The chairman of the Republican Party in Israel, Marc Zell, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about President Donald Trump’s chances in turning over a “premature” victory for Joe Biden.
Facebook on Friday announced it had taken down a network of accounts linked to Iran for violating foreign intervention policy, including campaigns targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and supporting Israeli protests against him.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on self-proclaimed president-elect Joe Biden to “strengthen the Palestinian-American relationship,” and was cited by a senior source as seeking the reversal of the U.S. embassy move by the incoming administration.
Palestinians hailed the end of “the worst era” of President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday night, saying “an evil has distanced itself from us” and calling the incumbent “dangerous and destructive.”
After hours of silence, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin issued statements early Sunday morning congratulating Joe Biden on a presumed victory in the 2020 presidential elections.
The U.S. government no longer “controls what’s happening in the world,” the Iranian foreign minister said on Thursday, hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani predicted the next administration in Washington would “surrender” to the Islamic Republic and revert to the nuclear deal.
A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday adopted a resolution, backed by 139 member states, that referred to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount only by its Muslim name and ignored any connection to Judaism — despite it being the religion’s holiest site.
Israeli opposition MKs expressed their anger at President Donald Trump’s behavior on election day, calling him “disgusting” and a “danger” to the world. Knesset member Ofer Cassif from the Arab-majority Joint List party said: “Trump has long been proving that he
Liberal Jews who are “closet” supporters of President Donald Trump paid a high price for revealing their loyalties, a hawkish New York-basked Jewish newspaper reported on election day, saying they lost decades-old friendships and were told they would be mourned as if they were dead.
If Democrat Joe Biden wins the election, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will walk back promises to hold elections for the first time in 14 years, a former PA advisor said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin responded Tuesday to the fatal terrorist attack in Vienna a day earlier, with the Israeli leader calling for the world to defeat the “savage” Islamist terrorism.
A caravan of dozens of vehicles supporting U.S. President Donald Trump rolled down the Jerusalem hills in Israel on Tuesday evening, ending with a pro-Trump rally and marking the fifth Jewish “Trump train” worldwide within a week.
Jews held prayers for the re-election of “lover of Israel,” President Donald Trump, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the city of Hebron, attended by local political leaders.
The first volunteer for Israel’s new coronavirus vaccine has been released from hospital after receiving the initial dose in human trials, saying he feels “great” and hopes the “whole world” will soon benefit from the Israeli vaccine.
Prayers for the success of President Donald Trumps’ reelection will take place on Monday morning at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the holy city of Hebron, attended by local leaders.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain expressed their hope for a Trump victory in the upcoming election, calling on moderate American Muslims to cast their votes for him, and warning that a Biden win could stop further peace deals in the region, an Israeli daily reported.
Videos of a motorcade featuring dozens of motorbikes supporting U.S. President Donald Trump in Jerusalem’s Old City went viral over the weekend, marking the fourth Jewish “Trump train” within a week. Clips of the Hell’s Angels on Twitter received more
Two days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the U.S.-Israel alliance has “never been stronger” and expressed hope America’s current Middle East policy would continue.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan shatter existing myths from the left that peace can only be achieved through “painful and dangerous” concessions on Israel’s part.
Jewish groups in the UK on Thursday lauded the “damning verdict” surrounding Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party after a government watchdog found it had broken equality law.
The Trump administration plans to announce that passports of U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem may now also mention Israel as the country of birth.
Israel and the U.S. on Wednesday signed an agreement on Wednesday extending scientific cooperation to apply to Israeli institutions in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, in a move that is being seen by some as a precursor to U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.
The Israeli and U.S. envoys to the United Nations this week called on the Security Council to refrain from “shrinking” away from the recent U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel and three Arab nations, and urged the global body to promote peace in the region by embracing the accords
In the wake of a pro-Trump rally held by Orthodox Jews in New York City on Sunday, a new poll was released suggesting that more than two-thirds of American Jews believe the Republican Party holds anti-Semitic views, compared to 37% who say the same about Democrats.
The Israeli military on Sunday morning launched the largest exercise of the year simulating war against the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, including all directorates and command centers of the army.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday praised President Donald Trump for securing three peace deals in six weeks between Arab countries and Israel, and expressed his hope that under the next U.S. administration more agreements would follow.
A Biden presidency could harm normalization accords between Israel and Arab states if it chooses to reverse the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz said in an interview published Thursday.
Wildly popular Arab-Israeli blogger Nuseir Yassin, more commonly known as Nas Daily, has released an uncharacteristically long video lambasting Qatari news channel Al Jazeera for accusing him of being an Israeli agent working for Israel’s “official propaganda program.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prove the Arab world is not beholden to the Palestinians anymore, and the latter no longer hold a veto over peace.
An Israeli police officer who killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City after mistaking him for a terrorist in a fatal shooting that rocked the country in late May will be charged with second-degree murder, the Police Internal Investigations Department announced on Wednesday.
The Israeli military said it exposed another “terror tunnel” from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Tuesday evening, in an announcement quickly followed by rocket fire from the Hamas-ruling coastal enclave.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday welcomed a senior delegation of Emirati officials to Israel for their first official state visit since the signing of the U.S.-brokered normalization deal last month, calling the visit “historic.”
The United Arab Emirates and Israel on Tuesday signed a visa waiver agreement, making the Gulf country the first Arab state that Israelis can travel to without a visa.
The United Arab Emirates’ top diplomat on Tuesday asked his Israeli counterpart to move quickly to set up embassies in Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. His plea came as a delegation of Emirati officials visited Israel for their first official state visit since signing a U.S.-brokered normalization deal last month.
The New York Times on Saturday published an op-ed piece glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failed to mention the Nation of Islam’s anti-Semitism, prompting former staffer Bari Weiss to condemn the newspaper for presenting him as a “gentleman” and for ignoring “Jew hate.”
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat was in critical condition Monday and put on a ventilator at a Jerusalem hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
Landing in Bahrain late Sunday to formalize the newly signed, U.S-brokered normalization deal with Israel, the head of an Israeli delegation said in Arabic that Israel “extends its hands for genuine peace with the Bahraini people.”
Seventy-nine percent of Saudis are in favor of a normalization deal with Israel within the next five years, a stunning poll found, and more than 70 percent of respondents from four Arab nations going as far as to say Arab states will normalize ties without a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
Taxis in Israel’s most liberal city, Tel Aviv, were emblazoned with the slogan “Thank you, Trump” Thursday, as part of a campaign by the Republicans in Israel group to motivate dual U.S.-Israeli citizens to vote for the U.S. president’s reelection next month.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday urged Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel, and added Washington supports a “robust program of arms sales” to Riyadh.
