EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump is trying to determine how keeping his promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem could affect his hopes of brokering a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, his secretary of state said on Sunday.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel faced repeated heckling at a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday before he apologized for his stinging criticism of liberal American Jews and promised to be less inflammatory in an official capacity.

EghtesadOnline: After an exhausting two days in Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Israel on Monday, attempting to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process with visits to Jerusalem and the West Bank.

EghtesadOnline: The Israeli politician with the best chance of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s encouraged by President Donald Trump’s early efforts to resurrect peace negotiations with the Palestinians -- even if he’s not convinced they’ll succeed.

EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration reiterated its concerns about Israeli settlement activity, the two sides said on Thursday, as a round of talks ended without agreement over limiting future construction on land the Palestinians want for a state.

EghtesadOnline: Vice President Mike Pence told an influential group of Jewish Republicans gathered in Las Vegas that the U.S. is “assessing” whether to move the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as he sought to assure a key constituency and political fundraising powerhouse of the administration’s commitment to their causes.

EghtesadOnline: Lebanese Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, said on Tuesday that should the US transfer its embassy to Qods, the Islamic countries too would close their embassies in Washington.

EghtesadOnline: France considers the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "confused and worrying", its foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to U.S. President Trump's dropping of the America's commitment to a two-state solution.

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump is already looming large over some of the most contentious issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians, emboldening some Israeli officials to take moves that threaten to reignite violence and make the prospect of reviving peace efforts ever more dim.