Photo by Francis Chung/POLITICO In an address delivered to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog emphasized his countryâs close relationship with the U.S., while also responding to recent criticism from some lawmakers. At least five progressive members boycotted Herzogâs speech, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Rashida Tlaib
Israeli ambassador to UN condemns Tlaib’s ‘antisemitic lies’ after calling Israel ‘apartheid state’
July 8, 2023 by
Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan condemned what he called “antisemitic lies” from Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., after the Michigan Democrat called Israel an “apartheid state” on social media. “Tlaibâs ignorance and hatred toward the Jewish people and the State of Israel know no bounds,” Erdan told Fox News Digital. Erdan’s […]
Exclusive: Joe Lieberman Slams Biden for Not Inviting Israeli PM to White House and for âStrengtheningâ Iran
July 6, 2023 by
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed the Biden administration for its having yet to invite the Israeli premier to the White House while accusing it of âstrengtheningâ the otherwise âweakâ Iranian regime. Lieberman demanded an immediate invitation for Netanyahu and called to make the Islamic Republic of Iran âmore afraidâ of the U.S. In an
Israeli Company’s Hacking Tools Rival Pegasus in Ability to Spy on Iphones
June 18, 2023 by
A recent investigation by cybersecurity researchers has exposed the misuse of hacking tools sold by little-known Israeli vendor QuaDream. The companyâs âReignâ hacking tool seems to be as powerful as the better known âPegasusâ hacking tool made by NSO Group. The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent investigation found that hacking tools sold by the
Mourning British Dad âDelightedâ by Israeli Vengeance Killing
May 5, 2023 by
Israel on Thursday announced that its soldiers had killed the Palestinian gunmen responsible for murdering two British-Israeli sisters and their mother last month.The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the âHamas terroristsâ who shot Lucy Dee and her two daughters, Maia and Rina, had been âneutralizedâ along with a âsenior operativeâ who helped them. âTogether, Israeli
Lucy Dee, Israeli Mom Killed by Terrorists, Saves 5 Lives by Donating Organs
April 11, 2023 by
Courtesy Prime Minister’s Office Lucy Dee, the 48-year-old mother of five who died Monday of wounds sustained in a Palestinian terror attack last week, donated her organs and was able to save the lives of five other people. Dee and her daughters were driving on a road in the Jordan Valley on a family trip
Israeli Banks Transferred $1 Billion Out of SVB Before Collapse
March 15, 2023 by
According to a report by the Times of Israel, the countryâs two largest banks were able to transfer $1 billion out of Silicon Valley Bank to accounts in Israel before it was seized by the feds. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the United States at the time of its failure late […]
Israeli troops fatally shoot Palestinian teacher, militant during raid in occupied West Bank
January 19, 2023 by
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian schoolteacher and a militant during a military raid in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, Palestinian officials said, the latest deaths as Israeli-Palestinian violence continues to surge. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the dead as Jawad Bawaqna, 57, and Adham Jabarin, 28. They were shot in the Jenin […]
‘Bibi Is Back!’: Exit Polls Show Netanyahu With Majority Bloc in Israeli Elections
November 1, 2022 by
Exit polls predicted Tuesday evening that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to form a majority bloc and return to power in a new coalition government, according to Israeli news sources. Netanyahuâs party, the Likud, looked set to be the largest party, with other parties on the right winning enough seats to join…
Pollak: The Democratic Party Is the Dividing Line in Israeli Politics
June 14, 2021 by
The reason Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel today has much to do with the Democratic Party, whose recent drift toward anti-Israel positions has become a major and imminent threat to the security of the Jewish state. Netanyahu had no major failures on his record. On the contrary, he had achieved…
FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Israeli Helicopter Shot Down By Hamas?
May 27, 2021 by
A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows an Israeli helicopter shot down by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Verdict: False The video appears to show a government helicopter that was shot down by rebels in Syria in 2020, not an Israeli helicopter shot down in 2021. Fact Check: The video clip shows a helicopter on…
Watch: Israeli Precision Bombing Pounds Gaza Terror Tunnels
May 19, 2021 by
The Israeli military unleashed another heavy wave of airstrikes late Monday into Tuesday morning across the Gaza Strip, demolishing a host of terrorist tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders. Sixty-two fighter jets dropped 110 âguided armamentsâ on 65 targets in the retaliatory strikes. The precision aerial bombing destroyed the five-story building housing the Hamas-run…
Israeli Election Too Close to Call, Though Netanyahu Wins Plurality
March 24, 2021 by
Israelâs fourth election in two years is too close to call, even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuâs Likud Party won far more votes than any of its rivals on Tuesday. Under Israelâs parliamentary system, a party or coalition of parties must win a combined total of 61 seats in the 120-member Knesset to form a…
Israeli Wins Eurovision Song Contest, Says âI Love My Countryâ
May 14, 2018 by
Israelâs unconventional Netta Barzilai, who won the Eurovision Song Contest with her hit âToy,â declared, âI love my country. Next time in Jerusalem!â The timing was perfect â it was Jerusalem Day, and Israelis were already celebrating the 51st anniversary of the reunification of the city. Israelâs unconventional Netta Barzilai won this yearâs Eurovision Song Contest […]
Israeli Defense Minister: ‘We Hit Nearly All The Iranian Infrastructure In Syria’
May 10, 2018 by
A day after President Trump announced that the United States was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iranian Al-Quds forces based in Syria reportedly launched rockets at Israeli forces in the Golan Heights. Israel responded with its most extensive military operation in years and what the IDF described as its largest strike against Iranian […]
Projectiles fired towards Israeli forward defensive line in the Golan.
May 9, 2018 by
IDF forces mobilize in the north of Israel following Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, May 9, 2018. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Iranian forces on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights fired around 20 projectiles towards Israeli army positions in the forward defensive line of the Golan Heights causing no […]
Iranians killed in alleged Israeli strike on military site in Syria.
April 30, 2018 by
A satellite image shows Syria’s T-4 military air base. (photo credit: GOOGLE MAPS) The target was reportedly an underground missile production facility and depot for surface-to-surface missiles. The Syrian army confirmed Sunday that several military bases in northern Syria were struck in an attack blamed on Israel by the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al Akhbar. According to […]
Latest Israeli Airstrike in Syria Likely Stopped New Iranian threat.
April 10, 2018 by
Amid fallout from chemical weapons attack, Israel enforces its own red lines in Syria, while sending a message to Iran and Hezbollah. The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments […]
Will Deep State Now Indict Obama for Interference in Egyptian, Israeli, Kenyan, German and British Elections?
February 18, 2018 by
The 13 Russian internet trolls have NOTHING on Barack Obama. On Friday the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced that a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals, along with 3 Russian entities for ID fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud from 2014 through the 2016 elections. The Russians launched pro-Trump […]
President Trump Taunts Past Presidents For Failing To Recognize Jerusalem As Israeli Capital.
December 12, 2017 by
Late Thursday night, President Trump tweeted a video taunting past presidents for failing to keep promises to officially recognize Israel’s preferred capital city, Jerusalem. The president’s montage shows former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama making campaign promises to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. I fulfilled my campaign promise – […]
Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital.
December 6, 2017 by
President Trump will announce the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but will sign a waiver delaying the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to there, senior administration officials said Trump will make the announcement on Wednesday, in a speech that will be closely watched by other world leaders who fear the […]
Former Israeli Envoy to Washington: Iran Should Dominate Trump-Netanyahu Meeting
February 15, 2017 by
The Algemeiner reports: Iran will be at the top of the agenda when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, two former Israeli ambassadors to the US told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. âThere are three Iran-related issues,â Michael Oren â currently the deputy minister for […]
Israeli Ambassador: UN Vote as Damaging to Security as Iran Nuclear Deal
December 30, 2016 by
President Obama sits with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, center, and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Israel’s ambassador to the United States said that the Obama administration taking no action to veto last […]
Israeli Minister: Israel Betrayed at UN By Countries Where We Helped Stop Terror
December 29, 2016 by
TEL AVIV â A member of the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday slammed the countries that supported the anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council, saying that Israel was betrayed by the very nations that asked it for assistance in fighting terror. âCountries to which Israel has been providing intelligence to aid them in preventing terrorist attacks on […]
Kerry Attacks Israeli Government, Defends UN Resolution
December 28, 2016 by
Lame-duck Secretary of State John Kerry blasted the Israeli government at the State Department on Wednesday, and attempted to defend the Obama administrationâs decision to let an anti-Israel resolution pass at the UN Security Council last week. Kerry delivered his remarks in the midst of a diplomatic fight with Israel, in which President Barack Obama stands […]
Angry Israeli PM Summons US Ambassador Over UN Vote
December 26, 2016 by
An angry Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro Sunday to talk about the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution opposing Jewish settlements. Neither the State Department nor Netanyahu’s office commented on Sunday’s meeting.The foreign ministry summoned ambassadors from the 14 nations that voted for the resolution Friday, but reports […]
Trump Demands Obama Veto UN Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements
December 22, 2016 by
President-elect Donald J. Trump demanded that President Barack Obama veto a UN Security Council resolution to be voted on Thursday that would declare Israeli settlements across the 1949 armistice line â i.e. in the West Bank â to be illegal. The Obama administration has hinted that it would not veto a resolution authored by the […]
Trump Wins Exit Polls Among Israeli Absentee Voting
November 3, 2016 by
According to the result of an exit poll taken among absentee voters in Israel, Donald Trump would better serve the interests of the Jewish nation rather than Hillary Clinton as president. Trump received 49% of the Israeli-American vote, while Clinton got 44%, according to the poll conducted by get-out-the-vote organization iVoteIsrael and KEEVOON Global Research. The poll found a […]
Former Israeli PM Shimon Peres Dies
September 28, 2016 by
Former Israeli head of state Shimon Peres died early Wednesday at a hospital in Tel Aviv surrounded by his family and loved ones. He was rushed to a hospital on September 13 after suffering from a major stroke. After two weeks of living on a respirator, the last member of Israelâs founding fathers finally succumbed […]
Israeli Leaders Celebrate July 4 at Home of US Ambassador
July 3, 2016 by
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a 4th of July celebration at US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiroâs home in Herzliya on Thursday. During the event, Shapiro thanked the Israeli government for âyears of friendshipâ and said he feels at home in the Jewish state. âPlease make yourselves at home here,â […]