Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz, whose government in May announced plans to build 22 new West Bank settlements, has said of the push for recognition: “They will recognise a Palestinian state on ...

For the first time, cracks appear in Israel’s impunity: A significant fraction of the U.S. Senate Democrats voted against ...

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert breaks ranks, declaring Netanyahu's war has no endgame and no moral compass. From failed strategy to lost global credibility, Olmert says it's time to end the war, hold ...

Politics / Hiding in Plain Sight / I learned from a young age that you shouldn’t let your neighbor go hungry. Benjamin ...

There is a growing perception among Israelis and Jews elsewhere that the IDF's attacks have gone beyond any reasonable ...

Something odd is happening to a select number of Israel’s former leaders after they leave power. Some seem to lose all sense ...

JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison in a case involving allegations he accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from an American supporter.

A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration ...

Ehud Olmert, whose own proposal in 2008 failed to reconcile Israelis and Palestinians, said he "will be the most enthusiastic supporter of President Trump if he succeeds." ...

Keir Starmer’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine – unless, that is, Israel agrees to a Gaza ceasefire – begs a ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 10, 2006 — -- Ehud Olmert may be running the government of Israel, but he is not using the prime minister's office or sitting in Ariel Sharon's chair during Cabinet meetings ...