By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, May 9 (Reuters) - Back-of-the bus seating for women on any public transport in Israel will soon be outlaw...

MOSCOW — The United States and Russia pledged Tuesday to set aside more than two years of differences over Syria's civil war, saying they'd conv...

Israel still embodies so many of the contradictions and challenges of a nation forged in a previous era. While there is some enthusiasm for Yair Lapid and Yesh Atid, it remains to be seen how many of these core issues will be resolved.

By Linda Gradstein/The Media Line It is now a full month since the Israeli public went to the polls, but the winner, Prime Minister Binyamin Netany...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday added his first coalition partner as he works to build a new government, agree...

Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud/Beitenu right wing slate limped across the Israeli electoral finish line, leaving a trail of lost Knesset seats in its wake and the loss of incalculable political fortune. It will surely represent a personal rebuke and a vote of popular no confidence in Netanyahu's leadership.

As a young nation, Israel's democratic system is still in the early stages of maturation, yet its governing framework has had a regressive effect on Israel's development of a functioning democracy.

Anyone who thinks that there is a possibility of peace between Israelis and Palestinians is either delusional or just hasn't been paying close attention to that part of world for the last 65 years.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared to be cruising to re-election a few weeks ago, suddenly appears vulnerable a...

Last week, Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language made an interesting ruling. The academy decided that all titles of official government positions can and should be described with the feminine form of the relevant noun when a given position is held by a woman.

Time will tell whether Netanyahu's gambit will pay off at the polls or result in a net loss of seats for his party. What is certain is that, in elevating Lieberman's status, he is effectively putting Israel's strategic interests in jeopardy while threatening the democratic fabric of society.

The beginning of the end of occupation also requires telling Israelis that the settlement enterprise runs contrary to peace.

Although Israelis are not scheduled to go to the polls until fall of 2013, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is widely expected to call for early elections. Yet, Netanyahu may be more vulnerable than anticipated.

LONDON — Britain's chief prosecutor on Thursday blocked an attempt to serve visiting Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni with an arrest warran...

The notion of Israel becoming a "light unto the nations" while at peace and security with its neighbors seems to be a distant dream today. If the country does not change course it could experience a nightmare of drastic proportions.

Ron Prosor's crude attack on our reporting of the Palestine Papers does neither him nor his country a service.

The Palestine Papers help pave the way for two scenarios: The eventual establishment of a democratic, bi-national state or the PA continuing its push for international recognition of a Palestinian state.

Israel has been sliding into ever greater isolation in the last years and this process has accelerated since Netanayhu came to power in 2009. The inte...

Israel's history is replete with creative, daring thinking in the military domain. Unfortunately its policies are characterized by a great lack of str...

There is much speculation that this kerfluffle over 1,600 theoretical apartments on the wrong side of the green line in Jerusalem will lead to a ruptu...

JERUSALEM — Israel's parliamentary opposition leader on Tuesday praised the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, in the first...

The Iraq crisis, the events in Gaza and the West Bank and the now quite plausible resumption of negotiations with Israel's neighbors, all require a national government from wall to wall of the Knesset.

LONDON — Britain pledged Tuesday to reform a peculiar legal power that lets judges order the arrest of visiting politicians and generals –...

Close political ties with another government mustn't over-ride the UK's proper duty to enforce the rule of law. Equality of access to justice and the efficacy of universal justice may be put at grave risk.