Haaretz has learned that the far-right national security minister held discussions on the matter with senior police officers - even though Attorney General Gala Baharav-Miara ruled that the policy of barring demonstrators from blocking major arteries exceeds the minister's authority

By quashing this option, the U.S. president saved Israel from an act of immense stupidity that would have forced other governments to come to terms with the death of the two-state solution

It's doubtful an Israeli minister has ever gone on a trip quite like this

Israeli officials are using ultranationalist ideology to shape policy on all fronts, making it clear they're unwilling to live either with or beside Palestinians

Israelis complain the world obsesses over what's happening here while ignoring other conflicts. What really bothers us is when they stop noticing