July 3, 2017
4:59 pm

US President Donald Trump, left and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud gesture during a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump: ‘Interesting things are happening’ on Middle East peace

US president tweets he held discussion with Saudi king, but does not say whether Israeli-Palestinian conflict was focus

By Alexander Fulbright and Agencies

May 12, 2017
4:00 pm

The Trump recipe for Mideast peace

The Israeli–Palestinian talks may be part of a larger initiative to make America great again — leading the region

By Arthur Koll

May 11, 2017
6:30 am

Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the 'flag march' through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

How the Six Day War changed American Jews

Historians say the existential crisis brought people together in a way that hasn’t been seen since Mount Sinai

By Ben Sales

May 9, 2017
4:07 pm

US President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak in the Roosevelt Room during a joint statement at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Trump embarks on a fool’s errand

The president will soon learn that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the lynchpin for Mideast peace

By Sarah N. Stern

April 6, 2017
2:49 pm

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner leaving after the presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2017. (Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images/via JTA)

White supremacists don’t know what to make of Jared Kushner

Jew-haters looking to define Trump’s ‘nefarious’ son-in-law take a page from the ‘Elders of Zion’

By Ben Sales

February 23, 2017
11:50 am

I’m a Zionist, not your punching bag

A proud McGill alum on her alma mater’s new oppressive student culture inhibiting open discussion, and what to do about it

By Melanie Takefman

February 11, 2017
9:13 pm

File: Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, interviewed on Channel 2, February 11, 2017 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Liberman: All the ‘Palestinians’ in Israel should go live under Abbas

Defense minister urges Netanyahu to seek deal with Trump on expanding sovereignty into West Bank, but says their White House meet should focus primarily on Iran

By Times of Israel staff

February 10, 2017
1:18 pm

US President Donald Trump chats with reporters on board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, bound for Palm Beach, Florida, on February 3, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Trump to Israeli paper: Settlements are ‘not a good thing for peace’

Speaking ahead of Netanyahu meeting, president says he respects Israel, doesn’t want to condemn it, seeks a broad Mideast agreement, is mulling over embassy move

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

January 11, 2017
10:00 am

New York City Detective Steven McDonald, his wife Patti, and son, Conor, smile after receiving the Spirit of Giving Award at the Kelly Cares Foundation's 5th Annual Irish Eyes Gala held at the JW Marriot Essex House in New York, March 15, 2015. (Stuart Ramson/Invision for Kelly Cares Foundation/AP Images)

Paralyzed NY cop who spoke of peace, forgiveness in Israel dies

Detective Steven McDonald became an international voice for reconciliation after he publicly forgave the teenager who shot him

By Colleen Long

December 25, 2016
2:59 pm

Pope Francis (C) looks on from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2016 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro)

Pope urges Israelis, Palestinians to write ‘new page of history’

In Christmas message under heavy security in Europe, pope offers comfort for terror victims, calls for end to Syrian war

By AFP

November 9, 2016
12:11 pm

Good neighbors make good peace

Where politicians fail, ordinary Jews and Arabs with shared interests are quietly on the path to normalization

By Oded Revivi

June 8, 2016
8:32 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Maxim Shipenkov)

After ‘historic’ Russia visit, Netanyahu says US remains top ally

Stressing warm ties with Moscow, PM says there’s ‘no alternative’ to Washington’s friendship, but Jerusalem seeking other ‘partnerships’ as well

By Raphael Ahren and Times of Israel staff

June 8, 2016
5:46 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)

PM denies calling Arab peace plan ‘universally acceptable’

Netanyahu’s office says 2002 initiative was not mentioned at all during Putin meeting, contradicting claim by Russian FM

By Times of Israel staff and Raphael Ahren

June 3, 2016
5:41 pm

French President Francois Hollande (2nd R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry prior to an international meeting on reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in Paris on June 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Saul Loeb)

Israel: Paris summit was a ‘missed opportunity,’ distances peace

Foreign Ministry accuses international community of caving to Abbas’s demands, and thus hardening the Palestinians’ stance