Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he hopes to reach a full peace deal with Israel within a year, after Israel's prime minister floated the idea of starting with a joint declaration on the contours of a Palestinian state.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he hopes to reach a peace deal with Israel within a year, after reportedly receiving a promise from President Bush to push hard to conclude a Mideast agreement before the end of his term in 2008.
Israel recently authorised a shipment of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Far from the Hollywood glitz of Kabbalah's celebrity acolytes, ordinary people are flocking to Israel's capital of ancient Jewish mysticism this summer on a quest for spiritual meaning.
Arab League envoys paid a historic visit to Israel on Wednesday to present a plan for a regional settlement, saying they were extending "a hand of peace" on behalf of the Arab world.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he hopes to reach a full peace deal with Israel within a year.
JERUSALEM, July 25 -- The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan came to Israel on Wednesday to promote an Arab peace plan in the first visit by official representatives of the Arab League to the Jewish state.
Israel's biggest trade union calls off a general strike after a deal with the government on pay increases.
I recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Israel organized by Americans for Peace Now.
Nate Fish, third baseman for the Israel Baseball League (IBL)’s Tel Aviv Lightning, doesn’t make a habit of checking statistics. It can be counterproductive to get caught up in numbers.