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| September 29, 2016
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Massachusetts Gov. Baker plans overseas trade mission to Israel in December

 

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s trip to Israel in December, follows his predecessor, Gov. Patrick’s 2011 & 2014 visits to the Jewish State that helped found 200 Israeli-based businesses, that generated $9.3 billion in state revenue for 2015.

By Shira Schoenberg

 

Gov. Charlie Baker is planning his first international trade mission as governor, with a trip to Israel in December.

The mission, which will be held Dec. 9 to 14, will include a delegation of about 40 people from private business and a dozen from state government, including Baker. The focus will be on the cybersecurity and digital health industries. Continue Reading »

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| September 25, 2016
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Israeli Knesset Member: US Sec. Kerry has a lot learn from Mayor Giuliani

 

MK Moti Yogev thinks Secretary of State Kerry should stop ‘obsessing’ over “settlements” and a Palestinian state, and seek out to learn from people who’ve actually succeeded in fighting terror.

By Netanel Katz

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Israel’s policies during a closed meeting with representatives of countries who fund the Palestinian Authority, according to a report in Haaretz Sunday morning.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry. - Photo courtesy: Kobi Gideon, Israel's GPO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry. – Photo courtesy: Kobi Gideon, Israel’s GPO

Kerry said in the meeting that Israel and the Palestinians are moving towards a reality of one state and war, and that “we need to do something now or simply shut up.” Continue Reading »

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| September 21, 2016
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US embassy in Tel Aviv: Caught between a bottle of wine and a hard place

 

Although some US states have recently passed legislation against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, the US embassy had this to say after being made aware their holiday baskets had a Cabernet Sauvignon from the Zion Winery in Mishor Adumim: “We would not have included the wine had we known that it was from the settlements.”

By HERB KEINON

 

Following its expressed regret Monday for putting wine from over the Green Line into gift baskets it sent out for the holiday, the US Embassy was noncommittal Tuesday when asked whether it has a policy of not purchasing products from east Jerusalem, the West Bank or the Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

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| September 9, 2016
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Watch: US law enforcement officers in Israel for bike ride & ceremony

 

view videoThe US Police delegation of 52 sheriffs & officers were joined with 50 of their Israeli counterparts in a ceremony at Israel’s Police Academy, then enjoyed a 30 km bike ride.

By Yoni Kempinski,

 

Over a hundred policeman from the US and the Israel police rode bicycles together for 30km in the south yesterday.
The Police delegation of 52 sheriffs & officers is visiting Israel for a week and is being hosted by the Israel national police (INP).

US and Israel police at joint ceremony – Photo: Police spokesman

During the weeklong visit, the sheriffs and officers from the US visited the Israel police academy to see the police in training, with live exhibitions and self-defense training. Continue Reading »

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| September 1, 2016
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WATCH: Massive explosion rocked US Air Force Station prior to Israeli satellite launch

 

view videoTremendous explosion felt for miles around of an unmanned test rocket during a routine test destroyed the SpaceX launch site in Florida, which was supposed to carry an Israeli communications satellite over the weekend.

By The Associated Press

 

An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test. SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9am, according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is next to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. Continue Reading »

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| September 1, 2016
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VIDEO: Israel Air Force returns from USAF 2016 Red Flag aerial exercise

view videoA senior official from the Israeli team who participated in the ‘Red Flag’ exercise refused to comment on reports that the IAF had participated in the exercise with the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan Air Forces.

By Kobi Finkler

 

An Israeli air force team returned today (Thursday) from the renowned multi-annual “Red Flag” aerial training exercise that takes place at the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and sometimes sees the participation of aerial teams from foreign countries.

The Israeli team included F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, in addition to a refueling plane.

The exercise is big – to the degree that it strives to simulate a war-time situation. Continue Reading »

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| August 25, 2016
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Israeli humanitarian delegation heads to Louisiana to assist flood victims

IsraAid, the Israeli aid NGO is sending a delegation of aid professionals to assist families devastated by the worst natural disaster to hit the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy.

By Eitan Goldstein

 

IsraAid, the Israeli international aid organization, will be sending a delegation of aid workers to assist the people affected by the flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Flooding in Louisiana – Photo: AP

The eight person humanitarian delegation is slated to fly out to the areas affected by flooding by the weekend. They will help Louisiana residents return to their homes to collect personal effects, and help to begin the process of rehabilitating flooded out homes so that the Louisianans’ lives that have been affected by the flooding can go back to normal.
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| August 19, 2016
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Analysis: Is former PM/DM Barak’s allegation that Bibi endangered Israel correct?

 

Former Defense Minister Barak criticized PM Netanyahu for not having accepted the US station advanced weapons in Israel, something which may have presented a significant leap in Israeli technological & operational capabilities, as well as upgrading the security cooperation between the two countries.

By Alex Fishman

 

A year and a half ago, the professional leadership of the Israeli security apparatus, with the support of Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, gave a recommendation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the aid proposal that Israel would receive as a result of the nuclear deal with Iran.In addition to increasing the amount of aid for the next decade, the US proposal included other deals which would have had dramatic impacts on security cooperation between the two countries and on Israel’s strategic abilities. Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2016
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Lawsuit filed in US district court claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact

 

The lawsuit claims foreign aid to Israel violates two amendments of the 1961 Foreign Aid Act, which bans aid to clandestine nuclear powers.

By JTA

 

A lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Dimona nuclear reactor – Photo: REUTERS

Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News. Continue Reading »

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| August 10, 2016
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US threatens ‘harsh response’ if Israel demolishes illegal Arab structures

 

view videoIsraeli NGO condemns foreign criticism of court ordered demolition of illegally constructed Arab buildings, and calls on Defense Minister Liberman to ignore ‘idle threats’.

By Ido Ben Porat

 

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) is expected to submit the ministry’s formal response in the Supreme Court to an appeal by the left-wing NGO ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’, which is demanding demolition orders for an illegal Arab outpost be shelved.

Illegal Arab settlement – Photo: Regavim

A number of buildings in the illegal outpost, which was constructed near the Jewish community of Sussiya near Hevron, are slated for destruction.

On Wednesday it was reported that senior US officials have been exerting heavy pressure on the Israeli government not to enforce the demolition orders. Continue Reading »

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| July 30, 2016
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Israel outs US settlement construction criticism as bogus

 

Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemns the US’s claim that building homes for Jewish families undermines chances of peace as ‘factually baseless.’

By i24news

 

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Friday rejected US State Department criticism of Israel’s construction over the Green Line as “factually baseless.”

The Israeli settlement of is seen behind the Jewish state’s controversial separation barrier in a picture taken from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on August 24, 2009 – Photo: MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/FILE

The United States slammed as “provocative” Israeli plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes in east Jerusalem, saying they seriously undermined the prospect of peace with the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| July 30, 2016
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Analysis: Caroline Glick outlines why Israel now needs to pass on U.S. aid

 

The current US military aid package is really a deal for Lockheed Martin, not for Israel, and we need to say ‘no’ since it’s structured to dangerously diminish Israel’s strategic independence.

Column one: Time to walk away from US aid

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

On Monday, acting head of the National Security Council Yaakov Nagel will sit down with his US counterpart, Susan Rice, and try to conclude negotiations about a new, multi-year defense assistance package.

To prevent the F-35’s single engine from melting down, the weapons bays must be opened every 10 minutes, negating its stealth systems. – Photo: LOCKHEED MARTIN

We must all hope that he fails. Continue Reading »

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| July 15, 2016
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Trump’s GOP Becomes More Pro-Israel Than Ever

 

U.S. Republican Party updates its official policy platform, taking an unprecedented pro-Israel position including Jerusalem, as the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish State.

By Israel Today Staff

 

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the party’s platform is now more pro-Israel than it has ever been.

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Indeed, the Republican Party’s Platform Committee did make surprising policy changes that no previous candidate would or could have represented.

The new platform erases all reference to a “two-state solution” and utterly rejects “the false notion that Israel is an occupier.” It further states that Jerusalem is the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| June 27, 2016
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US Army looks at Israel’s short-range missile interceptor for European defense

 

The US Army has its eyes on purchasing the Tamir missile, used in the Israel’s Iron Dome Missile Defense System, to incorporate it into Europe’s air defenses against any possible future Russian expansion.

By Reuters

The United States has tested the short-range interceptor missile used by Israel’s Iron Dome system with a view to incorporating it or a future American counterpart in European-based air defense against Russia, a US Army general said on Monday.

Iron Dome in action – Photo: AP

Developed with funding help from Washington, Iron Dome has had a 90 percent shoot-down rate against Palestinian rockets, Israeli and US officials say. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2016
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Obama frustrated over necessity of Israel’s qualitative military edge

 

Frustrated over snags in Saudi arms deal, Obama showed his anger over a US law, requiring Defense Department’s guarantee that weapons sales to Mideast nations must comport with the US’s pledge of keeping Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

WASHINGTON — Frustrated over a stall in an arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Obama once questioned the necessity of maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.

US President Barack Obama speaks at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony, organized by Yad Vashem, at Israel’s Embassy in Washington January 27, 2016.

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