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US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their way to the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
June 14, 2018, 2:29 am
Report: US official says Trump peace proposal won’t be the ‘Bibi plan’
American source tells Israeli TV the plan will be 'fair, balanced, realistic and fitting,' include components both Israelis, Palestinians will dislike
By TOI staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jason Greenblatt (left) and Jared Kushner (center) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the PMO in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)
June 12, 2018, 11:16 pm
US peace envoys to visit Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt next week for talks
Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt reportedly seeking input on when to launch Trump peace plan, ideas on resolving Gaza crisis
By TOI staff
Samia Hassan shows her family's nearly empty refrigerator in Gaza City, May 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 8, 2018, 2:11 pm
How do you solve a problem like Gaza?
Why not try my ideas about changing the financials of Gazan workers, and open a world of possibilities?
By Robert L. Wolkoff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the annual memorial service for the victims of the Altalena Affair, in Tel Aviv, on May 30, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
June 4, 2018, 5:55 pm
Rivlin calls on Abbas to condemn Gaza kite attacks
President also wishes PA leader happy Ramadan and successful recovery after hospitalization
By TOI staff
Aaron Davidman in 'Wrestling Jerusalem.' (Courtesy)
May 24, 2018, 9:45 am
‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ dramatically grapples with intricacies of Mideast peace
The one-man show, newly adapted to film and screening this week in Israel, is a political minefield as it covers an impossible situation from all sides. But is anyone listening?
By Jordan Hoffman
Gush Katif. (Courtesy, Sivan Rahav Meir, via Facebook)
May 17, 2018, 2:11 pm
To Gaza youth: It wasn’t always like this
Your leaders have electricity and water in their mansions when they send you to die for their beliefs
By Sivan Rahav Meir
A newly hung sign pointing to the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which was inaugurated on May 14, 2018. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 15, 2018, 2:49 pm
I’m a proud Israeli, and it’s complicated
Political issues are rarely as simple as yes or no, good or bad; the US Embassy move is no exception
By Noam Shapiro
Gas pipes on fire at the Kerem Shalom goods crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, May 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 12, 2018, 4:52 pm
Israel to close key Gaza crossing while it repairs immense damage by rioters
IDF to shutter Kerem Shalom to repair gas lines and conveyor after Palestinian protesters sabotage infrastructure serving their own energy-starved enclave
By TOI staff
Yossi Klein Halevi (Ilir Bajaktari / The Tower)
May 3, 2018, 11:48 am
Who we are, why we’re here: Israeli author explains Zionism to the Palestinians
We’re rightly outraged by enemy attacks on our legitimacy, says Yossi Klein Halevi. But we’ve never bothered to tell them our story. Hence his 'Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor'
By David Horovitz
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah, April 30, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
May 2, 2018, 1:13 pm
Palestinians said set to withdraw recognition of Israel
Sources tell pan-Arab daily that the PLO will seek to pause all agreements until Jerusalem recognizes a state of Palestine
By Stuart Winer
Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on December 14, 2017 (AP Photo/ Olivier Matthys)
April 11, 2018, 12:40 pm
Slovenia’s expected recognition of Palestine frozen indefinitely
Opponent of the move receives death threats; parliament postpones vote until after upcoming elections
By Raphael Ahren
Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 1, 2018, 7:16 pm
Pope’s Easter message is call for peace, including in Holy Land
After Gaza violence, Francis urges reconciliation in a place 'experiencing in these days the wounds of ongoing conflict that do not spare the defenseless'
By AP
US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 11, 2018, 4:58 pm
Netanyahu said to tell cabinet still no ‘concrete’ US peace plan
Despite many reported leaks of details from Trump's proposal, PM reportedly says nothing on the table 'at the moment'
By TOI staff
Zionist Union party leader Avi Gabbay addresses the pro-Israel US lobby AIPAC at its policy conference in Washington DC, March 4, 2018. (John Bowel)
March 5, 2018, 9:53 am
In AIPAC debut, Gabbay slams settlements, touts demilitarized Palestinian state
Zionist Union leader jabs Netanyahu for corruption probes, decries 'anti-Semitic incitement' by Palestinians, in maiden address to US pro-Israel lobby
By Michael Bachner
US President Donald Trump (right) alongside his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner during a meeting at the White House, February 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
March 1, 2018, 6:03 pm
European countries said to demand changes to US peace plan
At Palestinians' request, countries trying to persuade Trump administration to include recognition of East Jerusalem as capital
By Michael Bachner
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