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U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on June 24, 2019, targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Credit: Screenshot.

Trump signs bill to help boost synagogues, other nonprofits against potential attacks

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill on Friday that allocates $375 million over five years to synagogues and other houses of worship, as well as additional other nonprofits, to help protect themselves against terror attacks. The...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. Official White House on Jan. 23, 2020. Photo by Myles Cullen.

Why Trump is releasing his peace plan now

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From early in the Trump administration, a Mideast peace team led by senior advisrr to the President Jared Kushner, Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman set...

Senior Gantz adviser called U.S. president ‘Donald Adolf Trump’

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A senior adviser to Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, currently accompanying Gantz on a visit to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, has likened Trump in the past to Nazi...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2013. Photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons.

Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust. Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, on Jan. 23, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu, Gantz land in Washington ahead of visit to White House

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz landed separately in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening, ahead of their meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Trump is expected...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, on Jan. 23, 2020. Photo by Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.

As Trump gets set to roll out his Mideast peace plan, Israelis debate timing...

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In an unprecedented political move, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political challenger Benny Gantz are traveling to Washington to meet separately with U.S. President Donald Trump just prior to the...
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Senior PLO official calls US peace plan the ‘fraud of the century’

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Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat on Saturday strongly criticized the U.S. administration’s Middle East peace plan, dubbed the “deal of the century,” which is set to be revealed on Tuesday. Any deal or initiative that...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel officially allows citizens to visit Saudi Arabia

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In another sign of warming relations between Israel and some of the Gulf states, Israel’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that Israelis will now be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious or...
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the death of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3, 2010. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump: US will not lift Iran sanctions for negotiations

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that any negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would have to be conducted with U.S. sanctions in place. In an apparent response to comments made by Iran’s...
Ida and Avraham Ehrenreich. Sent on transport #31 from Drancy to Auschwitz on Sept. 11, 1942. Credit: Courtesy.

Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents

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As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...