Congressmen introduce bill to create Israeli-Palestinian peace fund The measure introduced by Reps. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., and Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., would require the U.S. to provide at least $50 million to the fund annually from 2017 to 2021.
Sen. Lindsey Graham reintroduces bill to nix aid to Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists The bill is named for an American stabbed to death last year in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist.
Natan Sharansky agrees to stay an extra year as Jewish Agency chief Sharansky had said in September that he would not stay on past June, despite a request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.