Israeli Foreign Policy
Major Israeli companies that have previously participated in the expo include digital health-care firm G Medical Innovations; air-to-water technology company Watergen; and skin-care manufacturer Christina Cosmeceuticals.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls 1978 State Department memo arguing that Israeli settlements were illegal “deeply flawed” and says America is “returning to a balanced Reagan-era approach.”
The Sephardic chief rabbi’s characterization of immigrants from the former Soviet Union as Communists, hostile to religion and haters of religion is “outrageous,” says Israel’s prime minister.
In Trikala, one of Greece’s oldest Jewish communities, a monument to Holocaust victims was vandalized, and the city’s synagogue exterior was defaced with slogans, including “Jewish snakes out.”
U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz, on his first visit to Israel since succeeding Jason Greenblatt, is expected to also meet with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.
This will be Avi Berkowitz’s first visit to Israel since stepping in for Jason Greenblatt, who resigned as U.S. President Donald Trump’s emissary to the region in November.
“Turkey sees that its old adversaries, Greece and Cyprus, and its new adversaries, Israel and Egypt, are forming a maritime axis that is blocking [it],” Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told JNS.
“This is a historic day because Israel is rapidly becoming an energy superpower—a country that exports energy,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Under the prospective agreement, Israel and Cyprus will export gas through Greece and Italy to rest of Europe • Netanyahu: “We have established an alliance in the Middle East of tremendous importance.”
The court deferred sentencing for the incident, when Arik Lederman hit the ambassador’s car, then opened the door and spat on him twice.
The two main obstacles to moving ahead with such relations seem to be public opinion and the Palestinian conflict.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he’ll seek his parliament’s support to send troops to Libya following a request from the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.
