(Illustration) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer against a backdrop of posters of missing hostages. (photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN, REUTERS/JOSHUA ROBERTS) Hostage deal negotiations were ...

Ron Dermer. With Dermer, says a source involved in the negotiations, there’s a “significant difference in momentum,” from when Israel’s team was led by intelligence chiefs David Barnea and ...

But in February, Israel made an important change that those now involved say has had a profound slowing effect on the discussions to resurrect the broken ceasefire: The file was taken over by the ...

Responding Friday to reports that talks have lost steam under Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer — a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the Hostages and Missing Families Forum ...