World Feb 04 Sheldon Adelson Winning Israel’s Newspaper War Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam attend a speech by then-U.S. presidential contender Mitt Romney in Jerusalem on July 29, 2012. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images. TEL AVIV, Israel -- About five years ago, Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire casino…
World Feb 01 Peace Processed: Israelis and Palestinians Further Apart Than Ever Protesters in the West Bank. Photos by P.J. Tobia/NewsHour. WEST BANK -- The mixed group of a few dozen Palestinian activists and Europeans milled about in front of a coil of razor wire that blocked off the street near…
World Jan 30 Inside a Bomb-Proof Israeli Hospital Will Israel take military action against Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon? It is a question that has been asked and answered in dozens of different ways over the last year, with heated…
World Jan 30 Hospital-Bunker in Tel Aviv, Just in Case Tel Aviv in Israel has a hospital built almost completely underground in case of a conventional, chemical or biological missile attack against the city. See photos of it here.
World Jan 28 Golan, a Patchwork of Steel and Soil A destroyed tank in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, with Syrian hills in the background. All photos by P.J. Tobia/PBS NewsHour. When people in the United States think of the Golan Heights, they very likely focus on the bloody Six-Day…
World Jan 22 In Israel, Economic Inequality and Education on Voters’ Minds Young Israelis campaign for Naftali Bennett. All photos by P.J. Tobia/PBS NewsHour. TEL AVIV, Israel -- Though the outcome of Tuesday's parliamentary elections may not be much of a mystery, Israelis from many sides of the political spectrum brought…
World Sep 04 Killer Infiltrators Threaten Afghan Community Policing Effort An Afghan Local Police (A.L.P.) carries his weapon as he walks with German soldiers on March 27. Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images. For years, U.S. military commanders from the president on down have been touting the importance of training Afghanistan's…
World Jul 06 Syria’s Turncoat General Could Embolden Assad’s Enemies The drip of defections by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime over the past few weeks is beginning to look like a steady stream. France confirmed Friday that Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass, the leader of an elite army…
World Jul 06 The Upside of a Nuclear-Armed Iran: A Chat With Kenneth Waltz Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities in 2008. Photo by the Office of the Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran via Getty Images. Among a certain group of international relations and foreign affairs…
World Jun 15 Disagreement on the Road to Damascus EmbedVideo(3629, 482, 304); On Wednesday's NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown hosted a discussion about Syria's bloody uprising, specifically, Russia's attempts to block international intervention in the conflict. The discussion featured former State Department and National Security Council official Michele…