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Originally from Casablanca, Morocco, Amelie made aliyah in 2014. She specializes in diplomatic affairs and geopolitical analysis and serves as a war correspondent for JNS. She has covered major international developments, including extensive reporting on the hostage crisis in Israel.

The U.S. president said the contacts were “in depth, detailed and constructive,” and could lead to a “complete and total resolution” of the conflict.
“There is a different reality on the ground and we cannot run away from it if we want to win,” Israel’s consul general to the Pacific Southwest tells JNS.
Josef Avi Yair Engel’s father survived the Nazi genocide, and his grandson recently spent 54 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza.
“It is insane that America is dictating terms for the national security of Israel,” Bryan Leib tells JNS.
“We can’t run away from reality, sadly, but we can focus on the good,” says Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan.
“Iraq is a strong U.S. ally and receives hundreds of millions of dollars every year from Washington. There should be more accountability,” says Emma Tsurkov, whose sister Elizabeth was abducted by Kata’ib Hezbollah in 2023.
“From the river to the sea, Israel will be free: this should be the slogan chanted at Columbia University, Harvard, Yale and Berkeley,” says Knesset member Amit Halevi.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest, Hungary, former U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the administration “has been anything but supportive of Israel.”
There are calls for increased military pressure on Iranian terror proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.