Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied ...

Few nomenclatural matters are as fraught as the rivalrous toponyms Israel and Palestine, though their opposition is largely a ...

In 1947, after the United Nations split Palestine into two parts, one for Jews and the other for Arabs, the Zionists proclaimed the State of Israel in 1948 and expelled the Arabs from Palestine ...

Standing at the site of the planned settlement in Maale Adumim on Thursday, Smotrich, a settler himself, said Prime Minister ...

Israel's far-right Minister for Finance Bezalel Smotrich has announced that work will start on a long-delayed settlement to ...

Among the Jewish heritage sites near biblical Jericho are the Hasmonean Winter Palaces, King Herod’s Third Palace, a Byzantine-era synagogue dating back to the 6th or 7th Century CE, ritual baths, a ...

The pressure on Israel to relinquish control of Gaza and West Bank was partially successful in that Israel appeared to concede to the principle of a two-state settlement without actually letting go.