Israel
Vox’s coverage of Israel, from the Israel-Palestine conflict to Israel’s elections to its relationship with the US and more. You can find more coverage of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel here or by following Vox’s storystream of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
The organization provides food, education, and health care for nearly 5 million refugees.
“I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen a full-blown war yet,” one expert said.
She was just released after spending eight months in an Israeli prison.
Supporters call Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law a “defining moment.” Critics say it’s “apartheid.”
It probably won’t lead to war, but the situation keeps escalating.
“You showed courage on the playing field, and today you showed the same courage in the streets of Iran.”
Will her husband, Benjamin Netanyahu, be next?
Israel’s violence in Gaza is giving new life to the movement.
The harsh reality of Trump’s embassy move — and how it relates to the deadliest day in Israel-Palestine since 2014.
“We believe Hamas, as an organization, is engaged in cynical action that’s leading to these deaths,” said deputy press secretary Raj Shah.
The Christian apocalyptic theology behind Trump’s controversial US Embassy move to Jerusalem.
Hint: It has to do with burning lakes of fire.
It’s the national representative of the Palestinian people (nominally), and runs the government in the West Bank but not in Gaza.
Israel’s current capital, which Palestinians claim part of for their future capital, is home to holy sites for both Judaism and Islam.
An Arab word for “catastrophe,” it signals a mass eviction from the 1940s that created a refugee crisis.
In brief, it’s Israel’s national ideology, with Judaism serving as both a nationality and religion.
European Jews arrived at Zionism partly because of rising antisemitic persecution.
They were two Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
A comprehensive guide to the basics of the world’s most controversial conflict.
“This is an extremely dangerous situation.”
There’s a suspicion of a possible Iranian attack.
Each side has set red lines that could easily be crossed.
She turned down Israel’s Nobel Prize — and kicked off a major firestorm.
Israeli forces have killed nearly 30 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more in two weeks of mass protests at the Gaza border.
A haunting new novel lays out a nightmarish vision of America’s future.
Trump’s closest Mideast ally could be headed to prison.
It’s because the occupation makes finding other jobs really, really hard.
Mahmoud Abbas’s last stand.
“Today we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.”
An embassy move is on hold, but the president plans to declare Jerusalem the capital on Wednesday.
A Palestinian civil war is making independence seem further away than ever before.
“There will be rot rather than dramatic change.” —Elizabeth Saunders
The president has offended Israelis of all stripes — and he hasn’t left yet.
Prosecutors are weighing charges that could send the Israeli prime minister to jail.
“The most heartbreaking part of this process was seeing the fruition of Islamophobia in our own party,” one DNC voting member said.
President Trump isn’t allowing Tillerson to shape policy, choose staff, or speak to the press.
David Friedman’s controversial positions on Israel prompted protests and skepticism.
The Trump administration might have just totally shifted the US’s stance on Israel and Palestine (it’s kind of unclear?), and that is somehow only the second-biggest story of the day.
Trump’s Israel policy sounds more like the past than the future.
A new statement on settlement building has people rather perplexed.