U.S.-Israel Relations

Live in Jerusalem with Clay Travis

U.S. talk radio host Clay Travis broadcasts live from the JNS studios in Jerusalem.

U.S. talk radio host Clay Travis broadcasts live from the JNS studios in Jerusalem.

U.S. talk-radio giant Clay Travis, whose weekday show with co-host Buck Sexton, (“The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show”) reaches more than eight million monthly listeners on nearly 500 stations across the United States, along with digital platforms, is currently in Israel, broadcasting his show live from the JNS studios in Jerusalem.

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Policymakers aim to enhance US-Israel relations during Trump term

Anglo-Israeli public diplomacy professionals, activists and Israel-U.S. relations experts attend the Yesha Council's "Policy Opportunities for the Israel-US Relationship" conference at the Psagot Winery in Binyamin, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Yesha Council.

Anglo-Israeli public diplomacy professionals, activists and Israel-U.S. relations experts attend the Yesha Council’s “Policy Opportunities for the Israel-US Relationship” conference at the Psagot Winery in Binyamin, Dec. 4, 2024. Credit: Yesha Council.

(Dec. 9, 2024 / JNS) Anglo-Israeli public diplomacy professionals, activists and Israel-U.S. relations experts gathered at the Psagot Winery in Binyamin on Thursday for a half-day conference organized by the Yesha Council, representing the communities of Judea and Samaria, to discuss policy opportunities for the Israel-U.S. relationship in light of the incoming Trump administration.

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Latest US sanctions on Israelis an ‘insult to most basic elements of democracy’

U.S. President Joe Biden listens as Mark Anthony Thomas, the President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee and Baltimore Tech Hubs coalition, introduces him at an event at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on Oct. 23, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

U.S. President Joe Biden listens as Mark Anthony Thomas, the President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee and Baltimore Tech Hubs coalition, introduces him at an event at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on Oct. 23, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

(Nov. 21, 2024 / JNS) The Biden administration this week announced a new round of sanctions against three Israeli entities and three individuals, pursuant to the president’s Feb. 1, 2024 Executive Order 14115, which targets Israelis accused of undermining “the foreign policy objectives of the United States.”

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Judea and Samaria leaders hail Trump, eye sovereignty push

A view of Efrat’s Dagan (foreground) and Tamar (background) neighborhoods, near Bethlehem in Judea and Samaria, Nov. 10, 2020. Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

(Nov. 9, 2024 / JNS) Leaders and activists across the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were nearly unanimous in their response to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election: the defeat of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris by Republican contender Donald Trump.

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Blinken’s reversal of ‘Pompeo doctrine’ all about politics, experts say

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a phone call with U.S. officials, including the president, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy against Hamas on Oct. 11, 2023, in the Oval Office. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a phone call with U.S. officials, including the president, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy against Hamas on Oct. 11, 2023, in the Oval Office. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday appeared to reverse the Trump administration’s “Pompeo doctrine,” which stated that civilian Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were not necessarily illegal according to international law.

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Israeli Banks ‘Overreacting’ by Freezing Accounts Due to US Sanctions, Expert Says

Bank Leumi chairman Samer Haj-Yehia speaks at Jerusalem's International Convention Center, Feb. 21, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Bank Leumi chairman Samer Haj-Yehia speaks at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, Feb. 21, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli banks this week made the controversial decision to freeze the accounts of two Israelis sanctioned by the United States under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden. It is believed that the accounts of two other sanctioned Israelis will be frozen shortly. The EO states that the four are guilty of “Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

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Friedman: Biden Admin ’Embracing BDS’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.’U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.

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Great Neck, NY, Signs ‘Sister Pact’ with Israeli Towns

Great Neck, New York, Mayor Dr. Pedram Bral (left) and Binyamin Regional CounciI head Israel Ganz sign a friendship and cooperation agreement last week. Courtesy of the Heartland Initiative.

Great Neck, New York, Mayor Dr. Pedram Bral (left) and Binyamin Regional CounciI head Israel Ganz sign a friendship and cooperation agreement last week. Courtesy of the Heartland Initiative.

A declaration of friendship and cooperation was signed in Israel this week at a festive ceremony between the mayor of Great Neck, New York, Dr. Pedram Bral, and Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, north of Jerusalem.

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Judea and Samaria Leaders Weigh in on Biden’s Israel Visit

American flags being hung in Jerusalem ahead of U.S. President Biden's Israel visit, July 10, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

American flags being hung in Jerusalem ahead of U.S. President Biden’s Israel visit, July 10, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ahead of this week’s visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, the Israeli government has taken steps to pacify Washington by refraining from unilateral moves in Judea and Samaria.

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