U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
Mark Levine “was gonna get grilled,” a source who attends services at the Altneu Synagogue, told JNS. “Neither side wanted an uneasy dinner.”
The presumptive next representative of New York’s 12th Congressional District spoke with reporters after being detained by the Israeli military for harvesting olives without permission.
At a private parlor meeting in Jerusalem, the Israeli Finance Minister addressed a range of issues, including the economy and cost of living, haredi conscription and Israel’s policies in Judea and Samaria.
“I can work here,” Modi Ephraim, a former Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands and to Peru, told JNS. “We can do a lot here.”
A GOP consultant told JNS that “if the Democrats take the U.S. Senate, and that is far from certain, I would expect more criticism of Israel, especially if Netanyahu is still in charge.”
“When a former president of the United States tells a European arena that Israel was founded on theft, he hands a talking point to every campus mob, every synagogue vandal and every ideologue who has spent half a century teaching that the Jewish state is a colonial crime.”
“You’re the man I want by my side, Bibi,” the U.S. president told the Israeli premier.
“A strong Israel strengthens America and a strong America strengthens Israel,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told the American audience.
The U.S. secretary of state listed conflicts across the Middle East, which he maintained are instigated directly by Tehran or its proxies.
At the inaugural Judea Conference, the ambassador pointed to the region’s biblical roots and unveiled an ancient stone from Susya’s synagogue.
The report addresses “where are there opportunities in the region to return to that peace-through-prosperity mindset that we saw happening Oct. 4, 5 and 6, 2023,” Jennifer Sutton, executive director of the council, told JNS.
