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Israel’s Islamics

UMM AL-FAHM, Israel — It’s time for noon prayers in this Israeli Arab city, and a jumble of sneakers piles up outside the doors of a mosque on the top […]

Again: Reports of Shalit’s release

JERUSALEM — Amid a flurry of media reports that after more than three years of deadlock, Hamas may agree this week to release St.-Sgt. Gilad Shalit, President Shimon...

Diaspora support for Israeli-Arab causes

NEW YORK — When the Reform movement passed a resolution endorsing advocacy for Israeli Arabs, it wasn’t the first time an American Jewish group had backed the cause of...

PA says it will declare statehood

JERUSALEM — Frustrated by a lack of progress toward statehood, the Palestinians are considering taking their case to the UN. PA President Mahmoud Abbas had hopes a more...

Abbas’ threat to resign sparks fears

JERUSALEM — Just as he hoped it would, PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ threat to resign has concentrated the minds. Both Israel’s prime minister and the US president are...

Israel arrests settler for terrorist acts

By Yaakov Katz & Abe Selig, JPost JERUSALEM —— The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Police announced on Sunday, Nov. 1, that they had arrested an...

Insiders insist that Obama-Netanyahu relationship is smoother

WASHINGTON — With the major knots that bedeviled US-Israel ties this summer largely behind them, US, Israeli and American Jewish leaders say the relationship between...

Goldstone impedes peace

JERUSALEM — One of the unintended consequences of the UN’s Goldstone report on the Gaza war is that it has made peace in the Middle East less likely, at least...

Temple Mount erupts in riots

JERUSALEM — Tensions between Israelis and Arabs simmered this week as Arab rioters clashed with Israeli police and Palestinian leaders accused Israel of trying to...

Shalit video: Pressure for a deal

JERUSALEM — The release of the video showing captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit alive and apparently healthy is likely to raise the pressure on the Netanyahu...