President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to include discrimination against Jews as a violation of law in certain cases, with an eye toward fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses.
A fragment of wood believed to be from Jesus' manger is back in the Holy Land just in time for Christmas.
Twenty-six people, among them 17 militants and a seven-year-old boy, have been killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza since fighting began Tuesday morning, according to Palestinian health officials.
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar hopes Israel will "make a different decision" and break from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as voters head to the polls on Tuesday.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to annex parts of the West Bank if he wins re-election next week.
The first two Muslim women in Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a trip to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories was canceled once the two lawmakers were denied entry for supporting a boycott of Israel.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib got emotional Friday following her announcement that she would not visit the West Bank to see her 90-year-old grandmother "potentially for the last time" after Israel ultimately reversed its decision to bar the congresswoman from the country.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit Israel after the country granted permission for her to enter the country on humanitarian grounds to visit her family in the West Bank a day after blocking her and fellow Rep. Ilhan Omar from visiting the country.
The two Democratic congresswomen who have been denied entry into Israel responded to the decision by sharply criticizing the Israeli government for preventing their tour.
Israel announced Thursday it was barring the entry of two Democratic US congresswomen after Donald Trump encouraged the move, a remarkable step both by the US President and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to punish political opponents.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to approve a non-binding resolution that opposes the boycott movement against Israel, a measure that won broad bipartisan support but faced pushback from some high-profile progressives.
As the architects of the Trump administration's Palestinian-Israeli peace initiative meet in Bahrain to discuss the economic aspect of their plan -- which aims to attract ideas and boost the Palestinian economy before they reveal their political blueprint at a later date -- those who are supposed to benefit are absent.
Pitching his $50 billion proposal to revitalize the Palestinian economy, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner argued Tuesday that his economic proposal will only succeed if there is a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the Trump administration's vision of the future, Gaza City looks a lot more like Tel Aviv: a bustling metropole with scintillating beaches, beckoning tourists from around the world who have no reason to fear the potential for Israeli airstrikes.
The State Department pushed back on comments by the US ambassador to Israel suggesting that Israel has a right to annex part of the West Bank.
The world's rivers are widely contaminated with antibiotics, according to a new global study, the first of its kind.
The White House announced Sunday afternoon the first part of its Middle East peace proposal, what officials are calling an economic "workshop" to encourage investing capital in the West Bank, Gaza, and the region, a senior administration official tells CNN.
Jared Kushner did not unveil the administration's plan for Middle East peace during a discussion Thursday evening titled "Inside the Trump Administration's Middle East Peace Effort: A Conversation With Jared Kushner."
Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is defending her controversial views on Israel as they come under scrutiny in Washington, telling CNN that "it's not surprising" her positions are generating attention and that she finds it "exciting" to be sparking debate.
The relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is characterized by considerable mistrust and disinterest.
The Israeli military is investigating a case in which a Palestinian man was killed under disputed circumstances near an illegal settler outpost north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Aisha Al-Rabi was driving with her husband, Yacoub, and 8-year-old daughter to their home in the West Bank on a cool Friday night last October. The Palestinian mother of nine needed to hurry back to prepare for an older daughter's upcoming wedding.
Two Israeli soldiers were shot dead Thursday at a bus stop on a main road in the Israeli-controlled part of the West Bank, the Israeli military said.
A 21-year-old pregnant woman was among seven people wounded in a drive-by shooting near the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the West Bank, according to the Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom, known as MDA.
