Tzipi Livni

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, is leading a bipartisan CODEL -- a congressional delegation -- to Israel. The group leaves Monday. The group will visit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader......

Obama named Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff and faced pressure to begin dealing with the economy immediately, with Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner rising to the top of the Treasury Dept. list. After rising on his win......

Israel's prime minister and defense minister tried to move their country closer to an attack on Iran in 2010 but military and security chiefs resisted, an Israeli television program reported....

In a surprise turnabout, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to cancel the early election he had called just 24 hours before and instead form a unity government with opposition party Kadima, Israeli officials said Tuesday....

Chen Guangcheng: Blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng does not want political asylum and will instead stay in China with assurances from the Chinese government he and his family can live normally, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday....

No resolution to the diplomatic challenges facing the United States and China over what happens to blind dissident Chen Guangcheng is likely to both ease Chinese embarrassment and cast the Obama administration as a staunch defender of human rights,...

Dozens of right-wing Israeli militants who support the settlement movement infiltrated an army regional division headquarters in the West Bank, set tires on fire, vandalized vehicles and scattered nails on the road. Senior officers also were attacked with...

"Beit Shemesh" means "the house of sun," but these days many see it as a dark place where religious extremists defy authorities, intimidate children and attack the press. Naama Margolese, a third-grader afraid to walk to school, becomes a symbol....

The Arab League is pressing ahead with a heavily criticized observer mission in Syria, saying it will increase the number of monitors and calling on all sides to halt months of bloodshed. The head of the observers briefed an Arab League ministerial...

Yair Lapid, a popular Israeli news anchor and television personality, is quitting journalism and heading for politics, local media reported Sunday....

The teacher who was shot dead at a Jewish school in France on Monday was Jonathan Sandler, 30. He and two sons, 3 and 6, were killed by a gunman who drove up to the Ozar-Hatorah school and started shooting....

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has lost the chairmanship of the centrist party Kadima to her rival, Shaul Mofaz, according to near-final results in Tuesday primaries....