Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.

From the arrowheads used by a Greek army to menorahs, the city offers antiquities enthusiasts many opportunities to celebrate ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that Israel’s military will soon launch an invasion of Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip. More than 1 million Palestinians, now on the verge of ...

“We want Israel to be our synagogue. … OK, well, Israel’s a state. It’s not a synagogue, and it’s going to make a whole set of calculations,” said Tal Becker, an Israeli lawyer and diplomatic adviser, ...

What the backlash to a Taylor Swift documentary reveals about Jewish visibility and antisemitism in popular culture ...

President Trump’s announcement that he recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel came 68 years after Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed it as the “eternal capital” of the Jewish state. On ...

The state of Israel has a history of great violence, visited on it by its enemies and in return by Israel's own intelligence services and military. In "Rise and Kill First," journalist and author ...

Since Israel was founded in 1948, 11 people have served as prime minister. Power has shifted back and forth between the Labor and Likud parties, traditionally the country’s largest, on seven different ...

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To be vigilant—to live without illusions about the ever-present threat of annihilation—was a primary value at No. 4 Haportzim Street, once the Jerusalem address of the Netanyahu family. This wariness ...

All weekend long, in countless commentaries in the media, in painful telephone calls with friends in Israel, came the march of analogies, the inevitable attempts to make sense of the incomprehensible.