The Los Angeles dollars—or shekels—spent may not have approached the amount Hollywood throws around for U.S. elections, but Jews in Los Angeles nevertheless managed to funnel about $175,000 into Israel’s party primaries this election cycle.
Where does American Jewish communal funding for Israel go? Do we have a right to know?
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the first visit to Cairo by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, called for a strategic alliance with Egypt and said he had offered the cash-strapped Arab state a loan, but drew a cool response.
UNESCO voted to designate a nature reserve in northern Israel as a World Heritage Site.\n
The Obama administration said it would rush $70 million to Israel in order to enhance its Iron Dome missile defense system, with more money in the pipeline.
The Hadassah Medical Center has not been able to pay its suppliers, an Israeli business daily has reported.
\”Starting from zero,\” the foreign assistance plan touted by leading Republican candidates at a debate, is getting low marks, and not just from Democrats and the foreign policy community. Pro-Israel activists and fellow Republicans also have concerns.
Israel has suspended $100 million in tax payments to the Palestinian Authority.
Israel said on Thursday it would freeze its funding to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO following the group\’s decision to grant the Palestinians full membership.
Canada\’s foreign affairs minister said his country would continue paying dues to UNESCO but would not offer the agency any additional money.
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