By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Behind the scenes, Israel intelligence experts are worried about the consequences of the leaks coming from the US National Security Council and other American intelligence agencies. Israel shares a great deal of covert information with the United States some of which goes through intelligence sources to the National Security […]
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International, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed his meeting with President Donald Trump this week as “historic”, declaring the beginning of a “new age” in US-Israel relations. The Prime Minister spoke with Fox News” Sean Hannity on Thursday, a day after his first meeting with the president since the inauguration less than a month ago. In the
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Middle East, USAAvraham Burg, a former Jewish Agency chairman and Knesset Member who once served as Speaker of the Knesset, met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday. According to the official PA news agency Wafa, Abbas updated Burg on the difficult situation of the Palestinian Arabs and said that “2017 will mark the
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Middle EastA dormitory built in the West Bank settlement of Beit El with funds donated by David Friedman has an outstanding demolition order against it By Times of Israel staff A lawyer looks over a map of Beit El prior to a High Court hearing in 2012 (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90) David Friedman, US President Donald Trump’s pick
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Middle East, USANetanyahu says Arab states also threatened by Iranian nuclear ambitions but they ‘whisper things in the dark’ By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, February 16, 2017 (Screen capture: Fox News) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he is speaking up on behalf of the whole
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAGallup poll: 71% of Americans view Israel favorably (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Although an increasing number of Americans oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, a new Gallup poll shows the U.S. public is divided over that issue. Currently, 45 percent of Americans say they support the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised President Trump for backing off from support of the creation of a Palestinian Arab state, affirming in his joint press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is not seeking to impose any solution, including establishing a Palestinian state,
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Middle East, USAFor decades the Israeli-Palestinian peace process progressed, or not, along a steel rail of policy agreed by all parties; that a two-state solution was the answer and ultimate destination. On Wednesday that all changed. “So, I’m looking at two-state and one-state and I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, faced hecklers and tough questions Thursday in his Senate confirmation hearing. Friedman, an attorney who worked for Trump and who has expressed hard-line, pro-Israel positions, sought to distance himself from his more inflammatory comments. “I cannot justify these hurtful words, which I deeply
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Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The optics, certainly, were fine. It was good to see an American president and an Israeli prime minister standing together on the podium with what appeared to be genuine good will. Most important, and promising for the future, perhaps, was how they dealt with the “two state solution” mantra. There
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USATentatively backing Trump, foreign minister says government wants Palestinian statehood but will support new idea if both sides come up with something else By Stuart Winer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO) Australia’s foreign minister expressed
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International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke with President Trump at the White House press conference on February 15 he spoke about the inadmissibility of forcing Israel to live alongside a terrorist state of Palestine as the result of a global effort to establish a Palestinian state. Ignored by
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TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Seventy-two members of the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday. A total of 102 members of the Bnei Menashe were brought on Aliyah this week by Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that aims to strengthen ties between the Jewish people and descendants of Jews
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Tuesday, United Hatzalah of Israel received a letter from a 10-year-old boy thanking them for saving the lives of people in Israel. The organization, which serves as Israel’s fully volunteer community-based EMS organization, also received a donation of 50 NIS from the young boy. According to an attached letter from
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