Israel has a long history of inventive, unusual assassination methods, and reports that at least nine people have been killed by exploding pagers could be its latest grim chapter. As of Tuesday night, ...

Faith, History, and Who Belongs in Israel. The land of Israel, often called the Holy Land, is sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Yet the way each faith relates to this ...

Mount Scopus tells a different story, one of ancient roots, modern rebuilding, tragedy, resilience, and coexistence. It shows that Israel’s presence in Jerusalem is not about exclusion, but continuity ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that Israel’s military will soon launch an invasion of Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip. More than 1 million Palestinians, now on the verge of ...

All weekend long, in countless commentaries in the media, in painful telephone calls with friends in Israel, came the march of analogies, the inevitable attempts to make sense of the incomprehensible.

“We want Israel to be our synagogue. … OK, well, Israel’s a state. It’s not a synagogue, and it’s going to make a whole set of calculations,” said Tal Becker, an Israeli lawyer and diplomatic adviser, ...

Millions of artifacts and archaeological discoveries from across Israel are now just a click away, thanks to the new Israel National Archaeological Database, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ...

The state of Israel has a history of great violence, visited on it by its enemies and in return by Israel's own intelligence services and military. In "Rise and Kill First," journalist and author ...

To be vigilant—to live without illusions about the ever-present threat of annihilation—was a primary value at No. 4 Haportzim Street, once the Jerusalem address of the Netanyahu family. This wariness ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with journalists and experts about the possible normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. UNIDENTIFIED PILOT: Captain speaking. I would like to inform you ...