Roy Eitan, JTA

Israel, arms supplier to Georgia, faces indirect Russian hostility

TEL AVIV — As Russian and Georgian forces battle over South Ossetia, Israel finds itself on the defensive.Though a favored armed supplier for...

Swap muddies the talks to free Shalit

JERUSALEM — The long-awaited resolution to the Lebanese hostage crisis has cast a pall over efforts to retrieve the Israeli soldier held by...

Grim homecoming

JERUSALEM — Two black caskets, laid out by Hezbollah officials on the sun-drenched tarmac of a Lebanese border crossing, unceremoniously put to rest...

Swap: MIAs’ families hope for closure

JERUSALEM — Two years after they disappeared into Lebanese captivity, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are returning to Israel.But it’s unlikely to be...

Truce for now…is war next?

JERUSALEM — While nowhere near coexistence, Israel and Hamas are trying out an accommodation of sorts with an Egyptian-brokered truce in the Gaza...