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4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (157+ words) Middle East Eye 'Not a lot of fighting in Gaza': Trump praises Kushner, Witkoff US president Donald Trump has credited his envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, with “doing a great” job in Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Asked whether he harboured…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (854+ words) JERUSALEM, Israel | Israeli President Isaac Herzog is making Jewish peoplehood and the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry central priorities for the final years of his presidency. Herzog, who has roughly two years remaining in his seven-year term, identified three…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago   (233+ words) US President Donald Trump's special envoy Jared Kushner has confirmed that Washington leveraged international condemnation following Israel's September 2025 air strike in Doha to push Israeli leaders toward a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release agreement. "Israel did the strike in Doha, which…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago   (324+ words) JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party on Sunday rejected remarks by White House adviser Jared Kushner that the United States used Israel’s diplomatic isolation after a 2025 strike in Doha to push Jerusalem into a hostage-and-ceasefire agreement with Hamas....

8+ hour, 43+ min ago   (256+ words) The US was successful in clinching the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal by leveraging the “global isolation” Israel faced after it carried out a strike on Hamas’s headquarters in Doha last September, president Trump’s envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has said....

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (232+ words) UA.NEWS Nauru opens embassy in Jerusalem, Israel The Republic of Nauru officially opened an embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, during a visit by a delegation led by Vice President and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Justice Lionel Rouwen Aingimea....

9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1005+ words) A senior delegation from the Republic of Nauru (Naoero) arrived in Israel this week, led by Vice President and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Justice Minister Lionel Rouwen Aingimea. The delegation included ministers and members of parliament. At the heart of…...

11+ hour, 18+ min ago   (16+ words) Kushner says US used Israel’s ‘terrible’ Qatar strike fallout to push Israel into Gaza deal worldisraelnews.com...

19+ hour, 11+ min ago   (313+ words) US negotiators used the international backlash against Israel following its failed attempt to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar as leverage to secure the Gaza hostage and ceasefire agreement, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner said at a security…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (129+ words) Al Jazeera US Special Envoy Jared Kushner says Doha attack left Israel ‘globally isolated’ The US Special Envoy for Peace, Jared Kushner, says Israel’s failed attack on Hamas leadership in Doha was ‘terrible’ and left the country ‘globally isolated’. He…...