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A 58-year-old man was killed, and five others were wounded. The strikes came after a prominent Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody following an 87-day hunger strike

The death on Tuesday of 45-year-old Khader Adnan, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group, has outraged Palestinian militants and leaders, and raised fears of an escalation

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

The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 buried homes and synagogues standing for more than a thousand years in the Iberian Peninsula

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

In a televised speech Monday, the Israeli prime minister said that Yoav Gallant is staying in his post: ‘I decided to put the differences we had behind us’

The march was a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition

The violence at the shrine triggered rocket fire by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, starting Wednesday, and Israeli airstrikes targeted both areas

The military says six missiles were fired within hours in a rare attack from Israel’s northeastern neighbor

The exact nature of the attack Friday was not immediately clear, but the Israeli Foreign Ministry referred to it as a “terror attack,” a term Israeli officials use for assaults perpetuated by Palestinians

Israeli police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians stockpiling rocks and fireworks inside one of the most bitterly disputed holy sites on Earth. The violence ripples across Israel and the occupied West Bank

The violence erupted after Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem earlier in the week, sparking unrest in the contested capital and outrage across the Arab world

Although the Israeli military was quick to emphasize that its warplanes struck sites belonging to only Palestinian militant groups, the barrage risks drawing in Israel’s bitter foe Hezbollah

The fighting, which comes as Muslims mark the holiday month of Ramadan and Jews prepare to begin the Passover festival on Wednesday evening, raised fears of a wider conflagration

Israel says it uses so-called administrative detention to thwart attacks and to hold dangerous militants without divulging incriminating material for security reasons

The Palestinian community may have the most to lose from the legal changes in Israel. Yet it harbors a deep sense that the system has always been rigged against them

Netanyahu said Israel makes its own decisions, rebuffing the U.S. president’s suggestion that that the premier drop a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s legal system

The funding will focus on initiatives that support free and independent media, combat corruption, bolster human rights, advance technology that improves democracy, and support free and fair elections

Netanyahu in a prime-time speech on Monday night acknowledged the divisions roiling the nation and announced a monthlong delay for the legislation

‘When there’s an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialogue, I, as prime minister, am taking a timeout for dialogue,’ Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address

Departing flights from the country’s main international airport were grounded Monday, diplomats walked off the job, and large mall chains and universities shut their doors

Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked a main highway and lit large bonfires, while police scuffled with protesters who gathered outside Netanyahu’s private home in Jerusalem

The move signals the prime minister will move ahead this week with plans to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, which has sparked widespread opposition in parliament and on the streets

The government’s plan to increase its control over the judiciary has sparked the largest protest movement in Israeli history and triggered a grave national crisis, including even warnings from the president of civil war

The motion would shield the Israeli leader from being deemed unfit to rule because of his corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest

It was the latest move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, dominated by settler leaders and allies, to promote settlement activity in the territory