Israel

U.S. scrambles as prisoner release, Jewish state issue threaten to sink talks

With a negotiations deadline looming, the United States is laboring to keep the peace process alive amid tensions over a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners and the issue of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.

Most Jewish Israeli teens identifying as Zionist

Approximately 70 percent of Jewish Israeli youth consider themselves Zionists, according to a survey released by the Zionist Council in Israel.

A year on, Israeli team of rivals rules Netanyahu’s coalition

In the year that Israel’s coalition government has been in office, the smaller parties have driven much of the agenda, not the prime minister.

White House ‘disappointed’ by Saudi denial to Jerusalem Post scribe

When Putin met his high school German teacher in Israel

Visiting Kiev’s wounded in Jerusalem

Tel Aviv allowing some stores to do business on Shabbat

Jimmy Carter backs labeling settlement origin goods

State Dept.: Israel’s discrimination keeps it out of visa waiver deal

Yad Vashem rejects Hungarian memorial initiative

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