WASHINGTON -- President Obama told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that direct discussions with Israel were an "important contribution to the cause of peace." "The two leaders agreed on the necessity of the two-state solution, and President...

BERLIN -- A leading German politician acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he called Israel an "apartheid regime" on Facebook. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the Social Democratic Party in Germany, said Thursday that the choice of words he used on...

JERUSALEM -- Isaeli Border Police redirected a group of students from Harvard University from a Palestinian village for traveling on a security road. The 55 students and the Palestinian activist guiding them were stopped Wednesday in Walaja and escorted...

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian woman caught carrying a large knife near the security fence of a West Bank settlement said she was planning to carry out an attack. Police captured the woman, 32, outside the settlement of Emmanuel in the northern West Bank....

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man was seriously wounded during a protest that became violent at a West Bank checkpoint. The 19-year-old Palestinian was struck in the head Monday by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah....

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man confessed to running over and stabbing eight Israelis to death in Tel Aviv. Muhammad Zofan, 21, of Kalkilya, confessed Sunday in Tel Aviv District Court to the attack last Aug. 29 near the the Oman 17 nightclub. Zofan carjacked...

KALANDIYA, West Bank -- The U.S. congresswomen get off the bus and stand in the chilly shadows of the Kalandiya crossing point between the West Bank and Jerusalem. It’s late morning, well past the rush hour when thousands of Palestinians congregate...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops and Palestinian rioters clashed following the funeral of a Palestinian protester who was killed after throwing exploding firecrackers at soldiers. The clashes Saturday in the West Bank district of al-Ram next to Jerusalem...

JERUSALEM—As his weight dropped and his face grew gaunt, Khader Adnan became the latest Palestinian cause celebre.Israel arrested Adnan, a 33-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Arraba, on Dec. 17 and placed him in administrative detention....

Jewish students at the London School of Economics and members of the university's Palestinian Society clashed during an Israel Apartheid Week protest. The Palestinian Society protesters created a mock checkpoint Monday outside a campus building, stopping...

JERUSALEM -- A delegation of Jewish leaders met with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman. The delegation, participants in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations' annual meeting in Jerusalem, had a "remarkably candid and open exchange"...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged a protest in front of the Israeli stand at an annual international tourist fair in Milan. Video showed about 10 demonstrators dressed in keffiyas and holding the Palestinian flag passing out flyers and chanting anti-Israel...