Oslo Accords

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

September 14, 2023, 6:02 am

30 years after Oslo, FM Cohen rejects international dictates on Palestinian issue

Foreign minister meets with Norwegian counterpart on anniversary of landmark accords, says normalization is the path forward in the region

By Julia Frankel

Bill Clinton looks on as Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993. On the far right, current Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. (GPO)

September 14, 2023, 3:48 am

Why the Oslo peace process failed – and what it means for future negotiators

30 years ago, the Israelis and Palestinians signed an agreement many thought was set in stone. Now, as it lies battered and seemingly done for, here are the lessons we can draw

By Aaron David Miller

Host Yinon Magal on Channel 14's 'The Patriots' show on August 30, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

August 31, 2023, 1:17 pm

Right-wing pundit on Rabin murder: ‘When people are silenced, there is violence’

Channel 14’s Yinon Magal under fire for appearing to justify Yigal Amir’s motives in assassinating PM in 1995; last month, panelist on same show called for Amir’s release

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)

August 30, 2023, 1:58 pm

‘Difficult deal’: Declassified protocols show Oslo Accords okayed with marked wariness

30 years later, key cabinet quotes reveal Rabin, Peres feared Palestinians wouldn’t forgo terror, weren’t giving enough for Israeli concessions; Rabin foreshadowed own assassination

By Michael Bachner

Settlers from Yitzhar walk away from a fire started on fields belonging to the Palestinian village of Burin on July 29, 2023. (Screen capture/Yesh Din)

July 29, 2023, 6:51 pm

Settlers from flashpoint West Bank settlement said to torch Palestinian field

COGAT changes enforcement policy against illegally dug Palestinians wells, after Israel panned over video showing one serving hamlets not connected to grid being filled with cement

By ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion about the state budget, during a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 20, 2023, 1:16 pm

Smotrich said pushing for demolishing Palestinian construction in W. Bank areas A, B

Finance minister says Netanyahu backs move, which marks a sharp shift in Israeli policy and a violation of Oslo Accords

By ToI Staff

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu arrives at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 9, 2023, 5:07 pm

Minister accuses security chiefs of acting in ‘rebellion’ against current government

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu of far-right Otzma Yehudit party claims the right-wing government is ‘unable to carry out its policies’; Lapid: Prove your assertion or resign

By ToI Staff

Former Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei at his office in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, November 23, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

February 23, 2023, 10:48 am

Ahmed Qurei, Oslo Accords architect and former Palestinian PM, dies at 85

PA President Abbas announces death of Abu Alaa, one of the chief negotiators of the 1990s deals with Israel that created the Palestinian Authority

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shimon Peres with Uri Savir (Hanania Hermon / GPO)

May 14, 2022, 4:34 pm

Uri Savir, chief peace negotiator of Oslo Accords, dies at 69

Career diplomat led talks with the Palestinians while serving as Foreign Ministry director, later was a Knesset member and focused on peacemaking at the grassroots level

By ToI Staff

Then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, center, gets a briefing on the situation around the border between two Koreas during her visit to guard post Ouelletle in the border village of the Panmunjom, north of Seoul, Feb. 22, 1997. (AP Photo)

March 24, 2022, 7:43 am

Madeleine Albright, the trailblazer who fled Nazis to climb to summit of diplomacy

Daughter of a Jewish family that converted to Roman Catholicism, first woman to be US Secretary of State believed in the power of statecraft, but use of military force when needed

By Matthew Lee

Anneke von der Lippe (left) and Amos Taman in 'The Girl From Oslo,' on Netflix Israel from January 8, 2022 (Courtesy Netflix)

January 9, 2022, 6:19 pm

Netflix series ‘The Girl From Oslo’ brings drama, twists and turns

Norwegian-Israeli co-production places action in more than 100 locations throughout Israel, Egypt and Norway

By Jessica Steinberg

President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the White House after their Oval Office meeting and joint news conference, Nov. 12, 1993. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

December 8, 2021, 5:56 pm

Israel advances East Jerusalem project 25 years after promising Clinton to trash it

Neighborhood to be located on land then-PM moved to expropriate in 1995, sparking outcry; Security Council resolution was vetoed by US in exchange for Rabin backtrack

By Jacob Magid

Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000.
(William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

January 22, 2021, 2:50 pm

Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks

In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Palestinians sit as PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh opens a hospital for COVID-19 patients in the West Bank city of Nablus, on January 16, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

January 21, 2021, 6:42 am

Israeli immunity hinges on Palestinians getting COVID shots too, doctors say

Epidemiological interest is clear, say officials, warning that herd immunity cannot be reached otherwise, but legal experts conflicted over whether Israel is ultimately responsible

By Aaron Boxerman and Nathan Jeffay

The Avigayil outpost, southeast of Hebron in the West Bank, Febuary 21, 2010. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

January 19, 2021, 4:09 pm

Gantz blocks Netanyahu’s ‘irresponsible’ push to legalize West Bank outposts

PM reportedly tried to add recognition of 6 illegal settlements to cabinet’s agenda a day before Biden inauguration

By ToI Staff