Israel will withhold tax revenues from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas\’s administration until March at least in response to his statehood campaign at the United Nations, Israel\’s foreign minister said.
The United States reportedly warned European governments in a memorandum not to support a Palestinian bid for increased status at the United Nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the transfer of some $63 million to the Palestinian Authority to help ease its economic crisis.
U.S. authorities announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a money-laundering scheme by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
Jozeph Nassi, the vice president of Istanbul’s Jewish community, describes the dilemma facing Europe’s Jewish communities.
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to fund additions to Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.
The United States transferred $40 million in foreign assistance to the Palestinians.
Israel released $100 million in tax funds it had withheld from the Palestinian Authority.
A documentary about Chiune Sempo Sugihara — who saved thousands of Jews while he was vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania during World War II — screened at the Skirball Cultural Center on June 23 to raise funds for Japan’s earthquake victims.
President Obama issued waivers allowing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority and extending the the stay of the PLO office in Washington.
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