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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 U.N. agency for Palestinians is on “the verge of financial collapse,” says U.N. secretary general.
It’s “impossible” for Azerbaijan to stay on the sidelines of the Turkey-Israel relationship, says Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Washington Khazar Ibrahim.
That move is “going fantastically,” Dana Stroul, the Pentagon’s top Middle East policymaker, tells JNS.
The pro-Israel parade in New York on June 4 should be a time of unity, even as protests are welcome elsewhere, Simcha Rothman told JNS.
Eight American-based Israeli companies surpassed $1 billion valuations in the last year, but market headwinds are keeping the overall number artificially high.
“I would have stood up and denounced them immediately!” declared the mayor of New York City if he’d been on the commencement stage when the remarks were delivered.
The strategy includes 100 actions the administration will take “to raise awareness of antisemitism and its threat to American democracy, protect Jewish communities, reverse the normalization of antisemitism and build cross-community solidarity.”
The three-year-old RootOne program aims to bring those less connected with the Jewish state on themed trips to Israel.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s recent comments are a “gross affront to Holocaust victims and survivors.”
The “Celebrate Israel Parade” and additional activities are expected to draw tens of thousands of Israel supporters.
The former head of HonestReporting has practiced law, launched “Playboy” in Israel and exposed anti-Israel media bias.
“Palestinian ‘Nakba’ Day pushes an odious narrative that promotes more conflict, not peace,” according to B’nai B’rith International.