Israel peace deal

The Iran peace plan, and what it means for Israel’s upcoming elections - opinion

If the opposition coalition is still unable to reach the 61-seat threshold for a governing coalition, it will have to make a painful decision.

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.
US President Donald Trump holds up the memorandum of understanding, signed by the US, and Iran, at the Palace of Versailles, in France.

Before condemnation or celebration, we need patience - opinion

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan poses with the signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

Turks on the border: Erdogan gains foothold in Gaza under ceasefire plan's Phase II

Palestinian-American businessman Bishara Bahbah, who helped secure the release of former hostage Edan Alexander.

What the Hamas-US backchannel tells us about Gaza’s transition - analysis


PLO: Defense minister’s dialogue plan will fail

The top PLO official said that Liberman ought to implement agreements and negotiate with the Palestinians.

Avigdor Liberman

Where hawks and doves fly together

Past peace process negotiators have lamented that, while pursuing an elusive conflict-ending treaty, too little attention was paid to grass roots activities. But it is not too late.

A MAN holds up a flag during a peace rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square

Beautiful people

Many walk the avenues of their Holy Land carrying a pain that will not subside.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

Former Mideast peace negotiators slam past failures

Beilin: PM may still withdraw from parts of West Bank; Arens: Negotiation advocates in fantasy land.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) shakes hands with former justice minister Yossi Beilin

Palestinian, Israeli protesters: ‘The last day of the occupation is the first day of peace'

Some of the activists waved large Palestinian flags that fluttered next to the passing cars and others had held olive branches.

Israelis and Palestinian rally for peace along Route 60 in the West Bank on Friday

For Zion's Sake: Let the two-state solution stay dead

Like the UN partition resolution of 1947, a two-state solution is unimplementable due to Arab hostility to Israel.

A PALESTINIAN woman holds up a knife in the Gaza Strip.

Italian FM: Peace deal could send signal of stability to Middle East

The foreign minister, on his first visit to Israel, said that European efforts should be “concentrated on the possible contribution to restart the process."

Italian FM Paolo Gentiloni

You can’t win a PR war by fighting on the enemy’s side

Israel needs to stop arguing the Palestinians' case and start arguing its own.

Herzog meets with Abbas in Ramallah

Settler housing starts up by 124% in 2013

Number of finished housing units in West Bank rose 7.4%; report comes as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Obama over peace process, settlements.

 West Bank settlement city of Ariel