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Americans for peace now broke its promises

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  The decision by Americans for Peace Now to publicly endorse suspending U.S. military aid to Israel directly violates the promises it made in order to gain admittance to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish...
Azerbaijan ambassador-designate Mukhtar Mammadov meets in Jerusalem with Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, March 2023. Credit: Eli Bardenstein.

Azerbaijan’s new ambassador to Israel meets with senior US Jewish leader in Jerusalem

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Azerbaijan’s ambassador-designate to Israel Mukhtar Mammadov met last week in Jerusalem with Malcolm Hoenlein, the vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. At the meeting,...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at the ministry in Jerusalem, Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

FM Cohen calls on US to present a ‘credible military threat’ to Iran

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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday called on Washington to take steps to convince Tehran that the United States is not bluffing when it comes to the possibility of the use of force. “If...
William Daroff, CEO of Conference Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, presents U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides with a gift while Conference of Presidents chair Dianne Lob looks on. Photo by Alex Traiman.

Conference of Presidents mission aims to strengthen ties between Israel and American Jewry

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The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leadership mission has arrived in Israel to engage in an annual weeklong conversation with top Israeli leaders. Highlighting the sessions include the top echelons of...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations meeting in Jerusalem, Feb. 19, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Bringing Saudi Arabia into Abraham Accords would be ‘quantum leap’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday night said he was actively courting Saudi Arabia in an effort to persuade it to join in the Abraham Accords as that would constitute a “quantum leap”...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the National Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Feb. 19, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Netanyahu talks Iran, drive for regional peace in address to US leadership mission

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Iran, the Abraham Accords, and judicial reform in an address to U.S. Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Sunday. Netanyahu, in his address to the National Leadership Mission of the...
American and Iranian flags. Credit: Dmitriy Prayzel/Shtterstock.

Iran denies responsibility for Rushdie knifing, Blinken decries continued incitement of violence

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Iranian government officials denied that they were responsible for the brutal stabbing of internationally acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie on Monday, instead laying the blame on him. “Regarding the attack against Salman Rushdie in America, we don’t consider...
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (left) and Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2001. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US Jewish leaders commend killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri

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American Jewish leaders on Monday praised U.S. President Joe Biden for authorizing the drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri a day earlier. In a statement posted on social media, the Conference of Presidents of...
San Francisco City Hall illuminated in blue and white for Yom Ha'atzmaut in 2020. Credit: Israeli-American Council.

Conference of Presidents, AZM launch site for Israel’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ at 75

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As Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) approaches, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the American Zionist Movement have launched the “National Coordinating Council for Israel at 75” to prepare national...
Ambassadors participating in a dinner celebrating the Abraham Accords in Jerusalem, Feb. 21, 2022. (L-R) William Daroff, CEO COPMAJO; Dianne Lob, Chair COPMAJO; Morroco Ambassador to Israel Abderrahim Beyyoudh; U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides; Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chair COPMAJO, Bahrain Ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousif Ahmed Alialahma; and Ambassador of Kosovo Ambassador to Israel Ines Demiri. Credit: Avi Hayun/courtesy of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Government-to-government ties help propel the Abraham Accords

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The Abraham Accords are quickly proving themselves as meaningful, tangible agreements built on common national interests, defense arrangements and economic opportunities. After decades of diplomatic boycott, the accords represent rapid geostrategic normalization on multiple...