Daily Archives: January 26, 2021
Israel’s new Labor Party leader pulls out of unity government
Newly elected Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli announced Monday that her party is pulling out of Israel’s unity government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Michaeli, who won the party primaries on Sunday with 77 percent of...
UN Secretary-General: World alliance needed to combat anti-Semitism
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that “coordinated global action” was needed to combat the increase of neo-Nazism and white supremacy the world has seen since the...
Ambassador David Friedman: ‘We left the Middle East in good shape’
One winter morning in 2017, a young man arrived at the Kesher Israel synagogue in the heart of Washington. He prayed fervently, as if his heart was filled with a special request. His tallit...
Senate confirms Janet Yellen as US Treasury secretary
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen on Monday as the 78th U.S. Treasury secretary and the first female to lead the 231-year-old U.S. Treasury Department.
The final tally was 84-15.
The 74-year-old,...
January 26, 1980: Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
Egypt and Israel normalized their relations on January 26, 1980, opening the borders of land, sea and air. One day after handing over the El-Arish line (Sinai) to the Government of Cairo.
The Israeli Embassy...
Biden nominee called US recognition of Golan Heights ‘blatant political move’
U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) called the U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights in March 2019 as “a blatant political move” to...