Local and state-run media outlets in Saudi Arabia are beginning to shift their long-held position of enmity toward Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Recent changes include columnists quoting Israeli officials; asking Saudis to “leave behind” their “hatred of Jews”; and calling for direct talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia,...

Israel’s top diplomat secretly visited a Muslim country in Africa that has no formal ties with Jerusalem on Monday, Haaretz reported. A team of Israeli envoys led by Dore Gold, the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, traveled from the West African Muslim-majority nation of Guinea, with which Israel re-established relations after 49 years last month, to the...

President Barack Obama didn’t support the pro-democracy “Green Revolution” protests that swept Iran after its disputed 2009 presidential election because he feared that they would “sabotage his secret outreach to Iran,” Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake wrote on Wednesday. In his review of The Iran Wars, a new book by Wall Street Journal chief foreign correspondent...

Israel on Saturday praised the Turkish parliament’s adoption of a reconciliation agreement reached between Ankara and Jerusalem in June. “Israel welcomes the ratification of the agreement by the Turkish parliament, and anticipates the continued implementation [of the deal], including the [mutual] return of ambassadors,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement hours after...

The West African nation of Togo is taking the lead in organizing an Israeli-African “security and development” summit, which it offered to host in its capital next year, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. News of the summit first emerged after Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

“Israel receives more international legitimacy today than it has since independence,” Israel’s chief envoy to the Arab world, a Druze deputy minister in the governing coalition, said in a profile published Monday in Tablet. Ayoob Kara, a Druze member of the Likud and Israel’s Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation, added that “our relations with our neighbors are...