Meet me at the Western (Wailing) Wall?

By Carmen Fowler LaBerge | September 16, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio began his trip to Israel with a visit on Sunday to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomed him with an affirmation of the U.S.-Israel relationship, even as it is tested by the war in Gaza.  “I think his visit here is a testament…

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Resource: Primer on Israel

By Carmen Fowler LaBerge | February 17, 2025

Updated February 2025 On the morning of October 7, 2024, Hamas, a terrorist group based in Gaza, executed a cross-border attack on southeastern Israel. The attack took place on the Sabbath when many of the people in the self-sustaining communal Kibbutz villages and towns were in their homes. Many of them still in their beds.…

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