By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— The only alternative to the creation of a Palestinian state is a one-state solution in which all Palestinians will get the right to vote, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said Wednesday, hours after a senior White House official appeared to withdraw the US’s traditional support for a two-state…
By Valerie Locke, Breaking Israel News— President Donald Trump was prepared to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem the moment he took office, but reconsidered after taking into account how it would impact Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbors, a top Republican official revealed on Monday. Moving the embassy to Israel’s capital…
By Tazpit Press Service, Breaking Israel News— President Donald Trump has announced that US Middle East policy is no longer wedded to the two-state solution. Speaking at a joint press conference at the White House, at the conclusion of his meeting with PM Netanyahu, the American President said he doesn’t care whether a peace agreement…
Torah: Exodus 18:1 – 20:23, “Yitro” (Jethro … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1 – 7:6, 9:5 – 6 New Testament: Romans 11:11 – 26 Gospel: Matthew 8:5 – 20, “Ani arapeh” (I will heal him … )
By Israel Today— Did Israel Block Trump From Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem? US President Donald Trump has a lot of opposition to his promise to finally move the American embassy back to Jerusalem. No one expected Israel itself to be among that opposition. But that’s precisely what US Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the…
Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
By Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post— MK Yehudah Glick (Likud) plans to submit to the Knesset this week a private member’s bill to annex the settlements around Jerusalem. It follows on the heels of a similar bill to annex the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, which already has been submitted but not approved for government…
By Reuters— Netanyahu opposes a Palestinian state, a senior Israeli cabinet member said on Monday, but left it unclear whether the prime minister would say that publicly in talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington this week. Netanyahu has never explicitly abandoned his conditional support for a future Palestine, and his spokesman did not…
By Israel Today— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday departed for his fateful first meeting with Donald Trump since becoming the 45th president of the United States. But before Netanyahu left, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef blessed him and prayed for the meeting. “May the Holy One, Blessed be He, be with your words. You…
From our Anonymous Israel Intercessor ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, WILL BE COMING TO WASHINGTON THIS WEDNESDAY TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP. Many issues are on the agenda … including the Iran deal, the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Syria, the Palestinians, etc. Bibi will also be…