Twenty years after his death, writes Dina Ezzat, for many Yasser Arafat remains the face of the Palestinian cause ...

Yechiel Leiter, a staunch defender of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and vocal advocate for the war in Gaza, is set to become Israel’s new ambassador to the US. His appointment by ...

He was also an aide to the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when he was a member of the Knesset ... Leiter, who will replace ...

Leiter, who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania ... during his tenure as finance minister and working as an aide to the late ...

Yechiel Leiter, a Scranton, Pa.-born former aide to Israeli Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, will be Israels next ambassador to the U.S., the Prime Minister’s Office announced on ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed US-born academic Yechiel Leiter as Israel's next ambassador to the United States. Leiter, ...

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