Tag: Trump Administration
Netanyahu, Gantz to visit White House amid reports of Trump revealing Mideast peace plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White Party and opposition leader Benny Gantz are scheduled to visit the White House next week for a development on the highly anticipated Mideast peace plan,...
Why Trump’s Middle East peace plan isn’t irrelevant
Three years in the making and long after most of the world had given up on it being rolled out, President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan may soon see the light of day....
Trump’s anti-Semitism order is a Rorschach test for Jews
Demographers have spent a great deal of time in recent decades trying to learn more about the changing demographics of American Jewry. But whatever else he has accomplished, President Donald Trump has, albeit unwittingly,...
Trump to sign executive order addressing anti-Semitism in US education, particularly on campus
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday addressing anti-Semitism amid the rise in hatred towards Jews in education in the United States, announced the White House in a...
Report: Trump weighs sending 14,000 more troops to Mideast amid Iran threat
The Trump administration is considering deploying as many as 14,000 additional troops, along with dozens more ships and other military capabilities, to the Middle East in the face of continuing threats from Tehran.
The Wall...
Netanyahu: US settlement policy shift ‘fixes a historic wrong’
During a visit to the town of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the U.S. administration’s policy reversal on Judea and Samaria as a “huge achievement” that “fixed...
US announcement on Jewish settlements does not ‘close door’ on peace, says legal expert
Experts weighed in on the U.S. State Department’s announcement on Monday that the United States is softening its stance on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.
It is a reversal of the 1978 State Department legal opinion,...
In major policy shift, US no longer views Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the United States is softening its stance on Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.
This is a reversal of the 1978 State Department legal opinion...
US administration prompts Israel to form committee to monitor Chinese investments
Israel decided on Wednesday to form a committee to monitor Chinese investments amid pressure from the Trump administration.
The United States has repeatedly expressed concerns with Israel over Chinese investments in the Jewish state.
Earlier this week in...
Friedman: Trump plan will not evict Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
The U.S. administration will not call for the evacuation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria under the much-anticipated Mideast peace plan, according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday.
In an interview...