(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election on Tuesday after exit polls showed he had erased his center-left rivals' lead with a hard rightward shift that saw him disavow a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state. Difficult coalition...

(Reuters) - Flagging in opinion polls before Tuesday's election in  Israel , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally rightists by casting his center-left challengers as tools of a global campaign to usurp power. Over social media and broadcast interviews, the...

A new poll conducted in Israel has recorded an increase among Israelis who believe that Palestinian resistance movement  Hamas  defeated the self-proclaimed Jewish state during last summer's offensive against the  Gaza  Strip. According to the survey, conducted by...

(Reuters) - In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief...