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Police Officers clash with protesters during a protest over tension in Jerusalem, in Ramla, on May 10, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90

How old politics in Ramallah, Gaza, Jerusalem and Washington have set Israel ablaze

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After one of the calmest extended periods in decades in the Middle East—and in Israel, in particular—the tide has suddenly turned, reverting to classic political mistakes that have all but erased the positive gains. The...
Senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner boards El Al Flight 971 from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi together with the U.S.-Israeli delegation, at Ben-Gurion International Airport, Aug. 31, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Kushner launches ‘Abraham Accords Institute for Peace’ to deepen Arab-Jewish ties

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Jared Kushner is forming an organization to help strengthen ties between the countries that signed the Abraham Accords normalization agreement in the fall of 2020, the group announced on Wednesday. Kushner, the son-in-law of former U.S. President...
Former U.S. Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference of Israel Hayom newspaper at Davidson Center in Jerusalem Old City on June 27, 2019. Photo by Aharon Krohn/Flash90

Former Middle East envoy Greenblatt: Saudi Arabia on ‘path to peace’ with Israel

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Saudi Arabia is on a path to peace with Israel, but it needs to be given space to move at its own pace, former White House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told JNS in...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during a visit to the Jewish settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, on Feb. 20, 2020. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Former Ambassador Friedman sifts through ‘transformative’ accords and their future success

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman came to his position as an attorney without a background in politics or diplomacy. Not being allegiant to a particular point of view, he said, “gave us an...
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Credit: John Papadopoulos/Shutterstock.

Left-wing Jewish groups urge Biden not to enforce Trump’s ‘Made in Israel’ label policy

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Six left-wing Jewish organizations asked the Biden administration on Tuesday to revoke a policy by the former Trump administration to label goods from Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank, as...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman light Hanukkah candles at the Western Wall on December 22, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Ambassador David Friedman: ‘We left the Middle East in good shape’

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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...
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Publishers beware: Banning books isn’t good for freedom (or business)

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In an open letter posted last week to his website, young-adult novelist Barry Lyga called for like-minded colleagues in the industry to join him in blocking the publication of bodies of work written by anyone associated...
Supporters of the BDS movement against Israel. Photo by Alex Christy/Flickr.

Trump administration plans to release list of BDS groups

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The Trump administration plans to release a list of organizations that support the anti-Israel BDS movement, a senior Trump administration official told JNS. The groups are still in the works and being decided this month,...

Pompeo to JNS: ‘Trump administration will continue to be a force for good’

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Under the stewardship of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the administration in Washington has taken new approaches to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. The results have been profound, culminating in three...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a press conference in Jerusalem on Nov. 19, 2020. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu lauds Pompeo, Trump administration for ‘unprecedented heights’ of US-Israel alliance

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his “personal friendship and everything that went along with it.” Emerging from what he called a “very intimate and productive...