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The construction site of the new building for the ultra orthodox chassidic sect of Belz Machnovka, in the orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, on August 16, 2017. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
July 11, 2018, 9:30 am
A people that dwells: 7 things to know for July 11
After ferocious criticism, a clause allowing discriminatory housing may be on its way out faster than Flynn
By Joshua Davidovich
Then US Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale, left, speaks with a US Army soldier during a handover ceremony of US weapons to the Lebanese army at Beirut's port in Lebanon on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
July 11, 2018, 6:11 am
Trump taps Obama Mideast peace envoy for top State Department post
Nomination of David Hale as under secretary for political affairs comes ahead of expected rollout of Israeli-Palestinian peace plan; administration critics laud move
By Eric Cortellessa
Lebanese troops stand guard in a street on August 9, 2014, in the eastern Lebanese town of Arsal, on the border with Syria. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
August 18, 2014, 1:29 pm
Lebanon asks US for combat planes to battle jihadists
Request comes alongside call for munitions to restock supplies after heavy clashes in east, near Syrian border
By TOI staff and AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference at Ankara Palace in Ankara, Turkey, March 1, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
March 19, 2013, 5:30 pm
Kerry arrives in Israel, will return after Jordan trip
Secretary to accompany the president here from Wednesday; will come back to Jerusalem on Saturday night to meet again with Netanyahu
By Asher Zeiger
John Kerry will head back to Capitol Hill to brief the full Senate on Thursday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
February 22, 2013, 6:33 pm
Kerry meets Palestinian officials ahead of Obama visit
Yaakov Amidror, the Israeli national security adviser, was also in Washington to lay the groundwork for US president’s trip
By Philip Podolsky and Aaron Kalman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit to an exhibition marking 35 years since Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Thursday, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 29, 2012, 12:42 pm
‘There is no power in the world that can disconnect the Jewish people from the land of Israel,’ Netanyahu says
Germany announces it will abstain at the General Assembly, Abbas brushes off ‘heavy’ pressure to abandon UN upgrade gambit
By Aaron Kalman and Gabe Fisher
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Nov. 16 (photo AP/Majdi Mohammed)
November 29, 2012, 10:25 am
Abbas brushes off Israeli threats surrounding UN bid
While supporters call General Assembly vote on Palestine a ‘historic moment,’ Jerusalem downplays the bid as ‘a virtual move’
By Aaron Kalman
Palestinian security officers slide down a building next to a banner of PA President Mahmoud Abbas with Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank town of Jenin in 2012. Arabic on the left reads "our hero prisoners, the covenant is the covenant and the section is the section, your liberty will stay our first priority," and right, "all your people (are) with you."(photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)
November 29, 2012, 12:55 am
Palestinians reject 11th-hour bid by US to stop statehood gambit
PA remains committed to going ahead with request for nonmember state status at UN after Abbas meets with top State Department officials
By Joshua Davidovich and AP
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
November 5, 2012, 11:24 pm
Liberman to convene Israel’s ambassadors to Europe in bid to thwart ‘Palestine’ gambit
Foreign minister aims to thwart Palestinian Authority bid for UN status upgrade
By Aaron Kalman
Mahmoud Abbas speaking in Ramallah in 2011. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 8, 2012, 9:58 pm
Abbas: Deal with Hamas does not preclude peace with Israel
Palestinian president tells American envoy reconciliation deal won’t be obstacle to peace
By Joshua Davidovich
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