TIA GOLDENBERG

Reporter and producer

Goldenberg is an Associated Press reporter and producer covering Israel and the Palestinian territories. She previously reported on East and West Africa from Nairobi.

Jewish settlers work at a seminary under construction that was built overnight in the West Bank outpost of Homesh, Monday, May 29, 2023. Settlers built the religious school months after Israel's far-right government repealed a 2005 act that had dismantled the outpost. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Jewish settlers erect religious school in evacuated West Bank outpost after Israel repeals ban

Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built a religious school at a dismantled outpost. The announcement Monday comes after Israel’s far-right government in March repealed a 2005 act that dismantled four West Bank settlements and banned Israelis from reentering the areas.

Smoke and fire rise from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Gaza, Saturday, May 13, 2023. The building was owned by an Islamic Jihad official. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

Israeli cease-fire with militants in Gaza appears to hold, despite new rocket launch

In an early test for the truce, Palestinian militants fired a rocket that landed in an open area of southern Israel Sunday evening. Palestinian media said the launch was caused by a technical error as militants were trying to deactivate the rocket.

Omer Easa from Sudan poses for a portrait inside the offices of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, a rights group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, April 30, 2023. "My heart is there. My head is there. It is just that my body is here," said Easa, 31, a political dissident who fled the war-torn region of Darfur in 2012. "We live here often thanks to the graces of the Supreme Court." (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Sudan migrants in Israel worry over future, fighting at home

“My heart is there. My head is there. It is just that my body is here,” said Easa, 31, who said he fled the war-torn region of Darfur in 2012 over concerns for his life. “We live here often thanks to the graces of the Supreme Court.”

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, in front of the flags left, and his Israeli counterpart, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, in front of the flags right, attend a bilateral meeting at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, April 30, 2023. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

US House speaker in Knesset amid fraught US-Israel ties

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed the speech as a nod to bipartisan U.S. support for Israel as it marks 75 years since its creation. Critics say the platform given to McCarthy — he’s only the second House speaker to address the Knesset, after Newt Gingric

Palestinians: Israeli fire kills teen in West Bank raid

The Israeli military said gunmen opened fire at soldiers on an arrest raid and the troops shot back. The military has been staging near-nightly raids in West Bank cities, towns and villages in what it says is an attempt to stamp out militancy. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire

Florida Gov. DeSantis says Disney lawsuit is political

“They’re upset because they’re having to live by the same rules as everybody else. They don’t want to pay the same taxes as everybody else and they want to be able to control things without proper oversight,” DeSantis said during a visit to Israel. “The days of putting one company on a pedestal with

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement before entering the district court in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 24, 2020. Netanyahu's corruption trial has resumed after a month-long break. The resumption refocuses the spotlight on the long-serving leader's legal woes after a wave of protests over his government's plan to overhaul the country's judiciary. (AP Photo/Yonatan Sindel/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What is the latest on Netanyahu’s corruption trial?

Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate scandals involving powerful media moguls and wealthy associates. He denies wrongdoing.

Palestinians, Israel spar over US mission in Jerusalem

The Palestinians have slammed Israel for rejecting the promised reopening of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Sunday that Israel, as an occupying power, could not veto the U.S. decision.

With Sheldon Adelson’s death, Netanyahu loses key supporter

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson “will forever be remembered” for his work strengthening ties between the U.S. and Israel. Adelson’s death at 87 was announced earlier Tuesday.

Israel eases some lockdown measures as virus cases decline

Israel has decided to relax some of the restrictions imposed during a monthlong nationwide lockdown to drive down a raging coronavirus outbreak.

Israel OKs more than 3,000 West Bank settlement homes

Israel is pressing forward on plans for more than 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. Thursday’s new approvals, coupled with a separate round of new units approved the previous day, make 2020 one of the most prolific years for settlement building.

After UAE-Israel deal, Kushner slams Palestinian leaders

Top White House advisor Jared Kushner says that the Palestinian leadership’s credibility has fallen to an “all time low” and that the Trump administration wouldn’t “chase” the Palestinians over a peace deal if they continued to reject their every overture.

Israeli court releases anti-Netanyahu activist after arrest

A former Israeli air force general who has been leading protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his arrest over the weekend was “worth the price” if it helps rally public support to his cause.

Israel’s Golan Druze see a blow in wind energy plan

Towering wind turbines may soon jut up from the picturesque patchwork of Druze farmland in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, angering villagers who see the renewable energy project as a threat to their agrarian way of life, an encroachment on ancestral lands and a solidification of Israel’s occu

Watchdog: Israel pushes ahead with hundreds of settler homes

A watchdog group says Israel is moving forward with more than 2,300 new settler West Bank housing units.

Jerusalem to remove UN agency for Palestinians from city

Jerusalem’s mayor says he plans to remove a U.N. agency that supports Palestinians from the city, accusing the body of operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel.

UN concerned over expected demolition of West Bank village

The U.N.'s main human rights body is expressing concern over Israel’s expected demolition of a Bedouin hamlet in the West Bank. The U.N.

Israel calls on EU to end funding to pro-boycott groups

Israel is calling on the European Union to halt funding to more than a dozen European and Palestinian non-governmental organizations that it says promote boycotts against Israel.

Israel’s African migrants in limbo after Netanyahu reversal

Israel’s stunning reversal on a deal to resettle some of its 35,000 African migrants in Western countries is the latest twist in a policy that has careened from detentions to deportations.

Israel lists 20 groups to be denied entry over boycott calls

Israel has published a list of 20 organizations from around the globe whose members are to be denied entry for advocating boycotts against the country over Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.

Israel finds no wrongdoing in paraplegic Palestinian’s death

The Israeli military says an investigation into the fatal shooting of a paraplegic Palestinian man has determined there were no “moral or professional failures” in his death.

Leading tattoo artists help wounded Israelis with scars

Leading tattoo artists are helping wounded Israelis cover up the scars of tragedy and loss. At an event organized by a group called Artists 4 Israel, 11 tattoo artists from around the world splashed bold graphics on the wounded Israelis this week, transforming their pain into a source of pride.

Israel accuses Gaza manager of World Vision of funding Hamas

Israeli military appoints rabbi who appeared to permit rape

The Israeli military has been criticized for appointing a rabbi who has disparaged female soldiers and once appeared to justify the rape of non-Jewish enemies. The military says it has summoned Rabbi Col.

Israeli military cracks down on weapons in the West Bank

An Israeli military commander says Israel has seized dozens of weapons, shuttered arms-making factories and arrested weapons dealers in a crackdown in the West Bank meant to quell a spate of Palestinian violence.

Israeli court sentences 2 over Palestinian teenager’s murder

An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Israeli minors for the murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian in 2014, sending one to life in prison for a crime that provoked deep soul-searching in Israel and was one of a series of events that led to the Gaza war later that year.

Report: US donors pump millions into Israeli settlements

The Haaretz daily found that some 50 nonprofit organizations from across the U.S. were raising funds for settlements in the West Bank, an area the Palestinians want as part of a future state, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Israel captured all three areas in the 1967 Mideast war.

West Bank settlers vote although outside of sovereign Israel

Over the years, Israel has cultivated a separate legal system there. The Palestinians are ultimately governed by Israeli military rule — while Israel’s own criminal and civilian laws apply to more than 350,000 Jewish settlers in a way they cannot apply to Israeli expats.

‘Sacred Sperm’ film explores ultra-Orthodox Jewish taboos

JERUSALEM (AP) — Like so many parents, Ori Gruder was grappling with how to talk to his 10-year-old son about sex.

Gaza war deals blow to Israel’s tourism industry

“Our challenge is how to prevent more cancelations. Despite a month having passed since the war, there is still an image among tourists that it is not safe to travel here,” said Oded Grofman of the Israel Incoming Tour Operators Association.