Tag: Diplomacy
Cardin honors diplomats who helped Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks at an event on Tuesday honoring the work and lives of 60 diplomats who helped Jews...
Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is about Michigan
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East for yet another round of meetings. The point of it is, as with his previous trips since Hamas launched a war against Israel on...
Historic statesman, who advised presidents, Henry Kissinger dead at 100
Alan Dershowitz first met Henry Kissinger in the mid-1960s. “We were both professors at Harvard, and his son and my son were elementary school classmates,” Dershowitz, an attorney, commentator and Harvard Law School professor...
Israel recalls South Africa envoy over ‘genocide’ comment
Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa for consultations after the country's ruling African National Congress (ANC) accused the Jewish state of "genocide" in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that...
US Jewish groups packed their schedules during UN General Assembly
The U.N. General Assembly is best known for its annual, high-level General Debate, during which world leaders do not debate but instead take the podium individually to broadcast largely promotional messages to the globe.
Much...
Israel completes purchase of DC home for its ambassador
Israel has completed the purchase of an official residence for its ambassador in Washington.
Michael Herzog will be moving into an 11-bedroom, 12-bathroom home with a listing price of $10 million, Jewish Insider reported on Thursday. It is...
Fiji to open its first embassy in Israel
The South Pacific island country of Fiji announced on Monday that its first embassy in Israel will open next year.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen welcomed the announcement, calling Fiji a "true friend" of Israel.
"I congratulate the...
Herzog receives credentials of six new envoys to Israel
Israeli President Isaac Herzog received on Monday the credentials of the new ambassadors from Moldova, Ghana, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Mongolia and, for the first time ever, Palau, in a series of ceremonies at his...
‘Light onto the nations’: Hebrew University and affiliates strive for knowledge, achievement and peace
American Friends of the Hebrew University held its annual SCOPUS Award Gala on April 28, where two politically involved couples from opposite parties were given the prestigious award in a show of bipartisanship and...
Madeleine Albright’s role in Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy reverberates to this day
“Close the gates! Close the gates!” It sounds like lines ripped out of a movie, but it was Madeleine Albright running in her heels in the United States ambassador’s residence in Paris. Albright, the...