After years of talks, Israel is set to establish an international airport in southern Israel, in a major economic boost for the Negev region, the government announced on Thursday. The new airport, which will be located in the area of the Ziklag archaeological site,

South Africa has declared Israel’s deputy ambassador persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours.

Days before Schumer’s remarks, the Trump administration bypassed Congress to approve a $7 billion arms sale to Israel.

Last week, UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein, who is stepping down this summer after nearly a dozen years at the helm of the country’s largest Jewish federation, cut the ribbon on the new Beit Nova center for survivors of the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct.

The Trump administration has approved a massive new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion.

“Oh God, deal with the Jews who have seized and occupied, for they cannot escape your power,” Sheikh Saleh bin Humaid, an imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, said in a recent sermon.