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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s vote as a positive step for U.S. policy on Israel, a source familiar with the prime minister’s thinking told Jewish Insider.
Netanyahu hopes that Trump will return to his former policies on Iran that were dropped by the Biden administration, the source said. Those policies include major sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
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Peter Deutsch, a former Democratic congressman from South Florida who endorsed Donald Trump for president last month, has recently spoken with multiple people about his interest in becoming the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Deutsch, who spent the past month volunteering as a Trump surrogate in Pennsylvania and splits his time between Florida and Israel, has not been in direct touch with the campaign about the role, one source confirmed to Jewish Insider on Wednesday.
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Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), in a letter sent earlier this week, urged Secretary of State Tony Blinken to block a member of the British parliament from entering the United States.
According to Mast, MP Naseem Shah of the U.K.’s Labour party spoke in 2021 on a panel organized by the Palestinian Return Centre, whose chair was sanctioned by the United States, which described him as a senior Hamas member in Europe.
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A federal lawsuit against Harvard University that alleges the school has ignored the harassment of Jewish students for more than a year is set to begin after a U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday rejected Harvard’s request for dismissal, but denied claims that the school directly discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students.
Filed in May in federal court in Boston by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, the lawsuit alleges that since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, students and faculty on campus have called for violence against Jews and celebrated Hamas’ terrorism daily as the university did nothing to stop harassment —- including a physical assault — of Jewish students. Five months earlier, the group filed a previous complaint against the university’s John F. Kennedy School of Government for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, replacing him with Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday, amid longstanding public acrimony between Gallant and Netanyahu even as Israel has been engaged in a multifront war against Iran and its terror proxies.
In a video statement, Netanyahu said, “Unfortunately, while in the first months of the [war] there was trust [between him and Gallant] and very fertile work, in recent months the trust was eroded between me and the defense minister.”
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When Traci Siegel opened her email on Sunday, she was shocked to learn that her vote in the presidential election might not count.
Siegel, who lives in Israel, voted absentee in her home state in Pennsylvania, as she had many times before, in accordance with federal law requiring states to allow Americans who live abroad to vote for federal office via their last county of residence. But this year, someone she does not know paid $10 to appeal against her vote.
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NEWTOWN, Pa. — Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, spent the evening before Election Day courting undecided voters and Trump loyalists alike at a rally in Bucks County, one of the most purple districts in must-win Pennsylvania.
Vance focused primarily on illegal immigration, the economy and the Trump-Vance plan for boosting American manufacturing. He also made the occasional joke.
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Jewish parents and educators in Chicago were relieved after Board of Education President Rev. Mitchell Johnson resigned last week following widespread public criticism of his antisemitic Facebook posts. But antisemitism concerns within the district still linger — and Jewish educators’ and community members’ confidence in the district to address them is waning.
Last Friday, the day after Johnson resigned from the Board of Education, the body held a public meeting. Dan Goldwin, chief public affairs officer at the Jewish United Fund of Chicago, took to the microphone to express concerns on behalf of Jewish families in Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
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