Obama: ‘No basis in fact’ to accusations US orchestrated UN anti-settlements vote The president told an Israeli TV reporter that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always had a friend in the White House, but he never realized it.
New York Times taps new Jerusalem bureau chief Ian Fisher, an assistant editor, joined the newspaper in 1990 and reported from Israel during the second intifada.
Across the US, 16 JCCs get bomb threats in a single day Hundreds of people were evacuated because of the threats that one security official said were designed to produce maximum disruption.