Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon have a message that can sound utterly preposterous as violence hardens as the main mode of communication between Israelis and Palestinians: The Future Is Peace, the title of their new book. They are dead serious — and...

  MEGIDDO, Israel -- The road into Megiddo runs past roads, fields and small villages in northern Israel. Low hills break up the farmland. On a bright day, it could be middle Missouri. It does not look like a place living under constant...

  This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Brad Lander, a Jewish Democrat running for Congress who has described himself as a liberal Zionist, has joined...

  (JTA) — U.S.-Iranian peace talks ended without a deal on Saturday and President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the future of the current ceasefire in doubt. In Israel, which launched the war...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. To report this story, I interviewed Mahmoud Khalil, pored over his previous public comments and spoke with current...

  On March 26, a record-breaking 90-plus degree afternoon in St. Louis, about 50 people gathered under a small blue tent outside the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Kaplan Feldman Complex. They stood before a brand-new ambulance, ready to...

    Ibrahim Abu Mukh, the head of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and murdered IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in August 1984, was released from an Israeli prison on Monday. Abu Mukh, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

  (JTA) — METULA, Israel — Daniel Dorfman had only recently reopened his pizza restaurant in this kibbutz just hundreds of meters from Israel’s border with Lebanon when war broke out again. His Ayuni Pizza Bar had been closed since October...

Assaf Lowengart, the first Israeli-born professional baseball player and the only sabra on Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic, was eager to have his parents come from Timorim to see him in action in 2023. But he broke his ankle three weeks before...

  The ambulances and motorcycles are the most visible part of the work of United Hatzalah. You can spot them quickly. Orange jackets. Orange vehicles. Motion. In Israel’s emergency response system, speed is the headline. What’s harder...

  In November, I wrote that I was heading to Israel to see firsthand how the Jewish Federation of St. Louis funding makes a difference. In January, I stood inside Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, listening as its deputy director calmly...

  (JTA) — President Donald Trump rejected claims that Israel had pulled the United States into the war with Iran on Tuesday, instead suggesting that he had “forced their hands.” Trump’s comments came after Secretary of State Marco...