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Amichai Stein

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan at the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York, Jan. 16, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Israel’s UN envoy to JNS: Palestinian issue won’t be resolved anytime soon

There's an understanding the Palestinians are an obstacle to peace, Gilad Erdan says.

September 20, 2023

MK Simcha Rothman during the hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on the "reasonableness law," Sept. 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Rothman: High Court ‘does not respect the judgment of the public’

My aim is to convince the judges that the Knesset should make the laws, MK Simcha Rothman said.

September 14, 2023

NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoană meets with then-Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in Washington, May 10, 2022. Photo by Ron Przysucha/State Department via Wikimedia Commons.

NATO steps up its posture on the threat from Iran to Europe and the Mideast

The Western alliance's No. 2. Mircea Geoană, speaks with JNS about the partnership with Israel and the Ukraine war.

September 11, 2023

View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field's gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea on Jan. 31, 2019. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90

Netanyahu’s visit to Cyprus raises natural-gas issue

“We discussed several options for cooperation in the field of natural gas. Our two countries were lucky and we discovered gas reserves,” Netanyahu said after his meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.

September 5, 2023

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at the ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

For the moment, the Israel-Libya diplomatic channel is dead

Jalel Harchaoui of the Royal United Services Institute said, “Now the issue of normalization will be radioactive at least for the next few years.”

August 29, 2023

Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud meets with Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (left), then chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 22, 2019. Credit: Israeli Knesset.

The Democratic Party and Riyadh’s normalization demands

A Saudi civilian nuclear program is particularly unpopular.

August 20, 2023

Then-President Barack Obama delivers a health-care address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9, 2009. Photo by Lawrence Jackson/White House.

Democratic lawmakers say ties with Israel will survive

“I don't think that the issue of judicial reform will undermine the relationship,” said Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio).

August 9, 2023

The funeral of Simcha Damri, one of three Israelis who was killed in a March 19, 2016, suicide bombing in Istanbul, March 21, 2016. Credit: Flash90.

Israelis and the international terror threat

"Most Israelis need to smell the danger and feel it in order to understand that they are in danger."

August 3, 2023