A study released last week by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute argued that increasing the deficit to 3.3% for 2013 could actually be beneficial for long-term growth, though the Bank of Israel has yet to agree. In his campaign, Lapid promised not to …
US President Barack Obama's three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories will begin on March 20, Israel said yesterday, in the first official announcement of the much-anticipated visit. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's …
For him Israel must be ruled in an Israeli manner, democratically, the country of all its citizens and, indeed, of all its proper citizens (there are those pesky excludees again). And — if so ruled — Israel has a “right to exist”. Yeah …
As the Israeli elections loomed in January, reporters and pundits, biased by their own ideas about Israel and Israelis, failed colossally. Reports and analyses in a wide range of publications and media outlets—from the New …
By Dennis Lamb —- Ali Gharib is a national security reporter for ThinkProgress.org covering U.S. foreign policy in the Middle.
DEBKAfile. Match 10, 2013. A new US-led contingency headquarters for joint US, IsraelU, Jordanian and Turkish operations will go into action inside Syria if any or all these allies should come under chemical or biological …
“We are ready to go a long way with Israel,” says Henri Etoundi Essomba, Cameroon's Ambassador to Israel, who points out that Africa's economic growth in the past few years has been second only to Asia's. “We expect the Israeli community to be more …
A Likud source explained that Netanyahu is unlikely to be an active foreign minister, and Bennett will be able to jump on the first opportunity to take on the trappings of the job, for example involvement in US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel …
US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit, which took on the air of a sporting event last month with Israel's selection of an “official” logo, began feeling like a game show on Sunday as the US Embassy initiated a contest to attend Obama's keynote …
President Barack Obama will visit Israel later this month, the 20th, even if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fails to put together a governing coalition beforehand. “We're going,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest …