Nir Barakat

Residents of Beit Safafa, near Jerusalem, are resisting a settler highway that would cause irreparable harm to their village.

An activist running the Jerusalem Marathon sought to bring attention to Israel’s rights abuses at the event.

The leader of Israel’s most right-wing government since the establishment of the state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington.