UNITED NATIONS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Holding up a poster-board map of an area near Tehran before...
Trump Backs Two-State Solution for Israel and Palestine
UNITED NATIONS — For the first time since taking office, President Donald Trump endorsed a two-state solution as the best way to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, as he met Wednesday at the U.N. with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump told reporters that he believes that...
More Young American Jews Take Stand Against Israel's Tactics
For young adult American Jews, the Birthright program offers an enticing opportunity. It provides expense-paid educational tours of Israel, lasting a week or longer, to explore Jewish history and learn about contemporary issues in the Jewish state. The organization's website says Birthright Israel "seeks to ensure the future of the Jewish people...
Israeli PM's Wife Charged With Fraud Over Lavish Meals
JERUSALEM — The wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged Thursday with misusing some $100,000 in public funds to order lavish meals from celebrity chefs, dealing an embarrassing blow to the country's first family and drawing fresh attention to a series of separate corruption investigations plaguing the prime minister....
Water Diplomacy? Israel Offers Water Tech to Iranian People.
Benjamin Netanyahu wants the Iranian people to know that he supports them. Not the Iranian government, of course. In an English-language video posted earlier this week, the Israeli Prime Minister offered Iranians his country’s water technology. Think of his offer as a first step in water diplomacy. The two-minute video...
Blood on Trump's Hands Because of Jerusalem Embassy: Gideon Levy
Editor's Note: Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy wrote this essay exclusively for GV Wire. The American embassy has moved to Jerusalem. The old embassy in Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv has changed the sign on the building and now it is called “The American Embassy Branch Office.” Israelis and...
Gaza's Hamas Rulers Say Cease-Fire Reached With Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza's Hamas rulers said Wednesday they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the two sides since a 2014 war. Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, said Egyptian mediators intervened "after the resistance succeeded in warding off...
Trump’s Failure in Jerusalem: New York Times Editorial
From The New York Times Editorial Board, May 14, 2018: "The day the United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem is a day the world has longed for, because of what it was supposed to represent: the end of a seemingly endless conflict, a blood-soaked tragedy with justice and cruelty...
As Israel Turns 70, Many Young American Jews Turn Away
Natalie Portman, the Oscar-winning actress, recently kicked off a massive storm of controversy when she pulled out of a prestigious award ceremony in Israel because, she said, she “did not want to appear as endorsing Benjamin Netanyahu.” The response to Portman’s refusal to appear alongside Israel’s prime minister was intense....
Portman Getting It From Both Sides for Israel Snub
Natalie Portman may be one of the few people who can bring Jews of disparate opinions to agree on something: Her recent absence from an Israeli award ceremony was wrong. The Hollywood actress recently rejected attending a Genesis Prize ceremony in Israel. "I chose not to attend because I did...