Israel\’s defense minister said on Tuesday he did not believe a stable peace agreement could be reached with the Palestinians in his lifetime – one of the bleakest assessments from a top-level cabinet member since talks collapsed last year.
Israel’s Cabinet approved a more than $500 million plan to develop Druze and Circassian communities.
Diplomats from all 28 European member states’ Jerusalem consulate traveled to the Palestinian town of Susiya to protest Israel’s decision to demolish it.
China is insisting that its citizens not work on Jewish settlements in the West Bank, but the objections are not based on politics.
Israel’s economy would gain $120 billion and the Palestinian economy some $50 billion over the next decade in a two-state solution, a study has found.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the international community’s failure to speak out against renewed rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel.
To Israel’s supporters, the decision by the French telecommunications giant Orange to dump its Israeli affiliate is not only a politically motivated divestment by a major multinational corporation, but a sign that European policymakers are being impacted by efforts to boycott the Jewish state.
U.N. agencies in Israel and the Palestinian territories reported an alarming number of child victims in last year\’s war in the Gaza Strip but were split on whether Israel should be put on a list of violators of children\’s rights, a U.N. document said.
Women march to protest violence against women and victim-blaming.
Israel protested to France on Thursday after the head of partly state-owned French telecom giant Orange said it intended to end a brand licensing deal with an Israeli firm, drawing accusations it was bending to a pro-Palestinian boycott movement.
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