Israel's transport minister is pushing ahead with a plan to extend Jerusalem's soon-to-open high speed rail line to the Western Wall, where he wants to name a future station after President Donald Trump.

A security guard has been stabbed in Jerusalem as protests and demonstrations take place across the world following US president Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The defence minister of Israel is calling for a boycott of Arab businesses where residents carried out violent protests against the US president's recognition of Jerusalem as his country's capital.

Recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel pulls down the curtains, turns on the lights, and spray paints yellow the 500lb gorilla in the room, says Peter Van Buren.

US President Donald Trump has declared it is time to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy has said Hamas must renounce violence and commit to negotiations with Israel if it wants to play a role in any Palestinian government.

The leader of Hamas has said his group has reached an agreement with the rival Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Egyptian-brokered talks about the terms of control of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to never evacuate Jewish settlements from occupied land has drawn outrage from Palestinians.

Two murals depicting an oversized Donald Trump have appeared on Israel's West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where elusive British artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year.

Two Israeli police officers have been killed by Palestinian attackers near a major shrine in Jerusalem, officials said.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he is hopeful after his first meeting with US president Donald Trump.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers have warned the US not to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying such a step could unleash new violence.

US President Barack Obama is warning that the "moment may be passing" for a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.

The ongoing building of illegal settlements is just one feature of a brutal occupation that foments Palestinian resentment, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe

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Dermot Walsh (Irish Examiner letters, May 17) seems to miss the fact that the Israeli state has been systematically oppressing and denying basic human rights to Palestinians since its formation.

The anti-Israel propaganda being spouted by the likes of Zoe Lawlor of Gaza Action Ireland would be funny were it not so one-sided and unjust.

A Jerusalem court has handed a life sentence to the main attacker in the killing of a Palestinian teenager in 2014 whose death helped spark a chain of events that led to that year’s Gaza war.

Two Palestinian gunmen have carried out shootings in Jerusalem before police shot and killed them, shortly before US vice president Joe Biden met prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the city, authorities said.

A person could read every pronouncement of Kevin McCarthy (Letters, December 18) and never appreciate that Israel is in illegal and brutal military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967 — the fundamental cause of the ongoing resistance.

Dr Kevin McCarthy, referring to the killing of Jewish settlers, Eiran and Naama Henkin, in the occupied West Bank on October 1, rightly states that there is nothing heroic about murdering parents in front of their children.

A Jewish Israeli man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected he was a Palestinian attacker, police said, in a reflection of the nervous mood that has gripped Israelis amid a spate of near-daily stabbings.

Israel has set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, and deployed soldiers in cities across the country, to combat the worst surge of violence in months.

Two Palestinians shot dead by police after three stabbing attacks

Israeli police have taken the unprecedented step of preventing Palestinian residents of Jerusalem from entering the walled Old City after two Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis.

Israel’s military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank after a drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler couple in front of their children as they were driving home.

Israeli police briefly clashed with Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early yesterday, raising tensions in the holy city ahead of the Jewish new year.

Exposing Israelis as serial perpetrators of injustice is not anti-Jewish. Anyone who makes objective, rational observations in advocating basic human rights and civilised dignity for Palestinians is criticised. 

When Brendan O’Brien again calls for people to support the BDS campaign against Israel, by reinforcing British film director, Ken Loach’s “call on London cinemas not to host the London Israeli Film and Television Festival”, because “it is at least partly promoted and financed by the Israeli government”, he justifies it as an equitable response to the suppression of a proposed Palestinian cultural festival in East Jerusalem in 2009 (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 13).

There is likely to be an angry backlash against Ken Loach and the many others who call on London cinemas not to host the London Israeli Film and Television Festival, which is at least partly promoted and financed by the Israeli government.

Alex Perry meets the would-be world leader Tony Blair

Israelis are voting in elections following a campaign focused on economic issues such as the high cost of living, rather than fears of a nuclear Iran or the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, trailing in opinion polls, used a strategic Jewish settlement he helped found as the backdrop for an election eve bid to win back right-wing votes.

A man and a boy featured in a chilling IS propaganda video showing the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens.

Copenhagen’s chief rabbi has attacked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for the “massive immigration” of European Jews to his country following the deadly shooting near the Danish capital’s main synagogue.

A 14-year-old Palestinian girl, tried before an Israeli military court for hurling rocks at passing cars in the West Bank and sentenced to two months in prison, was released yesterday. Two weeks had been cut from her sentence.

A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested by Israeli police.