati brigade seen during searches in the refugee camps in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 19, 2014. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related Topics. kidnapped ...

IDF soldiers search for three missing teens believed to have been abducted in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related Topics. kidnapped teens ...

As the dramatic saga of three kidnapped Israeli teens drags into another day, the front pages of the Hebrew dailies feature the statements of an unlikely figure, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Haaretz's front page headline summarizes his ...

As the dramatic saga of three kidnapped Israeli teens drags into another day, the front pages of the Hebrew dailies feature the statements of an unlikely figure, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Haaretz's front page headline summarizes his ...

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal waves to Hamas supporters during a rally to commemorate the group's 25th anniversary in Gaza city, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related ...

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal waves to Hamas supporters during a rally to commemorate the group's 25th anniversary in Gaza city, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related ...

David Horovitz David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The … [More] Jerusalem Report (1998-2004). He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to ...

WASHINGTON — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “sincere and authentic” in his condemnation of the Holocaust, said Rabbi Marc Schneier, the American rabbi who garnered the historic statement from the Palestinian leader. Schneier ...

Avi Issacharoff Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israel's Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israel. … [More] He is also a guest commentator on many different radio shows and current affairs programs on television. Until 2012, he ...

Avi Issacharoff Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israel's Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israel. … [More] He is also a guest commentator on many different radio shows and current affairs programs on television. Until 2012, he ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greets his supporters following a trip to Washington DC, on March 20, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90) ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar (unseen) following a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rabat on April 4, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jacquelyn Martin) ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar (unseen) following a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rabat on April 4, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jacquelyn Martin) ...

John Kerry speaking to US Embassy staff in Algiers, Thursday. (photo credit: US State Department). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related Topics. John Kerry · Benjamin Netanyahu · Mahmoud Abbas. US Secretary of State John Kerry ...

Email; Print; Share. Tzipi Livni, left, John Kerry, center, and Saeb Erekat at the State Department last July 30, when the current peace talks began. (Photo credit: State Department). Newsroom. Email the Newsroom · Facebook · Twitter. Related Topics.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday blamed the Palestinians for the deadlock in the peace talks that began last July, rejecting Ramallah's preconditions for extending the American-moderated negotiations past April. “The Palestinians are the ones ...

Iranian nuclear head Ali Akbar Salehi speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in October 2012. (photo credit: CFR screenshot). Writers. Lazar Berman Lazar Berman is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel. Follow or contact: RSS ...