Foreign Affairs

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration again named Israelis along with Americans as deserving immunity from International Criminal Court prosecution. In a statement Friday, President Donald Trump declared...

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election on Tuesday, the Trump administration could release its peace proposal for the Israelis and the Palestinians “as early as this month,” according...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The warning came Friday afternoon in Israel just as Benjamin Netanyahu was savoring his re-election victory: Don’t make good on your pledge to annex...

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to form another governing coalition, winning re-election on Tuesday, world leaders began to offer their congratulations. President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday...

The carefully choreographed ceremony in Moscow, in which Russia handed over to Israel the remains of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, missing in action since Israel’s 1982 Lebanon War,...

BY RON KAMPEAS VEGAS (JTA) — President Donald Trump said the Israeli election would be “close” and said both leading candidates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, the leader...

BY MARCUS M. GILBAN JERUSALEM (JTA) — Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Tuesday. “In this place we do an examination of conscience. He who...

As part of its initiative to improve diplomatic relations with African countries, Israel opened its first embassy in Rwanda. “I’m certain that the opening of an Israeli embassy in Rwanda...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, five days before Israel’s national elections. The Prime Minister’s Office announced...

BY MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — A special rabbinical court ordered by Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has determined that the families of the two Israeli men who died in...