Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward After police clash with Tel Aviv protesters who blocked highway, Netanyahu likens demonstrations to settlers who rioted
Netanyahu warned that the protests would face retaliation, although he did not say what shape that backlash might take. The speech occurred as protesters surrounded Netanyahu’s wife in a Tel Aviv hair salon
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News Hard-liner Bezalel Smotrich was just put in charge of Israel’s settlements. Here’s what that means.
The new Israeli Finance Minister and his ideological foes are portraying his new job as the harbinger of a sea change in the West Bank
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Fast Forward Trump’s ambassador to Israel criticizes its government’s plans for judicial reform
'You compare this to the U.S., but it doesn’t work like that in our system,' Friedman told a key architect of the Netanyahu government’s planned judicial reforms
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Fast Forward Avi Maoz, Israeli politician and ‘proud homophobe,’ resigns from deputy minister role
Avi Maoz said Netanyahu broke a promise to transfer some Education Ministry responsibilities to him
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Fast Forward Israeli killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence
The attack came one day after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis traveling through the northern West Bank Palestinian town of Huwara. Settlers later rioted in Huwara, burning houses and cars. At least one Palestinian was killed amid the riots
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Fast Forward 3 dead after bloody day in West Bank, as settlers riot following Palestinian shooting attack
The attacks took place as Israeli and Palestinian officials met in Jordan to stem a recent escalation in violence, though what they agreed to later came under debate
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Fast Forward Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell visit Israel and meet with Netanyahu amid looming crises
The crisis surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judiciary reform was a subtext in remarks between Sen. Chuck Schumer and Israeli President Isaac Herzog
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Fast Forward Criticism of rabbi’s salary may have been erased from the internet due to fraud, investigation claims
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said in a statement that if Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein paid a company to eliminate criticism of his salary, 'it was a personal decision made completely independent of The Fellowship.'
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