President Obama is scheduled to deliver an address directly to the Israeli people during his two-day visit to Israel. The Obama administration has requested that Obama deliver his speech directly to at least 1,000 Israelis, Ynet reported Tuesday. The address will either be at the Israel Museum or the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. Ynet…
Is Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel going to turn into a Yair Lapid love-in? The Israeli daily Yedioth Araronoth, suggested in its editorial yesterday that Obama decided to come because Netanyahu is currently weak — because of the staggering success of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. The administration is working on the premise that…
President Obama’s visit to Israel will focus on Syria and Iran, and he will not initiate new peace moves, the White House said. “This is a trip the president looks forward to making that is timed in part because we have here obviously a second term for the president, a new administration and a new…
Is President Obama’s plan to visit Israel a sign that he’s ready to take another shot at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking? The White House announced Tuesday that Obama would visit Israel in the spring, his first trip there as president. He did visit in 2008, when he was a candidate for the Oval Office. This trip also…
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial and museum attracted a record number of visitors in 2012. There were 1.43 million visitors to the grounds of the former Nazi camp last year – the most in the museum’s 65-year history, the museum said on its website. More than 1 million people have visited the memorial and museum…
Standing in long, colorful robes and wearing traditional rounded hats, a group of men stood in reverent silence as one of their leaders placed a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum. The group was a delegation of 19 Muslim leaders from France, in Israel to learn more about the Jews and their…
It felt more like a wedding than a political rally. For his speech, Mitt Romney chose the spot that brides and grooms would die for, a large outdoor patio with panoramic viewpoint with a grand view of the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City walls. And at sunset. An hour before Romney mounted the platform, which…
Finished with his prayers, at the Western Wall, Mitt Romney is now gearing up for his charm offensive. This evening he will give a policy address in Jerusalem, in which he looks set to send out a message that he’s on the same page as Israelis. The speech will apparently be entitled Our Enduring Alliance,…
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