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Foggy Bottom’s announcement about the NGO came at a sensitive time, with the U.N. Security Council debating operation terms for the peacekeeping force meant to keep Hezbollah in check.
The visit comes ahead of the Security Council vote on extending UNIFIL’s mandate.
Families visited Tel Maresha in Beit Guvrin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Israel’s Lachish region.
The peacekeeping mission along the Israeli-Lebanese border is up for renewal this month under trying circumstances.
“Let me be clear: There is no ‘right of return,’” the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations said. “You all know this.”
The London-based Sephardic genealogist Jacob Marrache is one of those working hard to uncover lost Jewish history in the country.
It would mark the first time members of the Israeli government have officially and publicly entered the Sunni Muslim kingdom.
Along with 52 nations, the United States signed a statement calling out Iran and Russia.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was given several chances to clarify whether the congresswoman’s remarks were antisemitic and if Netanyahu was invited to the White House.
At the CUFI Summit in Washington, the former governor and ambassador said that the president, the United Nations and congressional Democrats fail on Israel and American Jewish issues.
“Jewish members of Congress should know better,” the Jewish groups wrote to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
International Legal Forum blasts U.N. special rapporteur’s “unhinged anti-Israel bias and endorsement of terror.”
