Tax-exempt donations from the United States have helped Jews to strengthen West Bank settlements, preventing the creation of a Palestinian state, The New York Times reported.Read More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington for his fifth meeting with President Obama.Read More
Mahmoud Abbas offered the Western Wall and Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter to remain under Israel’s control as part of a peace settlement, an Arabic newspaper reported.Read More
Turkey’s foreign minister has threatened to cut ties with Israel unless it apologizes for its deadly interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, a Turkish newspaper reported.Read More
Moving from proximity talks to direct peace talks will be the main issue that U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to discuss in his upcoming meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. told Haaretz on Friday.Read More
Germany’s Parliament has passed a cross-party motion demanding that Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.Read More
J Street’s political action committee has raised $650,000 so far for this year’s elections and is backing a slate of 61 candidates, including 10 Jewish lawmakers.Read More
J Street’s political action committee has raised $650,000 so far for this year’s elections and is backing a slate of 61 candidates, including 10 Jewish lawmakers.Read More
President Obama signed enhanced Iran sanctions into law.Read More
Noam Shalit, father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, on Thursday responded to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the prisoner exchange to free his son by saying that Israel knows the price required to free Gilad - and also the price of abandoning him.Read More
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