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June 2, 2021

Bipartisan House lawmakers urge US to replenish Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system

Bipartisan House lawmakers are doubling down on America's "ironclad" support for Israel in the aftermath of the deadly Gaza conflict and are urging support for more federal funds to replenish Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.

June 2, 2021

Israel finds possible link between Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, myocarditis

Israel’s Health Ministry has announced a possible association between Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and heart inflammation among men aged 16 to 30.

June 2, 2021

Isaac Herzog elected Israel's president, following in father's footsteps

Yitzhak Herzog, a veteran of the Labor party, has been elected as the 11th president of the State of Israel. Eighty-seven Knesset members have voted for Herzog, while 27 voted for his rival – Miriam Perez, an educator and a mother who lost her two sons in combat. This is the highest majority ever registered in Israel’s history. 

June 1, 2021

New York Times issues multiple corrections on Israeli-Palestinian coverage, ripped for 'shameful propaganda'

The New York Times issued multiple corrections to reports on Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Middle East over the past week.

June 1, 2021

Netanyahu slams Iran nuclear deal possibility, willing to risk 'friction' with US

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu said he is willing to risk "friction" with the U.S. to prevent Iran from going nuclear if it moves forward with reinstating the Iran nuclear deal.

June 1, 2021

Democratic radical left treats anti-Semitism with double standard compared to other hate crimes: activist

The recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks across the U.S. has been coupled with a new, dangerous phenomenon, says Dov Hikind, as American institutions’ condemnation of crimes against Jews have been walked back in the age of woke-ness and the radical left controls the Democratic agenda. 

June 1, 2021

GOP leaders tour Israeli home destroyed by Hamas rocket attack that claimed life of caretaker

Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., visited Ashkelon on Tuesday, touring the remains of an elderly woman's house that was bombed by Hamas in an attack that claimed the life of her caretaker.

June 1, 2021

Cruz, in Israel, accuses Biden of showing 'weakness' to Hamas

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz sharply criticized President Biden this week, saying he's shown "weakness" to Hamas and accusing him of having "emboldened" the terror group amid violence with Israel.

May 31, 2021

Dem congressman chides progressives for provoking anti-Semitism by calling Israel 'apartheid state'

During a Monday interview, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., was asked if he had conversed with any of his progressive fellow lawmakers regarding his previous tweet calling out his progressive colleagues’ “silence” on condemning anti-Semitic attacks as the nation sees a rise.

May 31, 2021

Cruz shares heartbreaking photos of home 'bombed by terrorists' in Israel

The Hamas attack claimed the life of the caretaker of the elderly woman who lived in the Ashkelon home, according to Cruz’s tweet, which the Texas senator called heartbreaking.