U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
“Israel is a very thriving country,” the U.S. president said. “They don’t need it.”
The New York City mayor said “New Yorkers stand with” dockworkers in 22 countries protesting arms shipments to conflict zones, though no New York ports joined the strikes.
Steve Adler, a Jewish Democrat, told JNS that James Talarico, Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, has views that “reflect the kind of more middle-road, more measured view,” though some Jews want him to be more pro-Israel.
The president said Witkoff was pursuing an agreement, while Tehran ruled out transferring its 60%-enriched uranium to a third country.
Arab lawmakers elected to the Knesset “have been outspoken in their condemnation of the very nation they want to be a part of,” the envoy said.
“Knowing that a technology we developed to help protect astronauts is now being recognized as part of the history of space exploration is incredibly rewarding,” stated Oren Milstein, CEO and co-founder of StemRad.
Jewish and Zionist advocate tells JNS that education, personal engagement and action are essential to countering antisemitism and anti-Israel narratives.
An NYPD spokesman told JNS that “the department explored different cell-site simulators and determined that this device best met the needs of the NYPD.”
“We, in American Jewry, don’t always look through the lens that our Israeli brothers and sisters are looking at the candidates or the issues through,” William Daroff told JNS. “They’re not voting on the issues that we tend to be most focused on.”
“They will push legislation very hard to end the Iran war, and it’s not inconceivable that they could get a fair amount of Republican support for that,” William Galston of Brookings told JNS.
Netanyahu says that, together with the U.S. president, Israel has a “historic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to eliminate the Iranian threat.
