Politics
New Ad: Iran Endorses Hagel
The Weekly Standard - The Emergency Committee for Israel has a new ad focusing on the Senate testimony from Barack Obama's defense secretary...
Netanyahu Invites Naftali Bennett to Coalition Talks
Times of Israel - Five years after he quit as Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, and well over two weeks since the elections, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett was finally invited Thursday to...
Hagel in 2007: We Need to “Reverse Optics” in Relationship With Israel
Breitbart - Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is not providing the Senate any more information about past speeches or funders. Luckily, a few of his former audiences are only too proud to share his remarks...
Netanyahu to Ask Lapid to Join Coalition With Haredim
Israeli coalition talks continue apace, with the main focus now on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to square the circle between a centrist party whose main platform is integrating Israel's ultra-Orthodox sector into the...
Senate Committee Delays Vote on Hagel
The Weekly Standard - Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed...
Sexual Harassment Investigation May Delay Hagel Vote
Washington Free Beacon - Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel faces another obstacle in his ...
Different Coalition Possibilities Considered as 19th Israeli Knesset Inaugurated
Israel's new 120-member Knesset was sworn in Tuesday two weeks after the country's parliamentary election. "The...
Israel’s Yachimovich: Labor Will Stay in Oppositon
YNet - Following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, Labor Chairwoman Shelly...
New MK’s Surrounded by Family at Knesset Swearing In Ceremony
Times of Israel - At 27, Stav Shaffir might be the new Knesset's youngest member,...
New Ad: Iran Endorses Hagel
The Weekly Standard - The Emergency Committee for Israel has a new ad focusing on the Senate testimony from Barack Obama's defense secretary nominee,...
Netanyahu Invites Naftali Bennett to Coalition Talks
Times of Israel - Five years after he quit as Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, and well over two weeks since the elections, ...
Hagel in 2007: We Need to “Reverse Optics” in Relationship With Israel
Breitbart - Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is not providing the Senate any more information about past speeches or funders. Luckily, a few of his...
Netanyahu to Ask Lapid to Join Coalition With Haredim
Israeli coalition talks continue apace, with the main focus now on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to square the circle between a centrist party...
Senate Committee Delays Vote on Hagel
The Weekly Standard - Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, tells Politico reporter Manu Raju that the committee...
Sexual Harassment Investigation May Delay Hagel Vote
Washington Free Beacon - Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel faces another obstacle in his already contentious fight for confirmation as the Obama administration's ...
Different Coalition Possibilities Considered as 19th Israeli Knesset Inaugurated
Israel's new 120-member Knesset was sworn in Tuesday two weeks after the country's parliamentary election. "The public's eyes are on you, members of Knesset, in the...
Israel’s Yachimovich: Labor Will Stay in Oppositon
YNet - Following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich announced that her party was determined to sit in...
New MK’s Surrounded by Family at Knesset Swearing In Ceremony
Times of Israel - At 27, Stav Shaffir might be the new Knesset's youngest member, but she knows how to act like a veteran politician. During...
What the Massachusetts Senate Race Means for Israel
The race is heating up to fill the now-empty seat U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who was confirmed as Secretary of State, once held. But what...
John McCain Will Not Support Hagel Filibuster
Politico - Sen. John McCain appears to have cleared the way Monday for Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense. The Arizona Republican,...
Likud Willing to ‘Overpay’ Livni to Join Coalition
Jerusalem Post - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is prepared to make a substantial offer to bring The Tzipi Livni Party into his coalition as...
Anti Israel Activist: Hagel Lied to the Senate Armed Forces Committee, and He Knows It
In his poorly-received hearing with the Senate Armed Forces Committee Thursday, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel walked back on his previous statement about the...
Chuck Hagel: Mediocre Boilerplate
For all the thunder about the "missing" J Street speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2009, watching it was almost a letdown. There is simply no "smoking-gun"...
