Joshua Mitnick

A body is removed from the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City after a gun battle at the holy site on July 14.

2 Israeli police officers, 3 attackers are killed in Temple Mount shootout

August 22, 2019 at 5:08 a.m.

Two Israeli police officers were killed Friday when gunmen with improvised weapons opened fire near the holiest site in Jerusalem, then fled back to the Temple Mount plaza outside the...

Israeli police work around the body of a Palestinian in Jerusalem on June 17, 2017. The man was one of three Palestinians who authorities said attacked Israeli officers near Jerusalem's Old City, killing one female police officer.

Islamic State and Hamas claim responsibility for killing of Israeli police officer

August 22, 2019 at 4:47 a.m.

Palestinian militants launched an attack with guns and knives near Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, killing a border police officer and wounding three other people in the first attack within...

Interior view of a long abandoned and bullet-scarred hospital in Quneitra, Syria. Quneitra was occupied by Israel for seven years, beginning in 1967. Today, though decades have passed since the Israeli withdrawal, the town has been left in its destroyed state.

50 years after winning the Six-Day War, some Israelis are wondering if it was a victory

August 22, 2019 at 4:41 a.m.

Hundreds of guests and dignitaries gathered at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, for a special session Tuesday marking the 1967 Six-Day War. It was a celebration of Israel’s lightning military...

What is a ‘one-state solution’ in Israel? Some Palestinians are calling for it.

August 22, 2019 at 2:31 a.m.

For nearly three decades, governments around the world have insisted that the best way to end the most intractable conflict in the Middle East is to trade land for peace,...

The Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Oct. 24, 2016. Tax records show the family of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, gave thousands of dollars to this and other settlements.

Trump ambassador, son-in-law could upend decades of U.S. policy on Israel and Palestinians

August 18, 2019 at 7:19 p.m.

Here in the desert hills of the West Bank, near the Palestinians' principal city of Ramallah, a group of Orthodox Jews has built the town of Beit El, a place...

A member of the Jewish religious group Women of the Wall wears phylacteries and a traditional prayer shawl as she holds a Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in March.

Battle still rages over women praying at Jerusalem’s Western Wall as compromise stalls

August 22, 2019 at 12:38 a.m.

Clutching smuggled Torah scrolls, dozens of feminist activists approached the Western Wall, wrapping themselves in colorful prayer shawls and chanting passages from the Jewish Bible. Their display of piety was...

Fathiya Safadi sits in the Razan fertility clinic's waiting room in the West Bank town of Nablus with son Amir, who was conceived using seminal fluid from her husband, Ashraf, that was smuggled out of an Israeli prison.

With smuggled sperm, Palestinians sire children from behind Israeli prison bars

August 22, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

Fathiya Safadi was married less than three weeks when her husband, Ashraf, a wanted Palestinian militant, was arrested, jailed and sentenced to 21 years behind bars in Israel. Her friends...

Palestinians inspect the damage at the apartment of a Palestinian assailant who in January stabbed an Israeli woman to death. The unit in the Qalandia refugee camp in the West Bank was partially destroyed by Israeli forces in April.

Number of stabbing attacks on Israeli soldiers diminishes

June 24, 2019 at 12:38 p.m.

Not long ago, 20-year-old Akram Wuswus and his friends routinely posted online praise for Palestinians who stabbed Israelis and subsequently were killed by authorities. The friends were among many young...

Demonstrators gather outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem to demand the release of a soldier held in the killing of a Palestinian assailant.

After Israeli soldier kills Palestinian on camera, public offers support despite army prosecution

June 20, 2019 at 12:32 a.m.

Israel's military ranks among the most popular institutions in the country, winning approval ratings far outpacing the courts and the parliament. Popularity of the military chief of staff routinely exceeds...

Arabs risk plenty for Northwestern MBA

August 20, 2021 at 4:02 a.m.

That George Odeh nearly missed his commencement because Israeli soldiers delayed him at a checkpoint seemed a fitting way for the Palestinian businessman to end two years of study at...

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