Michael Oren, Israel’s departing ambassador to the United States, said that President Obama is “a true friend” of Israel and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “committed to peace.” In a wide-ranging interview Thursday with Haaretz,...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney told donors attending his campaign's Utah retreat that he is briefed on the Middle East by Israeli government officials. About 50 of the 700 donors who attended the retreat this weekend in Park City were Jewish, according to...
By Larry Levin, Publisher/CEO
• Published April 25, 2012
There's no better time to get a feel for various media outlets' perspectives on Israel than just after a major broadcast piece has been aired. The most recent notable example is Bob Simon's report on Sunday's “60 Minutes” installment on CBS. Simon...
By Wayne L. Firestone, JTA
• Published February 1, 2012
WASHINGTON—Just as college students were finishing their winter exams, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg selected a partnership of The Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University to build a campus on Roosevelt Island that will become...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published December 7, 2011
A few different sparks led to last week's flare-up over a two-month-old Israeli ad campaign to lure home expatriates in the United States. An ad suggesting that a child of Israelis living in America would mistake Chanukah for Christmas. The claim by an...
Not a moment too soon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the plug on one of most pathetically inept marketing campaigns since New Coke or the Edsel. The ads, according to JTA's Uriel Heilman, were produced by Israel's Ministry of Immigrant...
