JERUSALEM -- At least two dozen rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel on the fourth day of attacks on Israel's southern border. Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted at least eight of the rockets fired at Beersheba and five fired...

Palestinian rockets from Gaza wounded several Israelis, and an Israeli airstrike killed the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group. The Friday evening hostilities reportedly began with the firing of two mortar shells from Gaza into Israel. Shortly thereafter,...

JERUSALEM – Shira Morgenstein, a 38-year-old secretary, rushed from her exercise class at the Hebrew University swimming pool to pick up her daughter from preschool.  "Who has time to think about war with Iran?" she laughed as she tossed her wet bathing...

WASHINGTON -- An Israeli group that promotes unilateral steps toward a two-state solution is making its case in the United States. Orni Petrushka and Ami Ayalon, the co-founders of Blue White Future, this week made presentations to Jewish communities...

Hamas reportedly has turned on its former Syrian sponsors. "I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," Reuters quoted Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader of the...

LOS ANGELES -- For Israelis, winning the country’s first Oscar would be akin to scoring the first Olympic gold medal at the 2004 games in Athens.“If ‘Footnote’ gets the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, the reaction would be tremendous,”...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force struck two sites in the Gaza Strip after a weekend of rocket attacks on southern Israel. Israeli aircraft late Saturday night struck a weapons manufacturing site in northern Gaza, and a home in Gaza City which a statement...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force struck what the military called two "terror activity sites" in the Gaza Strip. The attacks early Thursday morning were in response to four rockets fired on southern Israel Wednesday night, according to a statement from...

JERUSALEM—"It's the economy stupid" was how American political strategist James Carville once summed up the defining issue in U.S. presidential elections. But in Israel, besieged by enemy nations and locked into an ongoing conflict with the Palestinians,...

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military reportedly will make serious cutbacks due to a shortfall in funds. Despite a government decision last month not to make a drastic cut in the defense budget in order to pay for new social benefits, the department is still...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force attacked four targets in Gaza, in response to rocket fire from Gaza that injured an Israeli woman. The attacks early Monday morning struck three tunnels between Gaza and Israel as well as what the IDF said in a statement...

JERUSALEM -- Delta Airlines removed the phrase "Occupied Palestinian Territories" from its list of Middle East destinations. The destination "Palestinian Territories" remained on Wednesday after the airline reportedly received e-mailed and tweeted complaints....