“IDB has such a unique culture of being personal, which is apparent both with our clients and also, internally, with our colleagues. We are large enough to give our clients whatever they need and small enough to offer them real personal service. IDB Bank is a full-service American bank with an Israeli soul,” says Uri Levin, the newly installed Chief Executive Officer of Israel Discount Bank New York (IDBNNY).
read moreMonday, Israel’s Knesset passed a law banning entry into the Jewish state of foreign nationals who support or publicly engage in boycotting Israel, including Jewish communities of Judea, Samaria, and/or eastern Jerusalem. American for Peace Now objects.
read moreAmerican supporters of Israel who also support the nomination of David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s candidate for US Ambassador to Israel, just received what they consider confirmation that they are correct. On Wednesday, February 15, five former US ambassadors to Israel, none of them considered great friends of the Jewish state, sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urging them to reject Mr. Friedman.
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There is no longer any time to wait. Those who support President Donald Trump’s choice for Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, must act now by contacting members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and asking them to support Mr. Friedman’s candidacy.
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There are a number of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Israel that undermine and delegitimize the Jewish state. Since this is an ongoing problem which reaches a feverish pitch every time the Jewish state responds to a missile or mortar attack against Israeli towns and cities, it is instructive to examine how Israel is investigated for some of its alleged human-rights violations.
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In 1977, Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Team won the European Cup. Israel won a tournament that literally put the Jewish state on the map.
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For those wracking their brains trying to find a constructive response to President Barack Obama’s December 23rd betrayal in the UN Security Council of Israel as well as the vast majority of pro-Israel Americans, journalist Ira Stoll has an idea: Encourage President-Elect Donald Trump and the incoming US Senate to pass a treaty, making it clear that neither America nor Israel recognize the validity of or will be bound in any way by UN Security Council Resolution 2334.
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The Orthodox Union Advocacy has written a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump, asking him to keep his campaign commitment to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in recognition of the Holy City as Israel’s chosen capital. The group has posted a petition for all supporters of that relocation to sign.
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For years, experts and would-be-experts on the problems in the Middle East have argued over the concept of “linkage,” the theory that if only the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs were solved, all other struggles in the Middle East would fade away. The truth is, “linkage” is a false myth.
read moreWe are now in the third stage of this post-election trauma: the weeping and the violence have given way to hysteria.
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In 2010, seven years after he was first elected prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an ardent supporter of the Palestinian Arabs, including the terrorist Hamas faction, engineered a crisis with Israel which was encouraged by the pro-Palestinian media throughout the Western world. Israel is still paying for it.
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The reason the press ignores the deaths in Aleppo, Syria, is that no one in the media cares who does the dying, only who does the killing.
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J Street’s controversial response to the sexual harassment of one of its staff members raises questions as to whether its attitude toward women’s rights is compromised by its political goals.
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