Hundreds of Jewish activists, led by Bend the Arc Jewish Action, a Jewish social justice organization, gathered in vigils in cities across the nation as part of a national day of action against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
Hillary Clinton remains the favorite U.S. presidential candidate in the eyes of the Israeli public, a poll conducted by Israel’s largest news website, Walla News, showed.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $576 billion defense spending bill, including $635.7 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense programs, defying the Obama administration’s concerns and threat to veto the bill.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee strongly defended Donald Trump’s controversial Muslim ban, comparing his plan to Israel’s tough immigration and border policies during an interview with Israel’s public radio on Thursday.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of treating Muslim nations far better than he treats Israel, repeating a claim he made in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub attack.
The White House’s objection to increase funding for Israel’s missile defense system is not the result of a crisis in the U.S.-Israel relationship, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Wednesday.
Former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday defended controversial comments made by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, which was interpreted as implying that President Obama is sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.
The White House announced its opposition to a congressional proposal to increase funding by $445 million for Israel’s missile defense program in the 2017 budget.
President Barack Obama took the first major step to unify the Democratic Party on Thursday, meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in the Oval Office and issuing a video endorsement of Hillary Clinton right afterwards.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
