Foreign Affairs

Several top Israeli politicians criticized the European Union on Wednesday after it reiterated its position that it did not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The EU announcement came...

Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. The 1979 agreement — brokered by then-US President Jimmy Carter — was inked by then-Israeli Prime Minister...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă announced at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference that her government had decided to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Dăncilă,...

Two Israelis killed in the March 10 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 have been identified as Avraham Matzliah of Ma’ale Adumim and Shimon Re’em of Zichron Ya’akov. Matzliah, 49,...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration ended the policy of referring to the West Bank and the Golan Heights as “occupied” by Israel. The State Department’s annual report...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy Jason Greenblatt discussed the Trump administration’s upcoming Mideast peace plan on Monday with Jordanian...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — A delegation from Zaka, the Israeli rescue and recovery group, left for Addis Ababa and the site of an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed...

BY MARCUS M. GILBAN RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A Guatemalan-born Israeli businessman is running for president of his native country. Yitzhak Farhi, 58, moved to Israel at the age 46...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate introduced a bill that would enhance U.S. capabilities to track hostages and named it after...

To mark International Women’s Day, P.A. TV broadcast an interview with the Director of the Palestinian Women’s Union in Gaza, Amal Hamad. Instead of discussing the achievements of Palestinian women...