Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

Police have shuttered the main highway linking Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, a critical artery for central Israel, and ordered evacuations along the route as thick smoke and advancing An image from Windy ...

Katz says Israel will do to Iran what it did to Hezbollah • Israel strikes south Lebanon • If Israel doesn't wake up, US will ...

Image People evacuated as fires neared the central ... Palestinian firefighters joined Israeli efforts to beat back a similar wildfire near Jerusalem. Israeli officials did not respond to requests ...

reg/acc/ami This is an AI generated representative image Israeli police on Wednesday closed the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway and evacuated residents along the route as brushfires broke out ...

open image in gallery Firefighters work to extinguish a fire burning in the Latrun area in central Israel between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (EPA) The fire prompted concerns over the safety of ...

Tanya Sirakovich, chief curator of Fine Arts at the Israel Museum, envisions the institution as a living space where past and ...

With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the 133 cardinals returned to the Vatican residences where they are being sequestered.

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to find a new leader of the 1.4-billion-member ...

Black smoke, signifying no pope, has emerged from the Sistine Chapel in the first decision of the conclave to elect a new ...