Yisrael Katz

TEL AVIV –  Senator Lindsey Graham, while on a visit to Israel, said he plans to unveil an alternative to the 2015 nuclear deal that would prevent Iran from enriching uranium. 

Israel’s interests are are best advanced by working with like-minded countries. And in issues that matter, along a wide spectrum of areas, Poland is a like-minded country, despite painful historical differences.

Acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz should apologize to Poland for his remarks, US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher said on Wednesday, commenting on the diplomatic row between two countries.

TEL AVIV – Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz traveled to Oman overnight Sunday to present a plan to his Omani counterpart that includes a rail link between Israel and the Gulf.

JERUSALEM – Israelis climbed aboard the country’s new high-speed train on Tuesday as it partially opened to whisk passengers from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion airport, a massive project years in the making.

Israel’s Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz on Monday expressed his support for anti-government Iranian protestors, but said that Israel had a policy of not interfering in Tehran’s affairs.

A Saudi academic expressed support for US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and called on Arabs to recognize the city as holy to Jews, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said Tuesday that convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti should have been given the death penalty instead of life imprisonment for orchestrating murders during the second intifada.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East held a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, his second meeting with the Israeli leader since arriving in the country this week.

TEL AVIV – The newly formed “Golan Liberation Brigade,” an Iran-backed Shiite militia, heightens the threat posed by the Islamic Republic on Israel’s northern border, Minister of Intelligence and member of the Security Cabinet Israel Katz told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.

TEL AVIV – A member of the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday slammed the countries that supported the anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council, saying that Israel was betrayed by the very nations that asked it for assistance in fighting terror.

Contents: Turkey and Israel close to restoring diplomatic relations; Turkey drops demand for lifting the blockade of Gaza; Proposal for offshore seaport raises controversy; Russia improves military ties with Israel, will not veto relationship with Turkey

A senior Israeli official justified the “profiling” of Muslims as potential security threats on Monday after U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said Americans should adopt Israel’s disputed practice.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz on Sunday night announced that he is working to advance plans to create an artificial island off the coast of Gaza that could improve the Palestinian enclave’s economic and humanitarian situation.

The Independent reports:  Belgium must improve its security instead of just “eating chocolate and enjoying life,” an Israeli minister has reportedly said. Yisrael Katz, currently serving as both minister for transport and intelligence, made the comments in an interview with