TEL AVIV — At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There’s laughter, there’s life. But all around the patrons, staring ...

Over the decades, “normal life” in Israel has looked very different from normal life in most every other country in the rest of the world. That’s because Israel has been surrounded by mortal enemies ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When sirens and cellphone alerts blare warnings of missiles incoming from Iran, people in Israel stream into shelters, turning parking garages, metro stations and basements ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — In Beirut, shops are open and traffic is as snarled as ever. In Tel Aviv, cafes hum with patrons and umbrellas sprout across crowded beaches. Such scenes may seem surreal in a ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There’s laughter, there’s life. But all around the ...

Israel this week says, after its intense onslaught in Gaza, that it will now turn its focus to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. For months, Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire on their shared ...

If you want a deeper understanding of Israel’s situation in the Middle East, a good place to start is the website of the Jaffa Hotel in Tel Aviv, which came up recently under a list of the world’s ...

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