OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell are among the tech and AI executives expected to attend the White House’s state dinner on Thursday night for Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to CNBC and a partial attendee list shared on Friday by the White House.

The list of expected attendees also includes the CEOs of Nvidia, Google and Citigroup, as well as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Politico reported on Tuesday that OpenAI President Greg Brockman is also slated to attend.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has, like her House counterpart, placed a procedural hold on a $2.8 billion sale of bombs to Israel, a source familiar with the situation told Jewish Insider.

Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced last week that he had also placed a hold on the sale. Traditionally, such holds would prevent the sales from going forward, though the Trump administration has bypassed them in the past.

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, the president of Somaliland, the pro-Western region that broke away from Somalia, discussed deepening partnerships with the U.S., including expanded U.S.-Somaliland military cooperation, during a visit last week to Washington, D.C.

Israel was the first state to recognize Somaliland’s independence last year, more than three decades after the region declared independence, though the U.S. has maintained direct and indirect relationships with the government, based in Hargeisa.

This week’s upcoming United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York City will serve as the backdrop for a “diplomatic marathon” by the American Jewish Committee’s leadership to meet with representatives and leaders of more than 50 countries — a tradition the AJC has carried on for decades.

On the agenda are a range of subjects, including confronting close U.S. allies that have recently decided to impose sanctions on what they deem to be Israeli-occupied territories, including  West Bank settlements as well as east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, expected to be the next member of Congress representing Philadelphia, posed for a photo on Thursday with Medea Benjamin, a leader of the anti-American and pro-Iran group Code Pink.

“It’s going to be so great having @ChrisRabb in Congress!!!,” Benjamin said alongside the photo shared on X.

When Deborah Lipstadt returned to academia last year after nearly three years navigating the State Department as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, she had a new mission: to turn what she learned in government into a training ground for the next generation of policymakers confronting antisemitism.

Lipstadt, a longtime Emory University historian, announced last week the launch of the Emory Policy Institute on Countering Antisemitism. The institute will pair undergraduate fellowships with summer internships in Washington; offer seminars for diplomats, journalists and policymakers; and track how governments are implementing the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism that Lipstadt helped develop while serving as special envoy under President Joe Biden.

Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s under secretary for policy, is once again facing criticism from senators who said he was evasive, unresponsive and even disrespectful at a classified briefing on Thursday regarding the implementation of the National Defense Strategy.

Senators said that, among other issues, Colby had failed to provide clear answers regarding the war in Iran. 

Amos Hochstein, a senior Middle East negotiator in the Biden administration, on Thursday argued in favor of the Trump administration’s nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, which opens the path for nuclear enrichment inside the kingdom.

Hochstein, who was involved in negotiating civil nuclear issues with Saudi Arabia during the previous administration as part of a broader Saudi-Israeli normalization agreement, made the comments during a debate at the Council on Foreign Relations, organized by the nonprofit Open to Debate. The comments by Hochstein, currently a managing partner at TWG Global, come even as many congressional Democrats oppose the deal and some are taking steps to attempt to block it.