Tag: Trump’s presidential trip
Trump’s goals for peace in the Middle East
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Former Israeli ambassador to Japan wants Japan to oversee peace in the Middle East
The Founding Father of Israel awakened to Zionism while in Japan
The Japanese and Jews...
Trump’s titanic foreign-policy shift
(The Washington Post) - This newspaper’s legendary former publisher, Philip Graham, famously described journalism as the business of writing the “first rough draft of history.” This week, as President Donald Trump gave a historic...
Ivanka, Jared, and the Jewish Sabbath
he media frenzy surrounding President Trump has included reports about his daughter and son-in-law’s observance of Jewish ritual, including resting on the Jewish Sabbath. On a few occasions, the media have noted puzzling exceptions...
Donald Trump at Yad Vashem leaves a bizarrely chipper note for posterity
This morning, President Donald Trump visited Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial museum on the edge of Jerusalem. Flanked by Israeli and American flags, the president spoke gravely of the “millions of innocent, wonderful,...
At Yad Vashem, Trump says Holocaust ‘the most savage crime against God’
US President Donald Trump paid his respects to the victims of the Holocaust at Israel’s Yad Vashem national memorial during a short visit on Tuesday.
Speaking at the site’s Hall of Remembrance, Trump said, “We...
Trump on visiting Israel’s western wall: ‘It will leave an impression on me forever’
Images of President Trump touching the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem will send a strong signal to the Palestinians and their Muslim allies who have used U.N. forums to contest Jewish...
Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to pray at Western Wall
With a black skullcap on his head, Donald Trump today prayed at the Western Wall in the Old City of East Jerusalem, becoming the first sitting US president to visit one of the most...