TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday slammed a Jewish group doing the “unthinkable” and rethinking its support of the Jewish state following Sunday’s controversial decision regarding pluralistic praying at the Western Wall.
TEL AVIV – Relatives of American-Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks warned President Donald Trump’s advisors Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt on Friday that peace between Israel and the Palestinians was impossible until the Palestinian Authority ends both of its policies of paying salaries to terrorists and their families and inciting and educating violence against Israelis.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is committed to reaching a serious peace deal, Palestinian media quoted Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saying following a late night meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday.
Speaking to Breitbart News during a trip here in Israel, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee hailed President Trump’s historic trip to Israel and urged the president to fulfil his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite pressure against such a move.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump will not push for a settlement construction freeze as a prerequisite for peace talks, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Radio talk show host Mark Levin slammed President Donald Trump for playing “footsie” with “known terrorist” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, saying, “This is turning into Obama 2.0.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s inauguration rabbi criticized the president and his administration for its reticence to clarify its position on Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, but added that he was confident the president would erase all doubts once he arrives in Israel next week.
TEL AVIV -President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, arrived in the country to take up his position at the behest of President Reuven Rivlin, who told the new envoy that it is time for the entire world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
TEL AVIV — The White House on Monday said that comments from a U.S. official claiming that the Western Wall is part of the West Bank were “unauthorized” and do not represent President Donald Trump’s stance.
TEL AVIV – Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem would help peace efforts by “shattering the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) has called on President Donald Trump to right an “historic injustice” and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Needless to say, my picture with Steve Bannon — with the whiteboard of campaign promises and priorities in the background — seems to be the tweet heard around the world.
WASHINGTON, DC — Last week my wife and I met with our friend, Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s chief Middle East negotiator, at the White House. Jason’s a busy man, and I’m grateful for both his friendship and his time. I
I’ve been to many public and political events in my life but Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony of David Friedman as the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel was one of the most electrifying.
The U.S. Senate confirmed David Friedman, a confidante of President Donald Trump who outraged some Jewish groups with his broadsides against liberal Jews, as ambassador to Israel.
The Algemeiner reports: The Senate Foreign Relations committee on Thursday voted 12-9 to approve President Donald Trump’s nomination of attorney David Friedman as the next US ambassador to Israel.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of Thursday’s vote on the confirmation of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel, the president of the World Jewish Congress said the criticism leveled against President Donald Trump’s envoy pick was “beyond outrageous and really quite wrong.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders asked David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, whether he would back using funds earmarked for assistance to Israel to help rebuild the Gaza Strip.
WASHINGTON — In a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, indicated that although a two-state solution calling for the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel is the “most ideal”
Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro wrote that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem can be undertaken even before Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace deal, reversing his position on the matter since the Obama administration left the White House.
AMMAN- Jordan’s government spokesman warned on Thursday of “catastrophic” repercussions if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on a campaign promise to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Thursday on CNN, former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sounded off on David Friedman, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Israel’s ambassador to the United States issued an impassioned endorsement on Tuesday of President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to relocate the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, a move that would mark a break with longstanding U.S. foreign policy.
Opposition from Jeremy Ben-Ami and J Street is the highest endorsement that David Friedman can receive as ambassador to Israel.
TEL AVIV — President-elect Donald Trump “remains firmly committed” to moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his transition team said.
The radical left-wing group J Street is trying to raise money off President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nomination of David Friedman to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The complaint: Friedman once referred to J Street supporters as “far worse than kapos – Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps.” J Street is urgently soliciting donations “to fight [Friedman’s] nomination.”
Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Among the complaints Thomas Friedman had about the pick was David Friedman support of moving the U.S.
TEL AVIV — President-elect Donald Trump announced in a statement on Thursday that will nominate attorney and advisor David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump told a Republican rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday that he loves Judaism and will work to make “America and Israel safe again.”
TEL AVIV – A senior adviser to Donald Trump who is rumored to be the Republican candidate’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel arrived in Jerusalem this week to meet with officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, the PMO said.
TEL AVIV – As the Obama administration and Israel continue to negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding to govern military aid to the Jewish state, Donald Trump adviser David Friedman told an Israeli news channel on Wednesday that Israel would receive
