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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would fire State Department officials if they refused to move America's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, his adviser on Israel David Friedman told a crowd of supporters at the David's Harp restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City Wednesday. In a minute-long taped address, Trump praised Jewish values, said he loved Israel, and spoke with pride about his Jewish daughter, Ivanka and her husband, Jarerd Kushner.
The White House accused Israel of a betrayal of trust Wednesday, in an unusually sharp rebuke over its plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes deep in the West Bank. Days after President Barack Obama approved a $38 billion Israeli military aid package and attended former president Shimon Peres's funeral in Jerusalem, the White House railed at the construction of 300 housing units on land "far closer to Jordan than Israel."
Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed 'to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in the survival of the Palestinian people as a whole'. The Israeli navy on Wednesday stopped a boat carrying international female activists, preventing them from breaking the blockade of Gaza.
In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave of unrest, a Palestinian upheaval, or even the "Jerusalem Intifada." Whatever the name, the past year has seen an intensification of deadly violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.
In this March 20, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, are photographed through a window and the crowd as they are greeted by children waving Israeli and American flags upon their arrival at the Peres' residence in Jerusalem. Support for Israel has been a mainstay of American foreign policy since the Jewish state's creation in 1948.
Israelis mourn as they visit the grave of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, after his burial ceremony at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. The family of former president Shimon Peres, who was laid to rest Friday in a state funeral attended by dozens of world leaders, began the Jewish mourning tradition of shiva on Saturday evening.
The White House on Friday corrected a press release on President Barack Obama's remarks at late Israeli President Shimon Peres' funeral to clarify their location. The original version of the remarks identified the location as Jerusalem, Israel.
Israeli leader Shimon Peres was eulogized at a cemetery ceremony in Jerusalem on Friday by President Barack Obama and other world leaders. Peres, who held government positions since Israel's 1948 founding and was president, prime minister, cabinet member, parliament member and Nobel Prize laureate in his long career, died Wednesday at 93 after a stroke.
U.S. President Barack Obama condoles family members, after the burial ceremony at the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016.
On a cloudless blue morning, an honor guard brought the flag-draped casket of Shimon Peres to the Mount Herzl national cemetery on Friday as 100 world leaders and dignitaries from 70 countries assembled to bid a final farewell to the former Israeli leader and Nobel laureate. President Barack Obama, who was the last to speak, said that the contribution made by Peres to Israel was "so fundamental, so pervasive, it can sometimes be overlooked."
Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Israel to pay tributes to Shimon Peres, one of the country's founding fathers, who died on Wednesday aged 93. A funeral procession is en route to the national cemetery in Jerusalem, where Mr Peres will be laid to rest. A security crackdown ahead of the ceremony has led to the "preventative arrests" of several people.
U.S. President Barack Obama touches the casket of former Israeli President Shimon Peres after speaking during his funeral at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 JERUSALEM -- President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw "all people as deserving of dignity and respect."
Israelis, along with dignitaries from around the world, were gathering in Jerusalem Friday for the funeral of former President Shimon Peres. U.S. President Barack Obama , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Francois Hollande, German President Joachim Gauck and scores of other world leaders are attending the funeral.
Former US President Bill Clinton accompanied by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Yuli Edelstein, the Speaker of the Knesset, pays his final respects at the coffin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Knesset plaza in Jerusalem, yesterday. Former US President Bill Clinton joined thousands of Israeli mourners yesterday who paid their respects to the late Shimon Peres outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, as the country somberly remembered the Nobel-winning politician who helped lead Israel during a remarkable seven-decade career.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders gathered in Israel on Friday for the funeral of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and president whose pursuit of an elusive peace with the Palestinians won international embrace. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also planned to attend the burial, which will be held in the "Great Leaders of the Nation" section of Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery.
In this March 21, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres raise their glasses in a toast after Obama received the Israeli Medal of Distinction from Peres during a State Dinner at President's residence in Jerusalem, Israel. Both were Nobel Prize laureates who labored for peace in the Middle East but failed to achieve it.
More than 70 U.S. intellectuals have called for a targeted boycott of all goods and services from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The boycott call came in an open letter in the Oct. 13 New York Review of Books.
29, 2016, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. . Military Personnel salute as Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, prepares to departs at Andrews Air Force Base Md., Thursday, Sept.
Republican congressional leaders will not be joining President Obama's bipartisan delegation to attend Friday's state funeral for former Israeli President Shimon Peres. Both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer joined the U.S. presidential delegation, which departed Thursday afternoon for Jerusalem.