Josef Federman

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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Hall of Fame inductee Jay Leno speaks on stage at the 2014 Television Academy Hall of Fame at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif. In an interview on Thursday, May 8, 2014, Leno says the recent collapse of U.S.-backed Mideast peace talks should make his job just a little easier when he performs in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the month. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

Leno to host award ceremony in Israel

Josef Federman · May 8, 2014 10:39 pm

Kerry ‘apartheid’ comments tap into Israeli debate

Josef Federman · May 1, 2014 6:41 pm

FILE - In this March 14, 2011 file photo, a general view of a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit. An Israeli watchdog group says Israel increased settlement work four-fold during the latest round of peace talks, pushing forward with construction of nearly 14,000 new homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Peace Now issued its statistics on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, as a nine-month negotiating period came to a close. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had envisioned a final peace agreement when he brought the sides together last July. But negotiations made no progress and were characterized by a lack of trust, in large part because of continued Israeli settlement construction in captured territories claimed by the Palestinians. According to Peace Now, Israel promoted plans or issued tenders for construction of 13,851 homes during the talks. It said the level of construction quadrupled compared to recent years. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Group: Israel upped settlement work during talks

Josef Federman · April 29, 2014 1:29 pm

File -- In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2007 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, attends Muslim prayers at a mosque adjacent to his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas called the Holocaust "the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history." His comments, published Sunday by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, marked a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide. Some 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

Abbas calls Holocaust ‘most heinous crime’

Josef Federman · April 27, 2014 8:56 pm

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, shows a copy of a singed agreement while siting next to senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad during their press conference after the announcement of an agreement between the two rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, at Haniyeh's residence in Shati Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Hamas and Fatah made a new attempt Wednesday to overcome the Palestinians' political split, saying they would seek to form an interim unity government within five weeks, followed by general elections by December at the earliest. It was not clear how the new attempt announced Wednesday would succeed where previous ones failed, since the fundamental difficulties remain in place. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

National Security

Israel halts peace talks with Palestinians

Josef Federman · April 24, 2014 7:48 pm

Jewish settler listen to a gesturing Palestinian woman as Jewish settler families move belongings into a contested house, seen behind, in the volatile city of Hebron after a protracted legal battle, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Settlers first moved into the building in 2007, but were evicted by the army amid legal issues over how they obtained the property, but they are now re-occupying the property after a court recently found the purchase of the home to be legitimate.(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Israeli coalition shows signs of growing tensions

Josef Federman · April 13, 2014 8:49 pm

Women hold portraits of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails during a rally calling for their release in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Arabic on the posters read, "Dean of prisoners, Karim Younis, 21 years in prison." (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

National Security

Imprisoned spy may be key for Kerry on peace talks

Josef Federman · April 2, 2014 8:40 pm

Israeli court convicts ex-PM Olmert of bribery

Josef Federman · March 31, 2014 3:52 pm

US mediators try to rescue Mideast peace talks

Josef Federman · March 30, 2014 2:20 pm

Ex-employee of Israeli PM sues over alleged abuse

Josef Federman · March 20, 2014 2:38 pm

Palestinians seek to drill for oil in West Bank

Josef Federman · March 18, 2014 7:38 pm

Israel passes law meant to draft ultra-Orthodox

Josef Federman · March 12, 2014 2:41 pm