In protest at an "outrageous" United Nations resolution, busloads of Hawke's Bay residents will travel to Parliament today to condemn

COMMENT: Sustaining the UN's declaration is the long-standing belief in the evolving justice to the two-state solution.

John Kerry, the outgoing US secretary of state, has issued a desperate final warning.

COMMENT: New Zealanders should be proud of the role their country played in getting the Security Council, after years of inaction.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says settlement growth in Israel means the prospects for a diplomatic solution are being "narrowed".

Israel's administration doesn't have any more sanctions planned for NZ after recalling ambassador Itzhak Gerberg and blocking NZ's ambassador from travelling there.

McCully was reportedly warned of a "declaration of war" if the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning Israel's continued settlements.

COMMENT: Israel faces an international backlash but NZ has much to learn about innovation from the plucky nation, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Israel bars Kiwi ambassador from entering the country in further fallout from the UN Security Council's resolution to condemn settlements in occupied territories.

More than 60,000 people from Israel's northern city of Haifa were evacuated from their homes Thursday and yesterday.

Nachum Schwartz is living his dream in a trailer on a windy hill, raising his children and a flock of sheep, as one of the chosen ones.

Watch NZH Focus: A Kiwi marathon swimmer has set a world record as part of a group who became the first people to swim across the Dead Sea.

NZ's foreign minister is making one last push to get a Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The US presidential election has become an object lesson in everything that ails a country long seen as a beacon of freedom and hope.

Green MP Marama Davidson has been released by Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv and is on her way back to New Zealand.

Green MP Marama Davidson is among a group of 13 women detained by Israeli authorities while in a flotilla trying to get to Gaza.

Israel has approved 284 housing units in the West Bank, drawing a US accusation that its policies could expand settlements in an "unlimited way".

COMMENT: Concerns about the game from Iran, Russia, Israel and China may are by no means unfounded on technical grounds.

COMMENT: As a small country, there are many similarities between New Zealand and Israel, a country I've been travelling around this week.

New Zealanders have great ideas but the commercialisation of them was "near zero", says Israeli entrepreneur Isaac Bentwich.

The French are pressing ahead with a multilateral Middle East peace conference, even though Israel will not be attending.

Israeli general's speech in which he compared today's Israel to Nazi-era Germany has drawn ire, and also support.

A British Labour MP's Facebook post has sparked debate about when criticism of Israel becomes anti-Semitism. Donna Miles-Mojab and Juliet Moses express differing views.

COMMENT: You can criticise any government in the world, any regime, and state, and it goes unnoticed - except Israel.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully says Israel's latest land seizure deserves response from UN Security Council.

At a time of simmering Mideast tensions and rising malaise, a group of French chefs recently visited the West Bank to bring a little joie de vivre to Palestinian kitchens.

An elderly woman is suing Israel's national airline for sexism, after she was asked to move seats because a man refused to sit next to her.

The serenity of Majdal Shams leaves Edna Heled at peace.

The British Government intends to ban public institutions in the country from themselves banning the purchase of goods from Israel.