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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.

“In many cases, I come into this job knowing the ambassadors, knowing some of the senior diplomats,” Anne Dreazen told JNS.
The new regime is “promoting regional security and stability as well as an inclusive, Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political process,” a State Department spokesman said.
“By investing in TV series or documentaries that are being shot in the south, we are investing a lot of money, and bringing a lot of money into the circle of the community,” said Ofer Hefetz, JNF-USA business development director.
“We trust you will understand the importance and enormity of this matter,” the legislators wrote to the Israeli prime minister.
The world’s largest such fund drew Washington’s ire when it divested from Caterpillar this summer for its business dealings with the Israeli military.
“The parties have seized this historic opportunity to finally end decades of bloodshed and make the president’s vision of lasting peace in the Middle East a reality,” a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations said.
“This is just the latest in a long history of Iran’s global lethal targeting of diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them,” a U.S. official said.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren also criticized the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation while questioning a Pentagon nominee.
“Lebanon has an opportunity to be free, prosperous and secure,” per the U.S. Treasury Department, “but that can only happen if Hezbollah is fully disarmed and cut off from Iran’s funding and control.”
Eliana Birman, a sophomore at Barnard College, told JNS that “we know what it’s like to have to fight with both facts and emotion.”
“Israelis have a knack for turning challenges into opportunities,” according to the U.S.-Israel Business Alliance. “This resilience has also proven beneficial to New Yorkers.”
The food-security agency that made the famine determination relied on unweighted sampling of data, while weighted data failed to meet famine conditions.