Palestinian negotiators in the United States were slated to speak with Secretary of State John Kerry today about resuming negotiations with Israel and removing Israeli presence from the West Bank and east Jerusalem within three years. Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj represented Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the parley....

In a statement released yesterday, the controversial activist group J-Street called on the United States to label Israeli presence in the West Bank as illegal. Israel’s decision earlier this week to declare lands within the Etzion Bloc, which was settled by Jews until they were expelled by Jordanian forces in...

Asia is the future for Israeli startups, say the organizers behind the new and first-of-its-kind Asian startup accelerator in Israel. StartupEast, in partnership with IDC’s Zell entrepreneurship program, are hosting a group of Korean entrepreneurs in a three-week course in Tel Aviv. StartupEast dubs itself as the only accelerator in...

On Wednesday, Israel signed an agreement with Jordan to supply the Hashemite kingdom with $15 billion of natural gas from the Tamar natural gas field over 15 years. According to The Times of Israel, the deal “is the largest collaboration with Jordan to date.” [Energy and Water Minister Silvan] Shalom hailed...

The Jerusalem Post late Tuesday reported on remarks made by a bipartisan group of American lawmakers visiting Israel – anchored on the Republican side by Rep. Ed Royce (CA) and on the Democratic side by Rep. Eliot Engel (NY) – that the outlet took as reaffirming the ties between Jerusalem...

A first-time mother from Syria is happily cradling her newborn at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed (Tsfat), after giving birth to a healthy 2.6 kg girl at the Israeli medical facility on Tuesday (August 26, 2014). This is the seventh birth of a Syrian baby at the northern medical center. “We have...