RAMALLAH, West Bank—Swank coffee shops, luxury-car dealerships, and a designer boutique are among hundreds of new businesses that have sprouted here in recent months, part of a boom that has defied failures to make progress toward peace with Israel.

JERUSALEM: An Israeli warplane has shot down a “suspicious object” flying over the southern part of the Dead Sea, the military said, adding that the intruder appeared to have been a balloon.

JERUSALEM (AP) — With Mideast peacemaking at a standstill, Israel’s hard-line parliament called a vote Monday to push through a bill that could sink future peace deals with the Palestinians and Syria.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday addressed the controversy over Israel’s plans to advance 1,345 housing units in Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, saying that the issue was “overblown,” in an interview with the Fox...

The sale of Palestinian land to Israelis is punishable by death, a Palestinian Authority court ruled on Sunday, in what Palestinian officials are saying is a necessary measure to ensure the founding of a future state.

An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week. ``Abu Mazen and all these evil people should...

Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is no agreement that the panel would refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify. Last week Israel...

Israeli police have arrested a Jewish man on suspicion of stabbing to death two Palestinians in 1998 and attempting to kill others in a string of attacks. Haim Pearlman was detained on Tuesday, but the news was blocked by a court order that was lifted...

A Libyan charity’s aid ship, flanked by Israeli missile boats, was sailing in the direction of an Egyptian port on Wednesday, apparently deciding not to defy Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Egypt’s state news...

Israel warned archenemy Iran to drop the plan. The Iranian announcement came days after Israel eased its three-year-old blockade of Gaza under international pressure following its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month.