U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...

An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and a man was injured during three separate terror attacks on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported. The woman, 21-year-old Hadar Buchris of Safed, was stabbed in the afternoon while waiting for a bus at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank....

One of the Palestinian Authority’s core obligations under the terms of the Oslo Accords is ending the popular anti-Israel incitement that permeates official Palestinian institutions and civil society. The PA’s failure to condemn calls to violence against Israelis, magnified by its own frequent contributions to the toxic rhetoric, has led...

Ezra Schwartz, a teenager from Sharon, Massachusetts, was identified as the American killed in a terror attack near Alon Shvut in the West Bank on Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. Schwartz, 18, was one of three people killed Thursday near the settlement of Alon Shvut. He reportedly was studying for a...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has publicly confirmed for the first time that he turned down a peace offer in 2008 that would have provided for an independent Palestinian state containing all of the Gaza Strip, much of the West Bank (with land swaps), and a tunnel connecting the two areas. Abbas made his comments...

Israel’s security cabinet declared the Hamas-affiliated northern branch of the Islamic Movement an illegal organization late Monday night, The Jerusalem Post reported. Israel has resolved to outlaw a domestic Islamist movement with ties to Hamas and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, according to a press release distributed early Tuesday morning by...