The Latest Breaking News from Israel

Israel's government is pressing ahead with its contentious plan to overhaul the country's legal system

The Biden administration has averted a potential diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements at the United Nations that had threatened to overshadow U.S. efforts to focus the world body on Russia’s war with Ukraine ahead of this week’s one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion

The United Arab Emirates told the U.N. Security Council that it will not call a vote on Monday on a draft resolution demanding Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory," according to a note seen by Reuters.

The U.N. Security Council will instead put out a presidential statement denouncing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has underscored the need for Israel to stop all unilateral measures, including settlement construction, home demolitions, raids on cities and villages, and extrajudicial killings. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held telephone talks with Abbas on Saturday to discuss the potential escalation and asked him not…

A senior Israeli diplomat on Saturday was asked to leave the session of the African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia, in a move that some observers saw as “an African rejection of a fait accompli that Israel wants to impose on the continent,” which has long fought colonialism. Meanwhile, Secretary-General…

Syrian state news reports that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a residential neighborhood in central Damascus

The Israel winger was embraced by the Brighton boss before entering the pitch as an 82nd-minute substitute

The U.S. envoy to Israel said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should slow progress on a judicial overhaul that could make it harder for Washington to help him promote ties with Saudi Arabia or deal with Iran.

A bloc official says the envoy was removed because she was not accredited to attend the event in Ethiopia.

One soldier among the dead when missiles hit densely populated central neighbourhood, state media report.