Renewed proposal for an emirate that recognizes the Jewish state was positively received by Economy Minister Nir Barkat this ...

A survey released over the weekend by Channel 12 News in Israel revealed that 82% of Israelis support a hostage deal that would include an end to the war (some reports in the Israeli media said that ...

Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari — one of the most influential leaders in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest region — urged Israel and ...

Nir Barkat, Israel’s minister of economy and industry, is warning American universities to crack down on antisemitism.

Nir Barkat, a member of the Knesset, is not a household name in the U.S. or Israel, despite his two terms as mayor of Jerusalem. Now a member of the main opposition party, Likud, Barkat has never ...

The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, announced today (Friday) to the Minister of Economy and Industry, Nir Barkat, that he opposes his decision from April 10 regarding the imposition of a ...

Nir Barkat, former mayor of Jerusalem and current member of Israel's Knesset, warned that Iran poses too big of a threat to Israel for the Jewish state not to take action.

In February, Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, was on his way to City Hall when he spotted an 18-year-old Palestinian wielding a knife. The teenager had just stabbed an Orthodox Jew and appeared to ...

Barkat has come under increasing pressure to leave the government in recent weeks, and it has intensified after Gantz resigned.

Nir Barkat, the former Jerusalem mayor who hopes to succeed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as leader of Likud, said Netanyahu got his “considerations” wrong and should have stepped aside in ...

Nir Barkat, Israel’s minister of economy and industry, is warning American universities to crack down on antisemitism.