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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.

The top Israeli and U.S. diplomats talked about Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran in Washington, said the U.S. State Department.
The U.S. mission to the United Nations confirmed a Security Council vote will take place on Thursday morning.
An alert determining famine in Gaza used “made-up data” to reach a “predetermined conclusion in order to support Hamas propaganda,” the Jewish state said.
Jean-Martin Bauer, director of food security and nutrition analysis service at the U.N. World Food Programme, told JNS that “no liberties were taken with any data here.”
After a meeting in Beirut, Tom Barrack said gathered reporters must “act tolerant, because this is the problem with what’s happening in the region.”
It is essential to confirm nominees for the U.S. antisemitism special envoy and the envoy for religious freedom, 15 Jewish groups wrote.
After a Democratic National Committee panel rejected the anti-Israel resolution, the DNC chair withdrew his own measure, which had passed and was more in line with the Democratic Party platform.
Israel and Lebanon losing trust completely “in this very sensitive transition period would be risky and would not really serve anybody’s interest,” a senior U.N. official told JNS.