The Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry facilitated contacts between an American company and the Israel Land Authority over a proposed U.S. army base in Israel, as intermediaries rush to stake claims in what could become a multibillion-shekel project

Even as the war in Gaza raged, a group of Israeli researchers forged quiet bonds with Palestinian refugees to bring to light the history of a village depopulated in Israel's 1948 War of Independence

The detainees include elected members of the Jaffa Muslim Council, among them its deputy chairman, who led a rally after a pregnant woman was pepper-sprayed. The protest followed a women's march calling for authorities to curb violence in the city