Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that he would continue to enforce the government's decision to halt construction in the West Bank, despite receiving multiple death threats apparently from settlers angry over the temporary freeze.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel denied reports that said he is fed up with Israel and the Palestinians, a White House aide told Haaretz on Wednesday.

De facto government security called on their Egyptian counterparts to open a parallel investigation file into the shooting of an Egyptian soldier during Rafah border riots Wednesday.

The international community has to stop "coddling" the Palestinians and tell them unequivocally that they need to return to the negotiating table, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a visiting US congressional delegation on Tuesday.

The Etz-Hayyim Synagogue in the Greek city of Hania on the island of Crete nearly burned to the ground overnight Tuesday after unknown arsonists set fire to a wooden staircase in the building.

Israel inched a step closer to deploying a missile defense system along the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the Iron Dome successfully intercepted a number of missile barrages in tests held in southern Israel this week.

A bipartisan mission comprising eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives is touring the Middle East.

A new poll suggests that American Jews are more conflicted about the challenges of immigration than their communal leaders -- but that's to be expected, the Jewish leaders say.

Israel's Air Force attacked a group of Palestinians preparing to fire rockets from southern Gaza into Israel, killing one.

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated in New Zealand against Israel’s top-ranked women's tennis player amid a bomb scare in the arena.