Israel

JERUSALEM Retired general Yair Golan spent a significant part of his military career serving in the occupied West Bank, protecting Jewish settlements. Today, he is one of their most vocal critics. Golan, a former deputy military…

TEL AVIV Three Israelis were shot near the Israeli settlement of Homesh in the West Bank, one of whom died of his wounds, the country's emergency medical services (MDA) reported on Thursday. "MDA EMTs and Paramedics are providing…

JERUSALEM The Israeli government on Wednesday said it was donating 1 million coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX program. The Foreign Ministry said the AstraZeneca vaccines would be transferred in the coming weeks, a…

JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday defended his soldiers who shot dead an injured Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem. "The officers acted outstandingly, exactly as is required from fighters in an…

LONDON UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid say they will do everything to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Truss and Lapid wrote a joint article for The Daily Telegraph ahead of the Monday…

JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday he reached a "good and stable" perception with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the situation in Syria. "I found President Putin attentive to Israel's safety needs,"…

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) Israeli Forced to continue to be close to shore due to restrictions on effective engines, the men complain they have to seek a catch from overfished shallow waters with declining stocks. "If we…

JERUSALEM Israel announced today that it approved registration as West Bank residents for some 4,000 Palestinians who have been living for years in the Israeli-occupied territory without official status. The decision affects 2,800…

JERUSALEM An Israeli has been arrested in Dubai on a drugs charge and may seek repatriation for any trial or resulting prison term, his lawyer said today in a case that could test fledgling relations between Israel and the United Arab…