Middle East

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the country’s government is acting as it wishes in its settlement policy in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that any pressure from the U.S. administration does not change this. Addressing a Washington conference via videolink from Jerusalem, Netanyahu, when asked if the U.S. election

Nikki Golomb Almost a year ago, I was in Israel with strangers who quickly became friends, as Israel trips always go. We were sitting in our hotel room in Jerusalem, and somehow the topic came up of whether we, a group of North American Ashkenazi Jews, were White. It was a thought that was new

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it an extraordinarily thick skin, an incurable addiction to power, or the conviction of being the one and only leader of the State of Israel in our time – or perhaps all this and much else – that keeps Binyamin Netanyahu in power as the longest consecutively serving

Netanyahu says he will speak with Trump about ‘bad nuclear deal’ with Iran (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he is looking forward to speaking with President-elect Donald Trump about the “bad nuclear deal” with Iran. “Israel is committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. That has not

Prime Minsiter Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the 16th annual Saban forum at the Brookings Institute Sunday. The Prime Minister was asked during the forum what his plans to deal with the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons will be after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Netanyahu reiterated his longstanding position on the threat Iran poses to