Trump Says Israel's Aid Ends
He gave it eight weeks. Israel's Defense Ministry did not see it coming.
Trump says U.S. military aid to Israel ends this year. He told Fox News Tuesday that the $4 billion a year stops after 2026: "Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal." A senior official at Israel's Defense Ministry said, "We did not expect this announcement." Netanyahu has talked about a phaseout over a decade. Trump's version takes eight weeks. 1
Israel's election results go to President Herzog at noon Wednesday. Elections chief Noam Sohlberg refused Likud a delay, writing that the committee has "no authority" to wait on probes. 2 Shin Bet chief David Zini wants to question four Arab politicians, including Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, over alleged Qatari interference. He has produced evidence against only one, i24News reports, and the attorney general says no one gets questioned without it. 3
A bomb threat held up an Israel-bound cruise ship in Greece. Greek authorities got a tip Tuesday that an explosive was on the hull of the Crown Iris, run by Israel's Mano Maritime. Its 940 passengers waited ashore on Syros; the first search found nothing. 4
Gail Simmons wrote a book on how to be a guest, and Jewish life supplies a lot of the examples. Guesting, from the woman who spent 20 years on Bravo's "Top Chef," leans on Passover, Yom Kippur and b'nai mitzvah to make its case that there is "a gaping hole in our collective confidence about how to behave when invited anywhere." For Kveller, she listed what brings her Jewish joy. Her dad made applesauce in big batches every fall, froze it in mason jars, and turned it fuchsia with a few dark plums; it went on her mother's Hanukkah latkes, and she "cannot eat homemade latkes without it." Her 8-year-old son asked to hold his birthday party at The Pickle Guys. 5
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