West Bank shows second-highest growth in housing starts, second only to Jerusalem, with 1,195 housing starts in the first half of 2016.

Mrs. Obama's mission: To rally the groups who were so crucial to her husband's two White House wins - young people and black voters.

Republican senator who pushed for additional U.S. military aid to Israel attacks prime minister for inking deal with Obama administration. 'I think Bibi is in a bad spot, politically.'

Palestinian assailant fatally shot by Israeli security forces after two Palestinians and one Jordanian shot and killed in three unrelated attacks in Jerusalem, Hebron and Kiryat Arba.

'As Israel escalates its assaults on our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the American Administration, which backs the Israeli occupation, puts me on the so-called world's terrorists' list,' Fathi Ahmad Mohammad Hammad says.

As he was wrapping up his presidency, Israel's last founding father grasped that nothing productive would come from Benjamin Netanyahu and started to create bypass routes in order to reach an agreement with the Palestinians; his dream of such a deal now seems further away than ever.

An official with Algeria's Islamic Renaissance Movement accuses the Algerian education ministry of 'abolishing Palestine and replacing it with the Zionist entity.'

Arrivals / Departures: Mohammed al-Marana, in Israel for Id al-Adha, reminisces about the 'amazing' Jewish-Arab cooperation on his kibbutz youth soccer team; Zélie Alfandari, a 14-year-old cellist on her way home to Paris expresses enthusiasm for Israeli nature.