A new edition of the Lonely Planet book on "Israel & the Palestinian Territories" can help you plan a trip to the area - and can even help you explain to others why you're going.
Israel has responded to a British request that it review the case of a British journalist killed by an Israeli soldier, seeking more information from London, officials said Thursday.
Israel is jailing soldiers who disobeyed orders Tuesday to evict Jewish settlers in Hebron.
Israel and Hamas have resumed Egyptian-mediated contacts over a prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants more than a year ago, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
KFAR ADUMIM, West Bank -- From his stone balcony, Dan Tirza looks out over a rippling expanse of Judean desert, the biblical landscape of the Jewish people. A student of that history, the retired army colonel is a leading actor in Israel's modern story of statehood, conquest and the volatile task...
This Sudanese refugee and some 57 others who crossed into Israel illegally from Egypt were given a temporary home in Ibim, an aliyah youth village run by the Jewish Agency for Israel on Sderot's outskirts.
Israeli police, using sledge hammers, chain saws and power clippers, stormed a building in Hebron and dragged out hundreds who had holed up there illegally. Also Israel's PM denies a report that he's considering a land-swap deal with Palestinians.
An Israeli columnist argues that in recent years it has become clear that by a two-state solution, Israel's Arabs mean two states for Palestinians. Before you continue...
Israel’s safety and security is affected not only by external threats but by its ability to be a stable, multicultural democracy that assures the rights of its Arab citizens, the New Israel Fund's Larry Garber writes.
Israel has plunged into a bitter debate over the source of authority for many of its soldiers after a group of troops refused orders to evacuate hardline Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.