Abbas rejects ideas posed by US retired general John Allen, enlisted by Obama to analyze the security aspects of any future agreement; ideas ''would only lead to prolonging, maintaining the occupation,'' PA official says.Abbas rejects ideas posed by US retired general John Allen, enlisted by Obama to analyze the security aspects of any future agreement; ideas ''would only lead to prolonging, maintaining the occupation,'' PA official says.

December 2, 2013 – New York – In response to the dramatic events unfolding in Ukraine, AJC Executive Director David Harris issued a statement.

As US Secretary of State returns to Israel Wednesday at the height of diplomatic tensions between Washington and Jerusalem over Iran, the European Union expresses dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wants to put pressure on both sides.

For the first time a unique educational center dedicated to the life of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, was inaugurated in Budapest, the city where he was born and where he worked in his earlier years.

PM, predecessor go head-to-head over Iran approach; Olmert: Netanyahu has ''declared war'' on US by slamming ally's role in brokering deal.

Diskin calls for settlement freeze outside main blocs, to stop settlement growth from getting out of control.

Erekat asks US secretary of state to save talks; other PLO officials complain no progress has been made in talks, and say US bias in favor of Israel ''does not serve peace''; Kerry to arrive in Israel Wednesday night.

New York mayor to receive prize in May; still unknown which organizations will be assisted by the prize money.

On four-year anniversary of incarceration, State Department calls on Havana to release Alan Gross ‘immediately, unconditionally’

Comments come amid tensions between Israel, US and poll revealing half of all Israeli's want less dependence on Washington.