Israeli Settlements

2 killings shatter relative calm between Israelis, Palestinians

2013-04-30 08:43:00

JERUSALEM -- Tensions rose Tuesday between Israelis and Palestinians after two separate killings -- one by each side -- shattered what had been a period of relative calm in recent months. At a northern West Bank hitchhiking stop, an Israeli settler...

Anthony Lewis dies at 85; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the New York Times, taking up...

Obama says Palestinian state still a viable option

2013-03-21 07:41:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- President Obama met with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank on Thursday in search of hopeful signs for the stalled peace process and declared that a sovereign state of Palestine beside Israel is still viable. Following a long...

Low expectations for Obama's Israel visit

2013-03-19 00:00:00

President Obama will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for his first visit since being elected in 2008. We wish him the best, but frankly, we have very low expectations. Indeed, it's hard to figure out why he's making the trip at all. The peace process...

Why is Obama going to Israel?

2013-03-19 00:00:00

President Obama is visiting Israel this week, the first foreign trip of his second term. Some commentators have criticized the tour as a diversion from the president's intention to pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region. Why go to Israel now, they ask,...

Letters: Obama's Israel bias

2013-03-12 00:00:00

Re "The Israel trip," Opinion, March 8 Ami Ayalon's suggestions to President Obama as he prepares for his trip to Israel make the assumption that the United States should continue in its role as mediator between the Israelis and the Palestinians....

Israel undermining own security with settlements, allies warn

2013-03-01 02:00:00

As Israel pursues an expanded settlement agenda in Palestinian territory, even its friends are beginning to sound like its adversaries. The European Union issued a damning report this week, calling the Israeli government’s construct-and-control...

Review: 'The Law in These Parts' takes on Israel's legal system

2012-12-14 00:00:00

"The Law in These Parts" sounds like the title of a routine western, maybe something starring Tom Mix or Johnny Mack Brown, but it turns out to be considerably more compelling and provocative. Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz and winner of the World...

Israeli foreign minister to be indicted on breach-of-trust charge

2012-12-13 09:04:00

JERUSALEM� -- Israel’s attorney general said Thursday he would indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of fraud and breach of trust but would drop a more serious money-laundering case that had loomed over the right-wing lawmaker’s...

Controversial Israel housing settlement units greenlighted

2012-12-17 11:46:00

JERUSALEM -- Israel gave a green light Monday to 1,500 new units of Jewish housing in the Ramat Shlomo development in the northern Jerusalem area, an expansion that had triggered a diplomatic rift with the U.S. after it was first announced during a 2010...

Israel continues West Bank expansion steps

2012-12-25 11:14:00

JERUSALEM -- The Jerusalem district planning committee has granted approval to build another 1,200 housing units in Gilo, expanding the Jewish neighborhood built on Jerusalem-area land seized by Israel in 1967. It was the latest in a series of similar...

Palestinians pitch tents in area Israel plans to develop

2013-01-11 10:02:00

JERUSALEM — About 250 Palestinian activists set up dozens of tents Friday on a large plot of land east of Jerusalem that Israel has designated as the site of a new settlement. The Palestinians hope the tent village — called Bab al-Shams,...

Students from the Ariel University, located at the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ariel, protest in front of the US Consulate before a visit by US President Barack Obama in Jerusalem.

2013-03-19 00:00:00

Palestinian stone throwers clash with Israeli forces following a weekly demonstration against Israeli settlement expansion, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, on October 29, 2011.

2011-10-28 14:51:39

A masked Palestinian youth fires a tear gas canister at Israeli soldiers using an improvised firing mechanism during clashes following a demonstration against Israeli settlements and its separation wall, in the West Bank village of Nilin.

2011-06-03 00:00:00