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The trip by nonresident Saudi ambassador Nayef al-Sudairi — marking the first time that the Saudi delegation has visited the West Bank since 1967 — came as Israel’s tourism minister became the first senior Israeli official to make a public visit to Saudi Arabia

Israel’s admission has been a priority for successive Israeli leaders and will be a major accomplishment for Netanyahu

Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip have found dozens of ancient graves, including two sarcophagi made of lead

The rising tensions along Israel’s front with Gaza came as fighting in the occupied West Bank surged to levels unseen in two decades

The U.S. has been seeking to broker an agreement in which Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for a U.S. defense pact, aid in developing a civilian nuclear program and progress toward creating a Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia is discussing a major agreement with the United States in which it would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for a U.S. defense pact and aid in developing its own civilian nuclear program

The president pushed the prime minister to find a compromise on a planned deep judicial reform that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington

It is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on earth, and is in a part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank that is administered by the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority

The establishment of relations between Riyadh and the Jewish state would be a triumph for Washington. Biden is scheduled to meet Netanyahu next week in New York to discuss ‘integration in the region’

Israel’s lead negotiator of the 30-year-old agreement is an optimist, but warns that the country’s leaders can either lead it ‘to peace or war’

Israelis and Palestinians have ignored an anniversary that is now associated with the failure and assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The hopes raised by the pact have evaporated

Netanyahu’s coalition, a collection of ultranationalist and ultrareligious lawmakers, unveiled the overhaul earlier this year, saying it was necessary to rein in an unelected judiciary they believe wields too much power

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant displayed satellite photographs that he said showed the site, where the Iranian national flag and the flag of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group could be seen

All 15 of Israel’s Supreme Court justices will appear on the bench — for the first time ever — on Tuesday to hear an appeal against the first part of the overhaul that parliament passed in July

For decades, scientists have pondered the usefulness of certain carved balls found at sites dating back a million and a half years

After talks with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, Kyriakos Mitsotakis also said that Israel could be brought into the European Union fold when it comes to civil protection initiatives

It is a small breakthrough for Israel’s government, whose hard-line policies toward the Palestinians have led to a cooling of its burgeoning ties with the Arab world

Members of the small and independent Fulcro theater group – who left Saint Petersburg because of the war – are trying out another scene in Israel

A fiction series takes on the 2011 rape accusation of the then-president, Moshe Katsav. The case had such an impact on the country that only television has dared to deal with it

The July unrest exposed Palestinians’ seething resentment toward their semi-autonomous government and forced a reckoning for their beaten-down security forces, who in their blue camouflage uniforms have come to embody the tensions tearing at Palestinian society

The deal could draw the attention of Russia, which Israel has maintained working relations with throughout the war on Ukraine. Israel has repeatedly rebuffed requests to sell arms to Kyiv for fear of antagonizing Moscow

The proposed loan to the Museum of the Bible in Washington also underscores the deepening ties between Israel and evangelical Christians in the U.S.

The performer talks to EL PAÍS about the mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform, her love of flamenco and her upcoming concert in Spain

This contradiction reflects a widely held belief among Jewish Israelis that the conflict with the Palestinians is both intractable and somehow separate from Israel’s internal strife

The country’s Supreme Court typically hears cases with smaller panels, but appears to have opted for a full complement of judges in light of the highly delicate nature of the matter

The shooting came hours before an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been a flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Palestinians