Ben Lynfield

Charities struggle to feed Israel's poor

Abbas in dilemma over settlements

Egyptian who threatened to burn Israeli books to get UN job

Culture minister Farouk Hosni is the favourite to win the UN’s top cultural post in an election that begins next week.

Hamas’s new enemy? Even more radical Islamist set

Cautious optimism as PA economy booms

Changes to Fatah boost pragmatists

Ben Lynfield in Bat Ayin

The hill of discontent, where violence grows by the day

But one Arab baker doesn’t care. He’s rushed off his feet at Pesach

Northern Israel in economic crisis

Analysis: Arab view bleaker than ever

War weakened Abbas, Palestinians warn

President Mahmoud Abbas has been politically wounded by the Gaza war, with Hamas enjoying a surge of popularity in the West Bank, according to Palestinian analysts.

Israeli Arabs pelt police with stones

Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrated this week over Israel’s aerial bombardments in Gaza, widely described by them as a “massacre”.