Agreeing to disagree is a lost art in the Middle East. Yossi Klein Halevi and Mohammed Dajani show us how it's done

Assailant, 60, taken to Jerusalem hospital in critical condition after approaching security forces at Gush Etzion Junction with a knife, failing to heed warnings

Top Pyongyang official says US to face 'grave situation' after US president called its nuclear program a 'serious threat' to US and world security in Congress speech last week

But Loay Elbasyouni, who grew up in Beit Hanoun before moving to US, says Israeli and Egyptian travel restrictions make visiting his hometown an even bigger challenge

Flags lowered to half-staff, cabinet meeting canceled, following country's deadliest peacetime disaster

Actor, model, and radio personality Walter Bingham was awarded the hoary title this month, but says he feels 50 years old on a bad day and doesn't know the meaning of retirement

Passengers kept unaware of threat; caller had claimed to US authorities that there were explosives on aircraft

Two families lost two children; Americans, a Canadian and Argentine man among fatalities of Israel's deadliest civilian disaster

Anti-PM demonstrators hold rally outside official residence two days after Lag B'Omer crush that killed 45

Caught in tug of war between authorities, religious sects and interest groups, Israel's 2nd most-visited Jewish holy place has no full, official state oversight

President makes appearance at US-Israeli meeting on Iran to express condolences over Meron tragedy, US says, downplaying earlier report suggesting more formal gathering

Military says Home Front Command Search and Rescue forces 'continued on their mission' after being accosted while searching for bodies and injured victims after deadly crush

Amir Ohana says scope of tragedy is 'far beyond' the cops; police chief says he 'will not rest until the circumstances that led to this disaster are made clear'

Some seriously injured see improvement; 44 bodies released for burial; police said to fear tens of thousands could flock to site to pay tribute to victims, leading to more danger

Disaster in 1911 underlines the perennial safety concerns, and failures, at the holy site where 45 ultra-Orthodox pilgrims were fatally crushed on Thursday night