Tag: U.S.-Israel Relations
Israeli national security adviser hosts US Mideast envoy
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf met with Israel’s National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Leaf expressed condolences on behalf of the Biden administration for Tuesday’s Palestinian terrorist attack...
65 senators support adding Israel to US Visa Waiver Program
Allowing Israel to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program would “significantly increase the potential for both tourism and business travel,” according to a letter penned by 65 senators to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and...
Austin, Gallant talk Iran, Russia at meeting in Brussels
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met on June 15 in Brussels “to discuss opportunities to expand military cooperation to counter regional threats,” per a U.S. Defense Department...
Herzog to meet with Biden in Washington, Israeli official tells JNS
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will meet in Washington with U.S. President Joe Biden, despite the White House having declined to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit.
“President Herzog was invited by the bipartisan leadership...
Herzog says he plans to address Congress soon
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday said that he plans to visit the White House and address a joint session of the U.S. Congress “in the near future.”
He spoke during remarks via video to...
Israeli foreign minister: Harris couldn’t name one clause on judicial reform
Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday took issue with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris weighing in on Israel’s judicial reform debate, saying she didn't know a thing about it.
Harris waded into Israel’s domestic political affairs during an...
Blinken tells AIPAC ‘America is more secure when Israel is strong’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken addressed the 2023 American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Summit (AIPAC) at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., saying, “the depth and breadth” of the alliance between the U.S....
Kamala Harris to celebrate US-Israel ‘unshakeable bond’ at embassy event
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will celebrate the “unshakeable” U.S.-Israel bond and will “reaffirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security” in a June 6 talk, an unnamed White House official told Axios.
The vice...
US ambassador to Israel to leave post over summer
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides is set to depart his position this summer after two years in the post.
Nides told senior staff at the embassy on Tuesday morning about his planned departure, Axios reported, citing...
Group of 28 senators honors Israel’s 75th anniversary
Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jim Risch (R-Ida.), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) led a bipartisan group of 28 senators, who issued a May 2 resolution praising Israel on its 75th...