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Ein 'Arik is a small village just west of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Israel-Hamas war
‘No one is helping us’: Palestinians in West Bank barred from Israel face unemployment, financial insecurity
From left, students Shakked Klein, Nearodey Chhoem, Angelina Hadad, Nico Ben Jacob and Chidinma Okoli. About half the students at Givat Haviva come from abroad.
Israel-Hamas war
This school in Israel is opening dialogue among its Jewish, Arab and international students
Activists from the Standing Together Movement play drums at a demonstration.
Israel-Hamas war
Standing Together leaders discuss attempts to open Jewish-Arab dialogue amid Gaza war
The streets of Ashkelon in southern Israel are quiet, but not totally empty after Hamas militants attacked the area over a month ago.
Israel-Hamas war
As thousands flee violence in southern Israel, some decide to stay put
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Amman, Jordan, Oct. 13, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
The Palestinian political system needs to be rebuilt on ‘national consensus,’ says political activist
people amid explosion
Israel-Hamas war
A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Noam Tsuriely is a 28-year-old Jewish Israeli hip-hop artist from Jerusalem, whose debut album will drop later this summer.
Planet Hip Hop
This Israeli rapper brings people together through multilingual lyrics
man showing picture
Conflict & Justice
Palestinians celebrate a new generation of West Bank militants 
A Palestinian man walks between scorched cars in a scrapyard, in the town of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Feb. 27, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
Israel beefs up troops after unprecedented settler rampage
Rodney Dixon, lawyer for Al Jazeera, third from left, and Lina Abu Akleh, niece of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, second left, answer questions during a press conference
Conflict & Justice
Al Jazeera wants the ICC to do a ‘thorough and independent’ investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by his wife Sara, waves to his supporters after first exit poll results for the Israeli Parliamentary election at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem
Netanyahu win is set to ‘change the face of Israel,’ Israeli reporter says
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Justice
US senators demand full White House investigation into shooting of Palestinian American journalist
Biden in a crowd
Conflict & Justice
President Biden’s visit to Israel focuses on regional security 
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to a group of Bahraini businesspeople during an official visit to Manama, Bahrain
Global Politics
What’s at stake for Israel and Gulf Arab countries in light of the Abraham Accords?
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
In this photo provided by US Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility
Top of The World
Aukus security pact sparks Chinese and French ire
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
Top of The World
G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
Empty green desks and chairs in a classroom with a chalkboard at the front
Top of The World
Gunmen abduct 150 schoolgirls in Nigeria
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stand together at the Capitol
Top of The World
US and Afghan presidents to meet in Washington amid troop withdrawal
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
Girl stands in front of destroyed buildings
Top of The World
Israel and Hamas begin ceasefire
Young man in blue shirt lifts a piece of concrete as other men sift through rubble after an airstrike
Top of The World
Prospects of a ceasefire offer hope to ending violence between Israel and Hamas
A person receives a jab from a health worker wearing white gloves
Top of The World
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine 79% effective, US trial shows
Leah Weiss, who is also a medial clown named Rosie, has been working in the COVID-19 ward of a Jerusalem hospital most of this year.
COVID-19
To cheer up COVID-19 patients, Israeli hospitals send in the clowns
US President-elect Joe Biden, left, who was then US Vice President, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, meet at the presidential compound in Ramallah, West Bank, March 9, 2016.
Human rights
PLO official: Biden is ‘no savior’ for Palestinians but should hold Israel ‘to account’
A supporter of US President Donald Trump waves Israeli and US national flags on the day of the U.S. presidential election, in Carmiel, northern Israel, Nov. 3, 2020.
Foreign policy
Amid US-UAE arms deal and US election, Israelis wonder how balance of power in region might change
signing ceremony
Global Politics
Palestinians worry about the impact of the Abraham Accords. They say it’s time to elect new leaders.
A man dressed in white stands by the closed door of an airplane.
Historic flight between Israel and the UAE lands in Abu Dhabi
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Parents wait with their children to enter their elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, May 3, 2020.
Israel’s hurried school reopenings serve as a cautionary tale
Parenting Challenges in the Era of COVID-19: Balancing Work and Kids 2020-07-06
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A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
The Dome of the Rock is shown in the distance in a wide framed photograph of Jerusalem's Old City.
Borders
Jerusalem’s ‘green’ cable car plan is challenged in Israel’s top court
A man is shown wearing a salmon-colored collard shirt and sunglasses while holding the reins of a horse.
Elections
In Israel’s election, the Arab vote could be pivotal
Soldiers in white tanks on a road
Conflict & Justice
Israeli escalation against Iran is a ‘multilevel’ game
Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his hand covering his mouth.
Identity
What Israel’s new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness
A black and white photo showing a man in a pilot's uniform with a mustache looking at a camera among a crowd of people.
Capt. Michel Bacos, Entebbe hijacking hero, dies at 95
Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic “Anti-Hate” Measure
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Thousands of Children Complained of Sexual Abuse in Immigrant Detention
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American student Lara Alqasem, 22, appears at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel October 11, 2018. She wants to study at Hebrew University. But Israeli authorities are questioning her politics.
Conflict & Justice
She wanted to study at Hebrew University, but Israel is blocking her
fans in the stands shout slogans during a match
Global Politics
The right-wing origins of the Jerusalem soccer team that wants to add ‘Trump’ to its name
Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib, founder of the Museum of Memories in Beirut. He started the museum with a question for one of his patients: Do you have something from Palestine?
Conflict
Objects from Palestine are now enshrined at a makeshift museum in this Beirut refugee camp
Wealth In America: What Is It? And Who’s Got It?
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Teklit Michael dreamed of running in the London Olympics. But his country, Eritrea, jailed him. So he fled to Israel.
Conflict
A life of statelessness derailed this Eritrean runner’s hopes to compete in the Olympics
Christian worshippers from around the world along the Via Dolorosa
Conflict
Tensions over Jerusalem palpable during Good Friday, Passover celebrations
Arts, Culture & Media
“Waltz With Bashir”
Arts, Culture & Media
Israeli Pulp
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Director Ziad Doueiri poses during a photocall for the movie "The Insult," at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on August 31, 2017. The film won Best Actor for Kamal el-Basha’s role. When he returned to Lebanon, Doueiri was detained by author
Arts
This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global acclaim, but back home he got arrested
South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel after getting deported back to Juba, June 18, 2012.
Justice
Hundreds of Israeli rabbis say they will personally hide African asylum-seekers in their homes
A worker prepares lights ahead of Christmas celebrations in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Dec. 19, 2017.
Global Politics
Christmas in Bethlehem goes on in the shadow of Trump’s Jerusalem announcement
President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, delivers remarks recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the White House in Washington, DC on December 6, 2017.
Conflict
World leaders react to Trump’s Jerusalem announcement
A general view shows part of Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock.
Conflict
Why moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is so controversial
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
The dance, The Hill, by Roy Assaf had it's American premiere at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival this summer.
Arts
An Israeli choreographer reflects on the experience of war through dance
“Wake up. You’re a pawn.” A former skinhead’s message to the alt-right.
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Teklit Michael, 29, an asylum seeker from Eritrea
Justice
Israel has developed a system for pushing out refugees it doesn’t want
A White House in Crisis, Inside Immigration Detention, Love Letters to Africa
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People walk past signs bearing the name of U.S. President-elect Republican Donald Trump in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 14, 2016.
Conflict
Israel develops new ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir
Trump’s approach to the Middle East
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