Live updates on Israel, regional security, U.S.–Israel relations, and developments affecting the Body of Christ in the Middle East.
EU UNESCO draft also disregards Jewish connection to Temple Mount
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2016
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem is fuming over a draft decision distributed on Thursday by representatives of the European Union at meetings of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Istanbul on the subject of the Israeli capital's Old City…
GOP moves to the right on Israel
Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A push to move the GOP to the right on Israel scored a preliminary victory Monday in Cleveland.
Israeli Pres. Rivlin: French plan seeks peace talks ‘for negotiations’ sake’
Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday told members of the European Parliament that international efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement — including the most recent French initiative — were “negotiations for negotiations’ sake,” and therefore doomed to…
Turkey, Israel to agree normalization deal June 26
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Turkey and Israel will this weekend announce a deal on normalizing ties, ending a six-year diplomatic crisis sparked by a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which 10 Turkish nationals died, a report said Tuesday.
House approves defense aid to Israel despite veto threat
Posted on Friday, June 17, 2016
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $576 billion defense spending bill which includes $635.7 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense programs, despite a threat by the Obama administration to veto the bill, The Jewish Insider…
