WASHINGTON—There will be the speeches, and they will resound like an echo. And then there will be the talk. When President Barack Obama speaks on March 4 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

JERUSALEM -- Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee that he did not advise Israel against striking Iran's nuclear facilities. Dempsey appeared Tuesday before the Senate Budget Committee, where he said...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials will not warn the United States if they decide to attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed U.S. intelligence official.  The decision was passed on in a series of private,...

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is traveling to Washington to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, and other key U.S. security officials. Barak, who left Israel on Monday, is arriving just days before Israeli Prime Minister...

JERUSALEM -- A state-run Israeli company will has inked a $1.6 billion deal to sell sophisticated military technology to Azerbaijan. Under the deal, Israel Aerospace Industries will sell drones, anti-aircraft and missile defense systems to Azerbaijan,...

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government will have to extend the Tal Law, which allows yeshiva students to delay their military service, until new legislation can be drafted, the country's Interior Minister said. Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai said...

WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich will address the AIPAC policy conference. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, who is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nod, is the first in the GOP field to announce his participation. No date...

JERUSALEM -- The United States and Israel clearly have daylight in their assessment of the threat posed by Iran, U.S. Sen. John McCain said in Jerusalem."There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the threat. Unfortunately,...

JERUSALEM -- The Knesset rejected two bills that would have required all Israeli citizens, including the haredi Orthodox, to serve in the military or national service. Both the National Service bill and the Defense Service bill, proposed by the opposition...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will address the annual AIPAC policy conference. Obama will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on March 4, his spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday. The address comes a day before Obama's meeting...

JERUSALEM -- A delegation of Jewish leaders met with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman. The delegation, participants in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations' annual meeting in Jerusalem, had a "remarkably candid and open exchange"...

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be a "huge and highly complex operation" that would be far different than its 1981 attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, according to a New York Times report. Citing U.S. defense officials...