Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said there was nothing for peace talks to build on in Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the U.S. Congress.Read More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his speech at the United States Congress on Tuesday by reiterating Israel’s strong ties with the U.S., saying “Israel has no better friend than the U.S. and the U.S. has no better friend than Israel.”Read More
Israeli director Joseph Cedar won the best screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday for his film “Footnote.”Read More
A measure seeking to ban male circumcision will appear on the November ballot in San Francisco.Read More
As he arrives in Washington on May 19 for a crucial visit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to maximize his impact with a tour that will hit four American bases of power: the administration, Congress, the media and the Jewish community.Read More
President Obama said the future state of Palestine should be based on the pre-1967 border with mutually agreed land swaps with Israel.Read More
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. endorses the Palestinians’ demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.Read More
President Obama’s advisers have said time and again that the major speech he is to deliver Thursday will not be about Israel, but about the Middle East.Read More
President Obama extended a freeze on Syrian assets to the country’s government and its entire leadership.Read More
Jewish author Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize for the body of work in his more than 50-year-long career.Read More