In the prologue to his popular history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (first published by W. W. Norton & Co., 2000), professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford University ...

The social media is going into the debate about the arrests. The bride was later released but she is being placed under house arrest for five days. There is also talk about the fact that the groom had ...

The phrase “shotgun wedding” originates from the figurative image of the pregnant bride’s relatives threatening a reluctant groom with a shotgun to ensure he marries her. The Trump deal came to halt ...

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The White House recently backed Israel's claims to sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Rachel Martin talks to Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, who captured the complexity of the area in his 2004 film.

Forty years ago this week, tiny Israel demolished the greatest Arab armies and acquired territories three times its size. For us Israelis, these newly occupied territories -- East Jerusalem, West Bank ...

Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin has compared Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza to his Princess Bride hero’s so-called “revenge business.” Patinkin, 72, is best known for his role in the 1987 family ...

As I watched US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at the White House last week about Mr. Trump’s 21-point (now 20) plan to end the Israel-Hamas War, I couldn’t ...

Weddings in Israel were down 25 percent in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Religious Affairs Ministry Thursday. Some 30,260 couples married in 2020, compared to 34,083 ...

Golan Heights is 500 square miles of fertile hillside land. It's home to tens of thousands of Druze, who are an Arab minority in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. The Golan Heights was suddenly in the news ...