By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — May 9, 2017 … Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, this afternoon met with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford and discussed the continued deepening of bilateral security relations as well as the common challenges. Prime… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — July 25, 2016 … The following was communicated by the Israel Prime Ministers Office to the Israel News Agency: “The Acting Head of the National Security Council, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Jacob Nagel, will head to Washington on July 31, 2016, for meetings with his White House… Read More »
What have we learned in 14 years? By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York — September 10, 2015 … You don’t buy a knife for someone who wants to murder you. You don’t give 150 billion dollars to a terror state, Iran, which chants “Death To America”. If you do give 150 billion dollars… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — June 11, 2015 … Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning, in Jerusalem, met with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey and told him at the start of their meeting: “You’ve been a wonderful friend and a grand champion of America… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — April 1, 2015 … The deadline for achieving a framework agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program has come and gone. France and Germany have left the negotiations stating “things had not advanced enough for an immediate deal.” As Obama continues to beg for any kind of agreement… Read More »
By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — March 31, 2015 … Part of the following was communicated by the Prime Minister’s Office to the Israel News Agency. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today addressed the opening of the 20th Knesset. “The greatest threat to our security and to our future was and remains Iran’s effort to arm… Read More »
Israeli malls are well defended from terror attacks. By Rebecca McCann Israel News Agency Washington, D.C. — February 23, 2015 … Perhaps the true achilles heel of America’s war on Islamic terrorism are the soft targets that everybody ignores. Among them are US shopping malls. They have been placed in a dark closet with the American government and… Read More »
“Real Islam teaches to help, not hurt strangers.” Photo: Joel Leyden By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New England, USA — January 17, 2015 … The above mosque is not in Iraq, Syria, Turkey or Iran. But one would have wished it was. The speaker was Dr. Saud Anwar, mayor of South Windsor, Connecticut. Dr. Anwar… Read More »
Samantha Power, US ambassador to UN, right, votes during a meeting of the UN Security Council. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York, New York — December 30 … Lethal, Islamic terror attacks and the potential for a new Middle East war were avoided this evening as the UN Security Council defeated a Palestinian resolution… Read More »
By Israel News Agency Staff Jerusalem, Israel — December 7, 2014 … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks at the start of the Cabinet meeting: “Over the weekend I spoke with Jonathan Pollard’s wife Esther and with US Secretary of State John Kerry. I told him that the uncertain state of Jonathan’s… Read More »