JERUSALEM -- Is Hamas trying to change its stripes? Terrorist attacks against Israelis appear to be on pause, and rocket fire from Gaza is down significantly. The Hamas leader in Damascus, Khaled Meshaal, is trying to distance himself from the Assad regime...

JERUSALEM -- Major Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a unified government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The agreement, signed Monday in Qatar, stipulates that the government will be headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

JERUSALEM -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to make some positive moves toward the Palestinians in order to bring them back to the negotiating table. Ban was in Jerusalem Wednesday for meetings with Israeli leaders. He was...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a live Facebook chat with web surfers from the Arab world. Netanyahu responded in Arabic to questions from people from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, the Gulf States, northern Africa and the Palestinian...

JERUSALEM—The possibility of continuing peace talks with the Palestinians is "not particularly good," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. We "hope that the Palestinians will stay in the talks in order to reach, in the end, concrete negotiations...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, told a Jewish group that there is "no shortcut" to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Achieving a Palestinian state "can only come through direct negotiations and a negotiated...

JERUSALEM—Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators leading to full peace talks have ended with no progress, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said. Abbas, following a fifth meeting between the sides, met Wednesday with Jordan's...

JERUSALEM—Israel's attorney general has ordered police to launch an investigation of Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric after the mufti quoted a traditional text that called for killing Jews. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Tuesday asked the Israel...

JERUSALEM—A virtual peace conference for Jewish and Arab young leaders was held on Facebook. Monday's conference was sponsored by the Yala Young Leaders' group, which seeks to promote dialogue among Israelis, Palestinians and Americans, and the Peres...

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's attorney general to open an investigation into Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric, who called for killing Jews. Mufti Mohammed Hussein, speaking last week at an event celebrating the 47th anniversary...

BUENOS AIRES -- The presidents of the World Jewish Congress and Latin American Jewish Congress expressed hope for progress in Middle East peace at a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Latin American Jewish Congress President Jack...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met for the third time this month in Jordan. The talks began Saturday night and continued for several hours according to reports. The sides agreed to meet again on Jan. 25, according to Palestinian sources,...