An Israeli delegation led by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security ... US Secretary Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday amid growing tensions over Israel’s plans ...

(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 ...

Ron Dermer. They say the move has slowed down the discussions to resurrect the broken ceasefire. CNN’s Oren Liebermann, Kareem Khadder, Ibrahim Dahman, Eugenia Yosef and Tim Lister contributed ...

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 ...