Israelis Prepare to Celebrate the Year’s Holiest Days Under Lockdown
JERUSALEM — As Israelis prepare to celebrate the holiest days on the Jewish calendar under a fresh lockdown, organizing prayer services is proving to be...
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Trump’s Middle East Deal Is Good. But Not That Good.
The normalization of relations between Israel and two Arab states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, is, on the face of it, a good and...
The Love Triangle That Spawned Trump’s Mideast Peace Deal
Having covered Arab-Israel diplomacy for more than 40 years, I have to say that the normalization agreements signed Tuesday between Israel and the United Arab...
Trump Hosts Israel, U.A.E. and Bahrain at White House Signing Ceremony
WASHINGTON — Proclaiming that “there’s going to be peace in the Middle East,” President Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the foreign...
A Rare Middle East Triumph
For years, the Trump administration’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East have been the object of relentless derision in elite foreign-policy circles, some of it...
A White House Ceremony Will Celebrate a Diplomatic Win and Campaign Gift
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has long owed a debt to President Trump, who has repeatedly bestowed diplomatic gifts at crucial moments...
Palestinians Rejected Tax Money to Slap Israel. It’s Not Israel That’s Hurting.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Furious that Israel was about to annex large swaths of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, took the...
Bahrain Will Normalize Relations With Israel, Trump Says
President Trump announced on Friday that Bahrain will establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, following the United Arab Emirates, in another sign of shifting Middle...
The U.A.E.-Israel Flight Is Nothing to Celebrate
HAIFA, Israel — Last week, an Israeli airliner made its way from Israel to the United Arab Emirates in what was regarded a historical journey....
Netanyahu Privately Condoned U.S. Plan to Sell Arms to U.A.E., Officials Say
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel privately went along with a plan for the Trump administration to sell advanced weapons to the United...