U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Yaalon, will meet this week.
A Pentagon official told JTA that the two defense chiefs would meet in Washington on Friday, but did not provide further details.
Israel and the United States are closely cooperating in tracking Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and formulating strategy over how to prevent it.
Hagel and Yaalon met last month in Israel in their first meeting since taking their posts.
It is not a change in their belief that Iran must be stopped from acquiring a nuclear weapon. It is a change in their belief about Israel’s ability to achieve that goal. That belief is the genuine shift.
While it may feel noble to push for gun reforms and other so-called peaceful measures to strengthen our society, there will inevitably be moments where this society cannot keep us safe.
We, the entire country, were awakened by air raid sirens and a few minutes later by an ear-splitting continuous shriek on our phones. EXTREME ALERT!
His one-man show, “Marcus is Alive,” now playing at The Hobgoblin Playhouse is part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
IDF’s “Preemptive and precise” strikes killed high Iranian officials and scientists, Iranian state media reports.
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