The White House ran into static with Israel on Monday on a series issues ranging from the status of the Western Wall to President Trump’s promise to move the American Embassy.Source Link:... Read more »

For a former foreign correspondent, the play by J. T. Rogers conjures that vanished moment in 1993 when Israelis and Palestinians seemed on the road to peace.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/theater/seeing-oslo-remembering-hope.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

A shake-up of the Israel Broadcasting Authority has been decades in the making, but the way it is unfolding appears chaotic and uncertain.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/world/middleeast/israel-news-mabat-lehadashot.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

Rejecting a video that Israel said showed the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti cheating on his hunger strike, Fadwa Barghouti said the protest was gaining momentum.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/middleeast/marwan-barghouti-hunger-strike-palestinians-israel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

Palestinian leaders denounced videos that appear to show Marwan Barghouti, who organized the strike to demand better conditions in Israeli jails, eating cookies and candy in his cell.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/world/middleeast/videos-show-palestinian-hunger-strike-leader-snacking-israel-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

Some of the president’s supporters worry that the White House is listening too closely to Arab and Palestinian arguments and diluting support for Israel’s government.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/world/middleeast/palestine-israel-trump-abbas-adelson.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

The president will also visit Rome to meet Pope Francis this month, before attending major international summit meetings in Europe.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/politics/trump-to-visit-saudi-arabia-and-israel-in-first-foreign-trip.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

Dorit Rabinyan hopes Americans will read her prizewinning novel, ‘All the Rivers,’ for its story, and not the controversy surrounding it in Israel.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/books/its-complicated-the-path-of-an-israeli-palestinian-love-story.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »

The militant group that has engaged in violent resistance against Israel is pushing for closer ties to Egypt and says it would accept a provisional Palestinian state.Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/world/middleeast/hamas-fatah-palestinians-document.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Read more »