The Israeli government announced Thursday that it was pessimistic about the French multilateral initiative to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and called instead for direct negotiations. “Israel adheres to the position that the best way to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is direct and bilateral negotiations,” the Prime...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and afterwards praised the “very successful” discussions that he said led to new understandings over their mutual concerns with the conflict in Syria. “I set the goal of the meeting as strengthening coordination between Russia and Israel...

Israel was among the first countries to send humanitarian aid to Nepal after earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated the mountainous country in April 2015, killing nearly 9,000 and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes. A year later, Israeli nonprofits Tevel b’Tzedek (The Earth in Justice) and...

In the first-ever visit by a Singaporean prime minister to Israel, the city-state’s current premier thanked Israel for “[helping] us and [standing] by us at our time of great need,” The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made his remarks as he received an honorary doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....

The recent acceptance of Israel’s maritime rights by Saudi Arabia as part of a deal between the kingdom and Egypt, though far short of normalization, is still a “ray of light” that gives a boost to the nations opposing Iranian aggression in the Middle East, Eran Lerman and Joshua Teitelbaum wrote in an analysis...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rebuffed Secretary of State John Kerry’s call for Iran to negotiate a “new arrangement” governing its ballistic missile program. Making his remarks in Tehran at a joint press conference with Estonia’s foreign minister on Sunday, Zarif rejected any form of negotiation or compromise. Zarif claimed that the...