State apologises for the ‘tragic results’ of commando raid on blockade-breaking ship that left nine dead

A flawed, partisan portrait of the Israel Palestine conflict that misses an opportunity

Barack Obama boarded Air Force One today bringing to an end his three-day visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories that many hope will mark a fresh start in Israeli and Palestinian relations.

The great and the good of Israeli society descended on the presidential residence tonight for the social highlight of Barack Obama’s visit: the state dinner.

American President criticises Jewish settlements in occupied territories but offers few proposals

Barack Obama has arrived in Ramallah for talks with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in what some commentators have dubbed ‘Palestine Day’.

Marian Farhat, who died on 17 March aged 64, was a Palestinian lawmaker known as "the mother of martyrs" who praised and supported three of her sons who were killed while carrying out deadly attacks against Israelis.

The Orwell prize for books unveiled this year’s longlist today. Arifa Akbar - one of the judges - discusses what books were chosen and why

Demonstrators wearing Martin Luther King masks march on Hebron street closed to Palestinians

Barack Obama has landed in Israel, making his first visit to the Jewish state as US President and immediately vowing to maintain the "unbreakable bond" between the two countries.

So will it be tragedy, farce or tourism? Obama’s a tourist, so says the Davy Crockett of the American journalistic frontier and philosopher king of The New York Times (aka T Friedman, Esq), but he’s wrong. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Public Speech-making will be at least a super-tourist – with 10,000 armed Israeli and American tour guides in Jerusalem alone. Now that, Mr President, is the wall. No, not That Wall, we’re talking about the Ottoman palisade on each side of the city’s Damascus Gate.

Iran is at least a year away from successfully developing a nuclear weapon, according to Barack Obama who last night told Israeli television that the US would not stand back and allow Tehran to acquire such a weapon.

After weeks of angry public exchanges and protracted negotiations, Benjamin Netanyahu finally formed Israel’s new government today hours before an extended deadline expired.

An errant Hamas rocket probably killed the baby son of a BBC journalist in Gaza during the brief war between the Palestinian group and Israel last November, according to a UN report into the incident.