Students in Gaza will soon have the option of taking Hebrew classes for the first time in nearly two decades.

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Gaza Journal: Hamas-Run Schools in Gaza Set Out to Teach Hebrew

The deal between Fatah and Hamas outlines work on registering voters for elections that would bring in a new unity government.

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Hamas and Fatah Agree in Cairo to Begin Work on Elections

In a signed deal, Israeli authorities agreed to provisions like returning those in solitary confinement to the general prison population.

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Palestinians in Israeli Jails End Hunger Strike

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said millions of dollars from the “extreme right wing” in the United States helped oust him from government and derailed a peace plan with the Palestinians.

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Olmert: U.S. right wing derailed peace

The provocative move, defended by the Netanyahu government as fixing technical issues, marked the first establishment of new settlements in two decades.

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Israel Retroactively Legalizes 3 West Bank Settlements

The Israeli minister of defense ordered the eviction of a group of Jewish settlers from a contested house, although the government has signaled support for more settlements.

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Israeli Police Evict Jewish Settlers From Hebron House

The one-state solution posits that the ongoing attempts to forge a two-state solution, one Israel and one Palestine, are a failure and untenable going forward. Following up on my initial piece on this subject, I now turn to the hurdles that would need to be overcome in order to accomplish a single state where both Israelis and Palestinians live in peace. The lines between separate states are blurring, argues Ahmed Moor, a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School and co-organizer of the recent One State Conference . 20% of Israelis are of Arab descent and 17% of the residents in the Occupied Territories are Jewish settlers. Israel is exercising control over Palestinian land and people in the West Bank by the construction of security walls that cleave cities and separate farmers from their land, and by destroying wells or buildings built without Israeli permits. Israeli settlements are expanding in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prevents an occupying force from moving its citizens onto occupied lands. So, the argument would go, if Israel controls who and what comes and goes in the West Bank and Gaza, exercises the right to build its own structures while destroying those built by Palestinians and maintains a security and military presence within the territories, how do we not already have a single, albeit imbalanced, state?

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Is a Single State the Solution? Tackling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part Two

Israel tightens security along its disputed borders in anticipation of a series of planned demonstrations by Palestinians and their supporters.

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Israel alert for Land Day rallies

Tensions had been running high among members at the venerable Park Slope institution over the issue of whether to stop selling Israeli-made products.

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Park Slope Food Co-op Rejects Effort to Boycott Israeli-Made Products

US lawmakers release $88.6m (£56m) in development aid for the Palestinians that has been frozen since for more than six months.

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US aid to Palestinians released

Israeli authorities agreed to release Khader Adnan in April if no major new evidence is brought against him.

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Khader Adnan, Palestinian Hunger Striker, to Be Freed

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority embraced reconciliation with the Hamas movement, but much remains to be done, and the effect on a bid for Palestinian statehood remains unknown.

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Unity Deal Brings Risks for Abbas and Israel

JERUSALEM — Israel temporarily banished a dozen suspected Jewish extremists from the West Bank on Thursday as part of a crackdown ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a series of attacks on Palestinians and the military. An army statement said that the top military commander in the West Bank had signed “administrative removal orders” for 12 Jewish activists for periods ranging from three to nine months. The statement added that the group had been involved in “leading, directing and carrying out widespread violent and clandestine activities” against Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank. Read full article > >

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Jewish militants banned from West Bank

Some 550 Palestinian prisoners are being released in the second half of a swap that freed one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who had been held by Hamas for more than five years.

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Israel Begins Second Part of Prisoner Swap

The rapidly closing window for campaigning puts new pressure on the candidates and their campaigns to respond quickly and aggressively to moments from the debate.

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The Caucus: Debate Reverberates Going Into Final Stretch