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The Irish government wants the International Court of Justice, specifically to “broaden” its definition of genocide so it can include Israel.
Paraguay became the sixth country to open an embassy in Israel's capital.
The Israeli government encourages countries to establish embassies in the Israeli capital.
The legation will be the sixth in Israel's capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Embassy staff and the building are unharmed,” said Tal Naim, the embassy spokesperson.
Argentine Senator pledges support for moving embassy to Jerusalem, echoing new President's commitment.
The plan was approved by lawmakers of the four political parties seeking for form a Dutch governing coalition.
This move is contrary to EU policy, which refuses to recognize the Holy City as Israel’s capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters reportedly chanted, “We want to go to the borders and kill and kidnap Zionist soldiers." All embassy staff and diplomats are safe, according to Israel's Foreign Ministry.
The announcement comes as hundreds of pilgrims from Fiji are in Israel to take part in the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebrations organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
“I was very moved when I heard your (the Papua New Guinea) anthem,” Netanyahu said addressing the delegation from that nation. “I heard the words ‘prayer’ and ‘hope’.
The decision was made back in February of this year, after a phone call between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Papua New Guinean counterpart, Justin Tkatchenko.
The legation is set to be the seventh in the Israeli capital.
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is to attend the official reopening ceremony in Jerusalem, scheduled to take place by the end of the year.
An official announcement is expected after the president-elect is sworn in next week.
Israel and Fiji have maintained ties since 1970.
Russia unexpectedly recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in April 2017, but maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv.
The deal would safeguard Russia's claims of ownership of prime real estate in Jerusalem.
“The relationship with Turkmenistan is of great security and political importance, and this visit will strengthen the position of the State of Israel in the region,” said the foreign minister.
Hungary has been talking for a while about the idea of moving their embassy to Jerusalem.
The two countries have had diplomatic relations since 1978 but never established embassies.
Chadian President Mahamat Déby announced during a visit to Jerusalem that the African nation would open an embassy in Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Diplomatic staff and family members were evacuated after a gunman killed the embassy’s head of security and wounded two others.
In the video you can see one of the guards attacking and struggling with the gunman.
Lapid said, "The decision to open an embassy reflects the depth of the relationship between our countries."
“After hard work we are proud, happy and excited,” Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek said Tuesday.
By Israel Hayom
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised both countries for acting to open official entities in Jerusalem, saying Israel appreciates “them helping us on the international stage, as true friends do.”
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Mbasogo announced they are moving their embassy to Jerusalem.
Tehran has set its sights on the UAE due to its rapprochement with Israel and efforts to hinder Iran’s nuclear program, says The New York Times.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Eitan Na’eh, the Head of Mission to the UAE is Israel’s former envoy to Turkey.
The move is intended to express support for the Palestinian Authority, which demands that Hamas recognize the PA's full sovereignty over the Gaza Strip.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawns on September 15, the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arab country in 25 years.
By Avi Abelow
On November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration appeared on the world stage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Honduras will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by the end of 2020, President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced, joining the US and Guatemala in Israel’s capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The planned move was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but will get underway with the expected arrival of an Israeli ambassador in the coming days, says Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Georgia’s honorary consulate in Israel’s capital was inaugurated on Wednesday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The embassy “symbolizes the policy of Israel’s return to Africa"
Covering the latest news stories that matter for Israel.
Ambassador David Friedman told President Trump he could open the embassy for $150,000 in 3 months, instead of a billion dollars and in ten years.
Orly brings on John Villanueva who gives us an on the ground prospective of the Washington D.C. Intelligence Community.
President Trump recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
In response to the Arab threats to riot....
They made the announcement before Trump made his final decision.
Ari is embarrassed to tell you whose fault it was that the American embassy was not moved to Jerusalem.
U.S. President Trump's upcoming visit to Israel and the Jordanian terrorist.
Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party does not enjoy support from the PA's population, and they would be quickly replaced by the Islamists and other terror groups if given the chance.
Netanyahu made the statement ahead of US President Trump's planned trip to Israel on May 22.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
Doubt is being cast on Pres. Trump’s intention to follow through on his promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. He would be wise to act on his pledge and move the embassy, for four reasons.
By Bennett Ruda
During his presidential campaign, Trump made a point of talking about moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And now he is the President. Again, it is not so simple.
By David Bedein
The question remains as to whether the US will ever recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel. Such a policy decision is more crucial than the symbolic matter of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.
Claims that Trump administration caved to Arab pressure over the embassy move constitute fake news.
Public glee over Trump Administration's statements that the U.S. Embassy will be moved to Jerusalem.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Assuming Trump will not be intimidated and indeed move the embassy to Yerushalayim, will the presence of the U.S. embassy in Yerushalayim ensure the city's future as Jewish and Israeli?
By JNi.Media
The imam of the Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque in Ramallah warned that moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would 'engulf the region in the flames.'
Soon-to-be ex-secretary of state John Kerry and old State Department hand Martin Indyk predict Palestinian mayhem if the embassy is indeed moved, as if such would be a reasonable response to the move.
By Jeff Dunetz
“Moderate peace partners” of the Palestinian Authority are threatening Trump they will react with violence if the US Embassy is moved to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. Will their threats stop Trump?
‘Is moving the US embassy to Jeruselam worth it?’ Is it the right thing to do? What will be the actual repercussions of this move? Is moving the embassy to Jerusalem worth the ‘price’ of doing that?
By JNi.Media
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday condemned attempts by the incoming Republican president to move the American embassy, saying it would send the Middle East peace process and the entire world into a “crisis.”
By dvora
But moving the embassy alone will not guarantee the future of Jerusalem; there are imminent threats facing Jerusalem demographically, security-wise, and in other ways.
By JNi.Media
Another way for Australia to demonstrate its unswerving support for Israel, as the Middle East’s only liberal, pluralist democracy, might be to ... move its embassy to Jerusalem.
By Jeff Dunetz
Jewish liberals are very upset at the prospect of a pro-Israel Trump administration because they fear losing their standing in the generally anti-Israel Democratic Party or Jews may vote GOP in future
Can Trump actually alter longstanding US policy by recognizing at least the partial sovereignty of Israel over Jerusalem, a change the foreign policy establishment has told us would be cataclysmic?
By JNi.Media
Huckabee was one of the guests invited to a sit down with President Elect Donald Trump on Friday, after which a transition official said he would be "America's top diplomat in the Jewish state."
But it seems the president-elect is someone who would honor his word on this as both a matter of personal principle and a blow for equity and justice.
"I am confident that you will continue to empower our city by reaffirming its sovereignty and moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem."
By JNi.Media
Clinton, Bush and Obama all pledged on their campaign trails to move the embassy to the "eternal city."
By JNi.Media
Israel is also planning to close its embassy in Minsk, to be followed by the closing down of the Belarus mission to Tel Aviv.
There is concern that terrorists may try to attack the foreign embassies.
Those who use either chemical, or even conventional weapons to slaughter innocent people must be held accountable.
By JTA
The American embassy in Tel Aviv issued its first derivative visas to same-sex Israeli couples. The derivative visa allows the applicant to receive a visa through a spouse or first-degree relative who is eligible for residence in the United States. The embassy on Thursday issued the visas to the same-sex spouses of two Israelis relocating […]
By JTA
Denmark and Finland have jumped on the bandwagon of pro-Palestinian Authority countries to update their Palestinian diplomatic missions to embassy status. The countries made a joint announcement Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting of Nordic foreign ministers in Stockholm. “We hope that the intention to give, for all practical purposes, the Palestinian Missions in […]
Ambassador Rice touted the notion of a spontaneous mob action for several days after the event despite the evidence to the contrary. On what basis did Ms. Rice promote the false storyline?
Netanyahu condemns the terror attack in letter to Obama
In another time and place, a place called America, an attack on an American diplomatic mission would have been considered an act of war.
City officials in Englewood are hampering the development of a synagogue, but were nowhere to be found in opposing Kaddafi and the Libyan Embassy in Englewood.
A security guard, was attacked by an ax wielding mentally unstable Jew from Bat Yam in front of the U.S. embassy on HaYarkon Street in Tel Aviv. Police is on its way. Embassy guards returned fire at the attacker in response, hitting him and later arresting him. A group of about 100 Arabs, calling itself the […]
Conflicting reports on IDF radio. Egyptian sources claim entire Israeli diplomatic staff returning home to Israel. Reuters says that the embassy staff are remaining and the embassy remains open as usual.
The U.S. Embassy and other sites connected with the U.S. were allegedly the target of terrorist attacks that were thwarted by the arrest of 11 suspected terrorists in Indonesia over the weekend.
It should come as no surprise to readers that The Jewish Press endorses Governor Mitt Romney in the November 6 presidential election. We’ve regularly expressed serious concerns about Barack Obama’s views on the Middle East in general and the Arab-Israeli situation in particular from the onset of his 2008 presidential campaign through his four years in the White House.
By Adam Levick
An official Guardian editorial on Oct. 1, ‘In praise of the political cartoon,' commended the Egyptian newspaper Al Watan for “publishing… pictures with the message that the west misunderstands Islam," which the editorial contrasted with “Charlie Hebdo's senselessly inflammatory caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.” Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical magazine which printed a set of cartoons on Sept. 19 featuring Muhammad which included […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A small group of Israelis, many university students, gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Monday evening in a show of support and friendship with America. The rally, organized by the pro-Israel student movement, Im Tirzu, came in response to the recent attacks on U.S. embassies across the Middle East.
In a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, eight members of congress have demanded that a request to release Omar Abdel-Rahman from federal prison be rejected. Abdel-Rahman, known as the “blind sheikh,” inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and is serving a life sentence for his role in a plot to conduct assassinations and destroy bridges, tunnels and other landmarks in New York City.
The head of the supreme security committee in Benghazi, Libya, quit his position on Wednesday, citing tension between the ministry of interior and the security services.
The "Innocence of Muslims" film was a pretext to boost radical Islamists. The media are downplaying this angle, because it suggests that the administration policy toward the Muslim world expressed in the President’s Cairo speech of 2009 is dangerously wrong-headed.
Canada suspended diplomatic relations with Iran, closing down its embassy in Iran and giving Iranian diplomats in Canada five days to leave Canadian soil.
The online Irish website, TheJournal, reports that the Israeli embassy in Dublin was evacuated early Tuesday afternoon after a suspicious package was discovered. An army bomb disposal team was sent to the site. Source: http://www.thejournal.ie/suspicious-package-israeli-embassy-dublin-566588-Aug2012/ Hattip: Challah Hu Achbar
To put it mildly, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel didn’t go over well with spokesmen for the Palestinians, the Obama administration and a number of columnists and commentators who echoed their criticisms.
When it comes to carrying out deadly terrorist attacks on Israelis and/or Jews, just how dangerous and persistent is the government of Iran?
A tight, organized network of Iranian terrorists seems to be using elementary schools, universities and government institutions -- not to mention manipulating the multicultural system -- to promote its messages of propaganda and hate, apparently with the ultimate goal of conquering the "infidel."
Iran has used operatives in assassination attempts on Israeli and American diplomats in seven countries over a period of 13 months, the Washington Post reported. Last November, the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan received a message that then Ambassador Matthew Bryza was the target of a plot to kill Americans, along with other embassy officials. U.S. […]
By J. E. Dyer
The whole world knows the peril Chen and his family are in. The right approach here is not to seek a “solution” that gets the governments of China and the US off the hook; it’s to stand by Chen and demand that he be treated with the respect for his rights as understood in the Helsinki Accords. While China is not a signatory to the Accords, their standard for freedom, travel and emigration, and reunification of families is the touchstone to be invoked in this instance.
Turkey has closed its embassy in Syria because of what it says is a worsening security situation, as President Bashar al-Assad continue to bombard the city of Homs. Turkey informed its citizens last week that it was suspending all activities at its embassy in Damascus and called on them to return to Turkey. Turkey, a onetime ally […]
Embassy also shuts down its visa section.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry has rejected the New Year’s wishes of Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, sending the letter back because it called Jerusalem the capital of the State of Israel.
June 26, 2026 
