U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
“It is astounding that this should be an issue at all,” said Sarah N. Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth.
Magen David Adom and Camp Ramah team up to offer teens an immersive internship program working as emergency responders.
The partnership and investment by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Ministry of Diaspora Affairs represent “an important recognition that the program is impactful on students and teachers in both Israel and the Diaspora,” said Andrea Arbel, director of the Partnership Unit at the Jewish Agency.
Knesset member Yinon Azoulay of the Shas Party said on July 4 that Reform Jews “are not Jewish” and then blamed non-Jews for an earthquake felt earlier that day in northern Israel.
Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudaineh said the Palestinians consider this a “declaration of war against the Palestinian people, their fighters, prisoners and martyrs.”
“Any assistance provided by the Palestine Liberation Organization to those convicted of politically motivated violence is an affront to Australian values, and undermines the prospect of meaningful peace between Israel and the Palestinians,” said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in a statement.
Stuart Force, the father of U.S. Army Capt. Taylor Force, who was murdered by a terrorist in Tel Aviv in 2016, will arrive in Israel for a Knesset vote over legislation that would offset salaries paid by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists from tax monies collected by Israel.
He will replace Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident who has served as the head of the Jewish Agency since 2009.
The bill mandates that the government deduct the amount that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists from the NIS 8.5 billion (nearly $2.4 billion) per year of taxes that Israel collects for it, which will be then invested into a fund to pay damages to victims of terror.
Passage of the bill will reduce the amount of money the Palestinian Authority receives each month from Israel by approximately NIS 150 million ($42 million) per month—about one-quarter of the P.A.’s monthly allocation—unless it can prove that terrorists and their families are no longer receiving monthly stipends.
The political divide between Israeli and American Jews has widened considerably, according to a poll published by the American Jewish Committee on Sunday.
“We managed to get Taylor Force passed without any type of waiver whatsoever, which was a difficult and noteworthy accomplishment,” said Sander Gerber, a New York-based hedge fund executive who was a strong proponent of the Taylor Force Act. “Any Israeli equivalent of the law should also be passed without a waiver.”
