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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“It is a shame that so much money is dedicated to activities against Israel instead of going to places that really need the investment.”
“We recall our clear opposition to any form of annexation and to the expansion of settlement policies,” said 14 mainly European countries, led by France.
The day before the Japanese shot him down, Lt. Morton Sher, of the Flying Tigers, wrote to his parents that “I find things too exciting here to leave right now.”
“To our American friends,” a former European Union commissioner wrote back to the State Department, “censorship isn’t where you think it is.”
“There can be no enrichment inside of Iran,” U.S. diplomat Morgan Ortagus said. “That remains our principle.”
The Trump administration told many career foreign service officers to leave their ambassadorial posts next month, adding to a long list of vacancies in the Middle East.
The U.S. president said that the new “golden fleet” will replace “old and tired and obsolete” vessels.
Shira Gvili told JNS that she is traveling the United States to remind officials that “for Am Yisrael, we need him to come home,” referring to the remains of her brother, Israel Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.
Trust is lacking from Jerusalem, however, with the Jewish state’s U.N. envoy telling the council that “responsibility rests with the Syrian authorities to stop” terror activity within its borders.
The U.S. “will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” said John Hurley, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
“That says more about the U.N. than it does about Israel,” the Israeli ambassador to the global body in New York told JNS.
Exodus Movement agreed to pay $3.1 million for servicing customers in Iran and for suggesting ways to obscure their location to avoid restrictions.