Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l) and President Joe Biden (Flash90/AP/Carolyn Kaster) The lack of a call from the president to Israel’s leader has been a source of growing concern. President Joe Biden “looks forward” to a call with Israel’s prime … Read More
Then-Vice President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, March 2016. Photo: US Embassy Tel Aviv/Wikimedia Commons. i24 News – Newly installed US President Joe Biden has still to call Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 11 days into … Read More
Unlike his predecessors, the US president has not called Middle East leaders in his first days, likely indicating what his administration will focus on: Neighbors and NATO. US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on … Read More
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps troops on Monday seized the South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi A South Korean delegation left for Iran on Thursday to negotiate the early release of an oil tanker and its crew seized in strategic Gulf waters … Read More
Netanyahu says Iran’s decision to enrich uranium to a greater purity ‘cannot be explained in any way, other than a desire to continue realising its goal’ of getting a bomb. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Israeli leaders have vowed not … Read More
Israeli senior citizens receive Covid-19 vaccine shots at an assisted living facility in Ganei Tikva, Dec. 22, 2020. (Flash90) Surging coronavirus infections force the country into its third lockdown this year, to last at least 25 days. Israel’s government on … Read More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey May 18, 2018 — (photo credit: REUTERS/MURAD SEZER) After … Read More
President Trump will be handing Joseph R. Biden Jr. a difficult cleanup act in America’s relations with many countries. But it may not take much for Mr. Biden to improve the mood. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inheriting a … Read More
Report says ex-PM Olmert played a top-secret recording of Fakhrizadeh for President Bush in decisive 2008 meeting that boosted US-Israel cooperation against Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. (Agencies) Israel intelligence managed to recruit an Iranian official close … Read More
The issue dates back to 1924, when the Supreme Muslim Council accepted Hussein bin Ali (Sharif of Mecca) as custodian of Al-Aqsa Mosque. WORSHIPERS ATTEND a prayer service at al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on July 31. (photo credit: … Read More