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Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026. (Shalev Shalom/POOL); Right: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the Government Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
April 9, 2026, 10:03 pm
Israel says direct peace talks with Lebanon to begin ASAP, rejects calls for truce first
Under international pressure to engage in diplomacy after deadly strikes, Netanyahu says disarming Hezbollah will be focus of talks, said set to kick off next week in DC
By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Stav Levaton
'Tomorrow is Yesterday,' by Hussein Agha, center (photo by Brett Walker), and Robert Malley (Kelley Norcia Photography)
December 31, 2025, 3:46 am
Two long-time negotiators dissect what’s at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In new book ‘Tomorrow is Yesterday,’ Jewish US diplomat Robert Malley and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha team up to look at the hard truths behind the stalled two-state solution
By Rich Tenorio
Then-US President Bill Clinton looks on as the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993. (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
National Security Council chairman Eyal Hulata meets with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in Washington on August 3, 2021. (US State Department/Twitter)
June 8, 2022, 11:29 pm
Israel reportedly brushes off US proposal for summit with Palestinian Authority
Israeli official said to have responded that past experiences prove such meetings lead to ‘crisis of expectations,’ subsequent escalation of violence
By Michael Horovitz
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
Rosh Hodesh (new month) prayers in Tsori Gilod Synagogue (also known as Beis Aharon V'Israel Synagogue) in Lviv, Ukraine, March 4, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
March 6, 2022, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 6: PM Bennett breaks Shabbat for peace & ToI prays in tense Lviv
Editor David Horovitz breaks down Israel’s role in the diplomatic web of Russia, Ukraine and Middle East; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman reports from Lviv
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on February 1, 2022. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)
February 28, 2022, 5:04 pm
Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet as Putin continues to flex nuclear muscles
Russian delegation led by Putin’s culture adviser; Ukraine expected to demand ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops in first face-to-face talks since war began
By YURAS KARMANAU, Jim Heintz, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Dasha Litvinova
Then-US President Bill Clinton, center, looks on as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and PLO leader Yasser Arafat shake hands in the East Room of the White House after signing the Middle East accord in Washington on September 28, 1995. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
January 22, 2021, 2:50 pm
Documentary highlights the ‘Human Factor’ in Israel-Palestinian peace talks
New film takes intimate look at efforts to broker agreement through the personal experiences of US officials who mediated the negotiations
By Jocelyn Noveck
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
US President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at a press briefing in the White House in Washington, August 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
August 20, 2020, 9:21 am
Kushner extends US peace offer to Iran, says Trump ready to talk, meet leaders
‘Let’s stop being stuck in conflicts of the past,’ White House adviser says in interview, but adds president ‘will be tough’; move comes as Washington works to snap back sanctions
By ToI Staff
Blue and White MKs Benny Gantz (C) and Moshe Ya'alon (R) at the Vered Yeriho lookout point in the Jordan Valley, January 21, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 21, 2020, 6:21 pm
Reversing course, Gantz urges Trump to ‘move up’ peace plan rollout
After previously calling an election-time release of the plan ‘interference’ in Israel’s vote, the Blue and White chief now ready to welcome its publication
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during the opening of the IDF Exhibition in Tel Aviv, on September 20, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
September 23, 2018, 10:58 am
Liberman pans Olmert-Abbas meeting as ‘pathetic’ waste of time
Palestinians have not budged ‘one millimeter’ since Oslo Accords, defense minister charges; opposition leader Livni says she also meets with Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on September 21, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
September 23, 2018, 12:20 am
Likud slams Olmert for meeting with ‘real obstacle to peace’ Abbas
Members of Netanyahu’s party and coalition mock former premier, lambaste PA leader, who is said to be looking for way out of US pressure under Trump administration
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)
September 22, 2018, 2:41 am
Abbas will tell UN to either save two-state solution or bury it — report
PA chief will make final effort for peace progress before turning to ‘difficult decisions,’ Arab paper reports, including suspending recognition of Israel, annulling accords
By ToI Staff
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Paris, September 21, 2018 (Wafa news agency)
September 22, 2018, 1:54 am
Olmert meets Abbas, says only PA head can bring 2-state solution
In Paris, former Israeli PM calls Abbas ‘a great leader’ and ‘friend,’ says they could have made peace long ago if not for his legal woes
By ToI Staff
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