Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s allies say the overhaul will rein in the power of unelected judges. But protesters say the overhaul amounts to regime change, pushing Israel toward autocracy

The vote came after a stormy session in which opposition lawmakers chanted ‘shame’ and then stormed out of the chamber

Netanyahu’s doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly and that Netanyahu, 73, felt fine

The protests have blocked major highways and thronged Israel’s main airport and train stations ahead of a vote on a key piece of legislation Monday

A total of 28 countries have opened consulates in the former Spanish colony and a dozen European states are looking favorably on Morocco’s autonomy proposal

The protests, now in their seventh month, have taken on a sense of urgency as Netanyahu and his allies in parliament march ahead with the program

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is pushing forward with judicial changes that have sparked widespread protest in Israel, and he has authorized the construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank

A parliamentary committee was meeting Monday to prepare a bill that would limit judicial oversight on some government decisions. It is expected to come to a final vote in parliament that would make it law early next week

The ties between both countries are caught up in the matter of Western Sahara. Rabat has postponed the opening of an Israeli embassy, while Netanyahu has delayed recognizing Moroccan authority over the former Spanish colony

Troops remained inside the Jenin refugee camp at midday Monday, pushing ahead with the largest operation in the area during more than a year of fighting

The threat comes after Netanyahu said his government would proceed with the overhaul after talks with the opposition to find a compromise faltered

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant described the ‘extensive’ operation as Israel’s first to target the Hezbollah militant group and the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force

According to the indictment, Milchan, whose production credits include such hits as ‘Pretty Woman,’ gave the PM and his wife boxes of cigars and crates of champagne over a period of several years

The drone strike, believed to be the first in the area in nearly 20 years, marked a major escalation by Israel in a more than year-long campaign against militants in the area

The Peres Center for Peace leader believes his country is experiencing ‘one of the most hopeful times in its history’ because of widespread opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reforms

Anger over the mounting insecurity is directed at Israel’s government and its ultranationalist minister in charge of police, Itamar Ben-Gvir

The government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary plunged Israel into one of its worst domestic crises ever earlier this year

The former chief of justice returns to the public arena to accuse the executive of trying to ‘control the entire judicial system to promote an ideology that is against equal rights’

European diplomats are asking union officials to ‘unequivocally’ show opposition to the Israeli government’s plans to alter the status and borders of the disputed city

The U.S. historian of Palestinian descent, who is an expert on the Middle East, believes the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have lost ‘credibility’ in the occupied territories and are no longer ‘engaged’ in the resistance movement

‘My father used to tell us: ‘I can die at any moment.’ What I could not imagine is that they would also take my mother and my sister,’ says the son of one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed by a missile

The most violent conflagration in months between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza has pitted the Israeli military against Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest militant group after Hamas

The motive of the gunman, a National Guard member, remained unclear. Security officers killed him before he could enter the historic Ghriba synagogue building on the island of Djerba

Demonstrations target military and economic ‘burden-sharing,’ consumer price hikes and the separation of religion and state

The anniversary takes place against a backdrop of protests over Netanyahu’s judicial reform, which has exposed many underlying differences going back decades

The nation that arose on the ashes of the Holocaust faces perhaps its gravest existential threat yet — not from foreign enemies but from divisions within

Rabat was quick to condemn Israeli security forces’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but rejects local demands to sever a relationship that was brokered by the US and provides access to state-of-the-art military equipment