Israel and Palestine

Israel's next election is a battle for the country's soul - opinion

What is on the minds of Israeli voters as they prepare to head to the ballot box?

Israeli current opposition leader Yair Lapid (L) and former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett stand together in Tel Aviv on May 12, as they hold their inaugural conference of their ‘Together – Under Bennett’s Leadership’ party for the upcoming national election. Premium
FIFA President Gianni Infantino (C) interacts with the President of the Palestine Football Association Jibril Rajoub as the Vice-President of Israel Football Association Basim Sheikh Suliman (L) looks on during a heated moment in the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, Canada on April 30. PremiumPremium

Red card diplomacy: Palestine’s handshake foul rattles FIFA ahead of 2026 World Cup

Sari Bashi is an Israeli-American human rights lawyer, author, and activist specializing in international humanitarian law and Israeli policy.

'Upside-Down Love': An Israeli-Palestinian memoir of marriage across borders

A Palestinian archaeologist works on a lead sarcophagus discovered in Gaza City in early 2022. A common Israeli claim is that Palestinians have ‘no interest’ in antiquities.

'Heritage as a weapon': How West Bank digs became a tool of dispossession - opinion


Sigmar Gabriel is right

Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians in the territories is reminiscent of apartheid.

A Palestinian woman argues with Israeli army soldiers as she is searched at a checkpoint during clashes in the West Bank Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron

After US rebuke, Palestinian Authority could face deluge

At risk of losing American aid, the Palestinian leadership must make some tough decisions.

A Palestinian woman takes part in a protest against possible reductions of the services and aid offered by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in front of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City August 16, 2015.

WATCH LIVE: States explain their vote on Jerusalem embassy resolution

Trump threat to cut aid to states that vote in favor, ups the stakes in vote seen as forgone defeat for Israel.

Palestinian National Authority Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad Al Maliki speaks at the UN General Assembly

Abbas says Palestinians to seek full United Nations membership

“The US has chosen not to be a mediator for the peace process. We reject it as mediator. The US is with Israel and supports and backs it.”

The United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US

Palestinian shot after stabbing Israeli Border Police officer

Police says officer in moderate condition, investigating whether assailant wore an explosive vest while posing as a journalist.

Israeli border policemen stand away after shooting a Palestinian man with a knife and what looks like an explosive belt near Ramallah

Smuts and Weizmann

My great-grandfather’s love of Israel and South African Jews

Chaim Weizmann and Jan Smuts, circa 1915

How much money is Qatar spending on a facelift for Gaza?

Inside the quiet Qatari transformation of former Israeli settlements into snazzy new apartments for Gazans

Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh (R) and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani arrive at a cornerstone laying ceremony in the southern Gaza Strip

UN special envoy: No peace for Israel with Arabs while ignoring Palestinian statehood

Nickolay Mladenov talks to the ‘Post’ about a wide range of regional issues

Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General.

70 years of conflict later

While territorial division remains the focus of the peace process, some believe that the core issue of the conflict is a rejection of any Jewish sovereignty

DAVID BEN-GURION reads the declaration of Israel’s independence in Tel Aviv in 1948

Before any talks, the Palestinians must move from rejection to recognition

A fatal flaw meant that they were doomed to failure.

Participants run past Israeli barrier during Palestine Marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.