Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says a two-state solution is the ‘best outcome’ for both Israelis and Palestinians. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

According to the poll, sponsored by the L.A. Jewish Journal, 53 percent of those surveyed said Congress should approve the deal, while 35 percent said Congress should oppose it, compared to 41 percent and 38 percent, respectively, in the general population.

As President Barack Obama works to stop Republicans from amassing two-thirds majorities against his Iran deal in Congress, a group of 18 Jewish House Democrats is emerging as a key voting bloc — and they’re being treated as such by advocates on both sides.

Prominent members of the country’s security establishment have come out at various stages of the negotiations in support of the Obama administration’s efforts.

Senior administration officials in Washington said on Wednesday they had reached the conclusion that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not interested in any nuclear arrangement with Iran – except for one in which Tehran completely capitulates but is denied sanctions relief in return.

“A year after Operation Protective Edge, I traveled from Israel to visit my family in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are suffering from high rates of unemployment, violence, and drug use,” writes Thair Abu-Rass.

One year since the beginning of the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Palestinians, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are left with huge scars of war. Many are still homeless, waiting for reconstruction to begin in the blockaded enclave.

Theories are swirling in Gaza over who was responsible for a series of recent IS-linked car bomb attacks in the coastal enclave.

An Israeli settlement watchdog group says Israel has advanced plans to build or retroactively approve 1,065 housing units in illlegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s National Labor Court rejected an appeal by Palestinian workers from the Nitzanei Shalom Industrial Zone this past Sunday, ruling that they will continue to be subject to the Jordanian labor laws of 1967, rather than Israeli laws.

Bulldozers under the armed guard of Israeli forces demolished two homes in the Bedouin villages of Hura and Khashem Zanna in the Negev on Wednesday, local sources said.

sraeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during an arrest operation in the West Bank on Thursday, a hospital official said, making this the second killing in the last 24 hours.

The Knesset gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill enabling the government to resume funneling money to the World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division, an unsupervised pipeline for funds to West Bank settlements. This, despite Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber’s stated opinion last February that the state was forbidden from funding the Settlements Division, as it was operating without oversight or public transparency.