U.S. President Donald Trump’s scheduled meeting on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely emphasize the importance of countering Iranian aggression and maintaining America’s bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross told reporters on Monday. Ross, who worked as an advisor to Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack...

President Donald Trump should sign a new free trade agreement with Israel and extend the Visa Waiver Program to cover Israelis, the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama wrote on Tuesday. Daniel Shapiro, who co-authored the analysis with his senior advisor Scott Lasensky, credited Obama with making progress on...

Turkish Tourism Minister Nabi Avci arrived in Israel on Tuesday as part of the first high-level visit since last year’s reconciliation agreement between Jerusalem and Ankara. Avci joined representatives from 57 other countries, including 15 foreign ministers, at the International Mediterranean Tourism Market 2017 expo in Tel Aviv. “The bilateral relations...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday in London, where the two leaders spoke of ways to enhance bilateral ties and address mutual threats. At the start of his meeting with May, Netanyahu—who said he has a photo of Winston Churchill near one...

Israeli tech firms are engaged in secret, extensive business dealings with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, a trend that could be a harbinger of more open cooperation, Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman reported in Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday. According to Shmuel Bar, a former Israeli intelligence official who developed a program...

A delegation of school principals and teachers from Paipa municipality in Colombia came to Israel last month to learn educational strategies that will strengthen local schools back home. The South American educators took part in a tailor-made professional program on Education towards Sustainable Development (ESD) conducted by MASHAV, Israel’s international...