JERUSALEM — Israel was prepared to extend a West Bank construction freeze, but the United States withdrew the idea, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "The United States asked us to consider extending the freeze by three months, and the...

JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu said he'd present to his Cabinet an expected U.S. offer of incentives to freeze Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. After meeting last week in New York with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for seven...

JERUSALEM-Following reports of an unprecedented U.S. offer of a host of assurances in return for a 60-day extension of the freeze on building in West Bank settlements, some political analysts are wondering why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not...