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“Once again, the crime reductions across the five boroughs are a direct result of our precision policing strategy: focusing on illegal guns, putting officers where they’re needed most and taking down violent gangs,” stated Jessica Tisch, NYPD commissioner, about overall crime in the city.
“This job should never have been posted in the first place,” the American Jewish Committee told JNS.
“The balloons floated symbolically above the U.N. building—a stark reminder of the institution’s failure to formally condemn Hamas’s atrocities on Oct. 7 and its barbaric treatment of hostages,” Jonathan Harounoff stated.
Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman, and colleagues, said a new urgent care facility in Lower Manhattan will give patients “much-needed continuity of care.”
“For far too long, U.S. victims of state-sponsored terrorism, including the families of those lost on Sept. 11, have struggled to receive the compensation they rightfully deserve,” stated Rep. Mike Lawler.
An event at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan focused on “voices of change” in the Arab world.
The Israeli opposition leader told JNS that he already discussed his plan, to assign eight-year guardianship of Gaza to Egypt in exchange for foreign debt relief, with U.S. officials.
“Lebanon could actually normalize and come into the Abraham peace accords, as could even potentially Syria,” Steve Witkoff told attendees at an AJC event.
“Not for 24 hours, but for years,” civil rights attorney Leo Terrell warned.
“This region is the heart of our shared Judeo-Christian heritage and recognition of the right of Israel to declare sovereignty over this region would build upon your previous recognition of the importance of this heritage,” the letter reads.
The president imagines the war-torn coastal enclave as a tourist paradise, including a luxury hotel named “Trump Gaza.”
Reut Ben-Chaim, a mother of eight and co-founder of Tzav 9, a group opposed to the entry of aid into Gaza, was slapped with U.S. sanctions targeting “extremist” individuals “undermining peace in the region.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy had planned to return to the region this week for talks on extending the Israel-Hamas truce deal.
