BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Two of the world’s most persistent conflicts have punctuated debate at the United Nations.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid sees a global battle between centrists and extremists.

A bloc of Arab parties has split ahead of Israel’s fifth elections in less than four years, a move that could dilute the minority’s political influence and aid former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power

As he hits the campaign trail for the fifth time in less than four years, Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing supporters from a strange new vehicle dubbed the “Bibibus" after his popular nickname.

The MSNBC host said it was "not normal" how former U.S. presidents seem to have "some kind of a blanket immunity from prosecution."

An extremist Israeli lawmaker who was once relegated to the margins of Israeli politics is surging in the polls ahead of the country’s November elections

An extremist Israeli lawmaker who was once relegated to the margins of Israeli politics is surging in the polls ahead of the country's November elections.

The independent commission investigating a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Israel last year says then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might be found partly responsible

The independent commission investigating a deadly stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel last year said Tuesday that then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials might be found partly responsible for the disaster. The announcement could harm Netanyahu — who is already on trial for corruption — ahead of Nov. 1 elections in which he hopes to become prime minister again. Netanyahu testified last month that he was not responsible for safety measures at the site.

An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced the Gaza director of a major international charity to 12 years in prison.

Anticipation has been growing all year for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers, Colleen Hoover’s “It Starts With Us.”.

There's a growing debate among Palestinian citizens of Israel about whether having a party in the governing coalition made any difference for them at all.

Israel's prime minister says the West is letting Iran manipulate talks over an emerging “bad deal” to curb Tehran's nuclear capabilities.

Symbolically and spiritually, the Jordan River in the Middle East is of mighty significance to many as where the Bible says Jesus got baptized.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a memoir coming out this fall.

Israel’s caretaker prime minister appears to have taken a gamble with his preemptive strike against Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza, less than three months before he is to compete in general elections to retain his job.

Israel’s caretaker prime minister took a gamble with his preemptive strike against Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza, less than three months before he is to compete in general elections to retain his job. Yair Lapid had counted on Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers to stay out of the fight, thus enabling Israel to weaken Hamas’ smaller sister group while avoiding a full-blown escalation. Hamas remained on the sidelines as Israeli jets pounded targets in Gaza, killing two Islamic Jihad leaders in targeted attacks, and Israel’s missile shield intercepted many of the hundreds of rockets fired by Islamic Jihad.

The fighting began with Israel's killing of a senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a strike.

Israeli jets pounded militant targets in Gaza early Saturday as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the coastal enclave killed at least 11 people.

Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are exchanging fire in the worst bout of cross-border violence since an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas last year.

Israeli jets pounded militant targets in Gaza as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the coastal enclave killed at least 10 people, including a senior militant and a 5-year-old girl

Israel’s caretaker prime minister and Jordan’s king have met in the Jordanian capital, Amman

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has testified that he wasn’t to blame for the events that led to a deadly stampede at a holy site in northern Israel last year, the worst civilian disaster in the country’s history

President Joe Biden says he raised the “outrageous” murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who U.S. intelligence officials say ordered his killing.

Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid stood side-by-side and declared they would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power.

The White House says President Joe Biden will try to limit physical contact during his Middle East trip because of concern about rising COVID-19 cases.

President Joe Biden has opened a Mideast visit by offering anxious Israeli leaders strong reassurances of his determination to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

President Joe Biden's visit to the Middle East comes as the region is experiencing dramatic changes and struggling to address deep problems.

The former Israeli prime minister wants his old job back. President Joe Biden’s visit will offer an opportunity to make a cleaner break with the past.

The leaders of two parties in Israel’s outgoing government coalition announced that they would merge ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The leaders of two parties in Israel’s outgoing government coalition announced  that they would merge ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Israel’s prime minister has expressed hope that his country will establish formal diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia.

Joe Biden took office looking to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

A key witness in former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has taken the stand

A key witness in former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has taken the stand.

A key witness in the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has testified that her billionaire boss ordered her to deliver gifts of champagne, cigars, and expensive jewelry to the then-Israeli premier in a scandal at the center of the country's political crisis. The expensive gifts lavished upon the former Israeli leader by wealthy friends are the subject of one of the three corruption cases against Netanyahu. The Netanyahus “love gifts, and they love pink champagne and cigars for Bibi,” Hadas Klein, the longtime assistant of one of the former premier's friends, testified Tuesday, using the prime minister’s nickname.

Israel’s caretaker prime minister has departed for a day-long visit to Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron

Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities.

Israel’s caretaker prime minister has held his first Cabinet meeting since taking over as leader, promising a functional government amid the political instability

Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself, sending the country to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years.

The collapse offers a potential second chance to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose right-wing Likud party is performing well in local polls.

Israel’s prime minister has convened what is likely his last Cabinet meeting as premier, with parliament expected to dissolve itself this week, triggering new elections in the fall

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has thanked Turkey for its cooperation in foiling attacks against Israelis and warned Israel would not “sit idly by’ in the face of threats from Iran to its citizens.

The leaders of Israel’s broad-based but severely weakened coalition government have thrown in the towel this week, after barely 12 months in office.

In a 10-year political career, Yair Lapid has transformed himself from upstart political novice to feisty opposition leader to the savvy operator who toppled longtime leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

In a 10-year political career, Yair Lapid has transformed himself from upstart political novice to feisty opposition leader to the savvy operator who toppled longtime leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The country will head to the polls for its fifth elections in three years.

The country will head to the polls for its fifth elections in three years.

The country will head to the polls for its fifth elections in three years.

The former Israeli prime minister is hoping for decisive outcome in the upcoming Knesset elections by galvanizing the country’s right wing.

An Israeli Cabinet minister says the country's outgoing coalition government will fast-track a bill this week to dissolve parliament, setting up the country for its fifth elections in three years.

The diverse coalition crumbled and the nation is now headed to its fifth election in four years

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office announced that his weakened coalition will be disbanded and the country will head to new elections

Israel’s weakened coalition government has announced that it will dissolve parliament and call new elections.

Israel’s weakened coalition government announced Monday that it would dissolve parliament and call new elections, setting the stage for the possible return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another period of prolonged political gridlock. The election will be Israel's fifth in three years, and it will put the polarizing Netanyahu, who has been the opposition leader for the past year, back at the center of the political universe. While opinion polls project Netanyahu, who is now on trial, as the front-runner, it is far from certain that his Likud party can secure the required parliamentary majority to form a new government.

A vote in the Knesset and a protest on Jerusalem Day suggest that Benjamin Netanyahu’s influence endures.

An Israeli court has found a Gaza aid worker guilty of several terrorism charges.

President Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Middle East next month with visits to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia.

The Israeli government has failed to pass a bill extending legal protections for settlers in the occupied West Bank.

An Arab Israeli lawmaker who quit the ruling coalition says she is returning to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s 60-member alliance, ending a political crisis that lasted just a few days

Now that he can travel again, Peter Greenberg is resuming “The Royal Tour,” a two-decade-long series that shows off the best tourist spots of a given country.

Joshua Cohen, who won the Pulitzer Prize this week for his novel “The Netanyahus,” says he had another famously divisive political family in mind when he wrote it

Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus,” a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister is limping into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse

The government of Israel’s embattled prime minister is limping into the opening of parliament’s summer session on the verge of collapse.

Israeli police say that the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and a bullet in the mail for the second time this week

Israeli police say that the family of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received a death threat and a bullet in the mail for the second time this week.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's teenage son has received a death threat and bullet in the mail, Israeli officials said Thursday, he second such warning against the Israeli leader's family this week. The threats have come at a time of deep political divisions in Israel. In a major speech on Wednesday night marking Israel's Holocaust memorial day, Bennett had spoken out against the polarization in Israel, urging citizens not to let internal divisions rip society apart.

Israel’s prime minister is warning Jews not to let internal divisions tear their society apart

As Naftali Bennett’s fragile coalition teeters on the brink, Benjamin Netanyahu looks to be the beneficiary.

The resignation of Idit Silman stripped Israel’s already fragile coalition of its majority and raised the prospect of a fresh round of elections.

An Israeli lawmaker quit the government's wafer-thin ruling coalition over a dispute about Passover matza rules in hospitals on Wednesday, throwing the fragile alliance into disarray without a majority in parliament. Backbencher Idit Silman's departure raises the possibility of new parliamentary elections less than a year after the government took office. While Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government remains in power, it is now hamstrung in the 120-seat parliament and will likely struggle to function.

Extremists are trying to stop the mutual alienation between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens from changing to cautious integration.

Mike Pence spent more than four years standing in President Donald Trump’s shadow, refusing to criticize or allow sunlight between them.

Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in the funeral of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in the central Israel city of Bnei Brak.

Just a year ago, Naftali Bennett was struggling for political survival.

Israel’s parliament has renewed a temporary law dating back to 2003 that bars Israeli citizens from extending citizenship or even residency to Palestinian spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza

Israel's prime minister is assuming the unlikely role of mediator between Russia and Ukraine with his surprise visit to Moscow.

The Israeli tech company NSO Group has filed a libel lawsuit against an Israeli newspaper.

The world’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, but the Biden administration has been racing toward restoring the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the relationship between the United States and Israel is “ironclad.”

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is flying to the Gulf state of Bahrain.

An Israeli newspaper says police allegedly used spyware on the phones of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son and members of his inner circle.

Israeli media reports say police have used sophisticated spyware against a key witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to hack journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established.

Israel's national police force says it has found evidence pointing to improper use of sophisticated spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens’ phones.

Saudi Arabia has used the Pegasus spyware to spy on activists, state critics, and foreign officials.

Israel's Cabinet approved Sunday the launch of a state investigation into an affair involving the purchase of submarines and other warships from Germany, a case that has embroiled close confidants of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The graft scandal surrounds a possible conflict of interest and bribery involving a $2 billion purchase of naval vessels from Germany's Thyssenkrupp that implicated some of Netanyahu's closest associates. The Cabinet authorized establishing a state investigation into the case by vote.

A retired Israeli general has emerged as one of the country's most vocal critics against settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s attorney general says he is launching an investigation into the police’s use of phone surveillance technology following reports that investigators tracked targets without proper authorization.

Israel signed a three billion euro ($3.4 billion) deal on Thursday to buy three cutting edge submarines from Germany, the defense ministry announced. The Dakar-class diesel-electric submarines will be produced by German manufacturer Thyssenkrupp and are expected to be delivered within nine years, the ministry said. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the procurement "will upgrade the capabilities of the Israeli Navy, and will contribute to Israel’s security superiority in the region.”

Pfizer's chief executive, Albert Bourla, has been awarded the prestigious Genesis Prize for his efforts in leading the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to a report in Israeli media, Israel has hacked activists, mayors and other Israeli citizens without judicial oversight using spyware from the controversial NSO Group.

Israeli lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the police’s alleged use of sophisticated spyware on protesters and other citizens.

Arab politician Mansour Abbas broke a longstanding taboo when he joined Israel’s governing coalition last year.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who's on trial for corruption, is in talks to reach a plea bargain. If it goes forward, it could force him to take a break from politics.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is negotiating a plea deal in his corruption case, a person involved in the talks said Sunday. The deal, which could be signed as early as this week, could usher Netanyahu off the Israeli political stage for years, paving the way for a leadership race in his Likud party and shaking up Israeli politics. Any deal could spare Netanyahu an embarrassing and protracted trial over an issue that has gripped the nation and risks tarnishing his legacy.

Kissinger's realpolitik approach brought a measure of stability and led to Israel's survival, Martin Indyk argues.

Israel’s fragile governing coalition is facing a crisis over tree-planting on disputed land in the Negev desert