David Friedman

Illustrative: An Israeli policeman walks near cement cubes placed as a roadblock by Israeli security forces on a road linking the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina with West Jerusalem on September 15, 2021 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

US set to cease scientific, tech cooperation with Israeli entities over Green Line

Move said to be resumption of policy that was reversed under Trump administration; Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells reporters that the decision ‘is wrong’

June 25, 2023, 7:15 pm

US set to cease scientific, tech cooperation with Israeli entities over Green Line

Move said to be resumption of policy that was reversed under Trump administration; Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells reporters that the decision ‘is wrong’

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US President Donald Trump listens as US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at a news conference at the White House in Washington, August 13, 2020, after the announcement of fully normalized ties between Israel and the UAE. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

June 13, 2023, 9:22 pm

Trump’s ambassador to Israel David Friedman endorses old boss in 2024 election

Ex-envoy says ‘no president has more strongly supported Israel’ than current GOP frontrunner; Friedman has stuck with Trump amid scandals

By Jacob Magid

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides speaks in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023 (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post/pool)

April 27, 2023, 5:32 pm

US envoy Nides: Despite occasional disagreements, support for Israel is ‘rock-solid’

Amid ongoing tensions between Biden’s White House and Netanyahu government, Washington’s ambassador strikes an optimistic note

By Lazar Berman

At Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors prepare for the March of the Living, April 18, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

April 18, 2023, 4:08 pm

At Auschwitz March of the Living, displays of Jewish unity in a sea of Israeli flags

During the 35th annual 3-kilometer march at the former extermination camp, sorrow, shock but also pride and gratitude are exhibited by 9,000 participants from all over the world

By Canaan Lidor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, US ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his wife Tammy at an American Independence Day celebration in Jerusalem, July 2, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

March 2, 2023, 5:09 am

Breaking with Netanyahu, ex-US envoy Friedman pushes back against judicial overhaul

Speaking at conferences last week, Trump’s ambassador to Israel took issue with plan for override clause, countering MK leading push and warning it will harm minority rights

By Jacob Magid

Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson shakes hands after his lecture in Jerusalem, October 6, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

October 12, 2022, 10:53 pm

Jordan Peterson, ‘lightning rod’ of US culture wars, receives warm embrace in Israel

Thousands gather to hear Canadian psychologist in Jerusalem, with some seeing it as a harbinger of US-style ideas about to transform Israeli conservatism

By Lazar Berman

Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, takes part in a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

August 18, 2022, 5:03 pm

Hosted by GOP Jewish group, Dr. Oz makes case for becoming first-ever Muslim senator

Seeking to close in on J Street-backed Democratic frontrunner, Republican nominee says he won’t pressure Israel, mostly leaves Trump and far-right governor candidate unmentioned

By Jacob Magid

Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane, 2nd from left, vies for the ball with Roma's Brazilian defender Roger, center, during a friendly match between England's Tottenham Hotspurs and Italy's AS Roma at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, July 30, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

August 16, 2022, 2:04 pm

Daily Briefing Aug. 16: Tweet leads to UN dismissal; UK soccer adopts survivor story

US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses reaction to a post on rocket fire, plus Kushner’s book, as environmental reporter Sue Surkes reveals her father-in-law’s Holocaust legacy

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on July 31, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

August 12, 2022, 5:58 pm

Backing Netanyahu, Dermer pans Kushner claim ex-PM went rogue with annexation pledge

Like Likud chief, ex-Israeli envoy points to exchange of letters by 2 leaders, which purportedly saw US commit to backing move, but the memos were more complicated than that

By Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

August 5, 2022, 4:26 pm

Fiasco in the East Room: The trainwreck unveiling of the Trump peace plan

Two and a half years after the event, Jared Kushner finally explains how a carefully constructed effort ‘to improve the lives of the Palestinian and Israeli people’ was derailed

By David Horovitz

US President Donald Trump (left) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

August 4, 2022, 8:11 pm

Netanyahu hits back at ‘baseless’ claim he shocked Trump with annexation declaration

Likud says ex-PM made announcement upon receiving letter from Trump giving him green light, countering Kushner book saying Netanyahu, ex-envoy Friedman went rogue

By Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation in 2019. (US Attorneys Office for Utah via AP)

August 1, 2022, 2:09 pm

Daily Briefing August 1: Fentanyl devastation; did Trump plan West Bank annexation?

US correspondent Jacob Magid on Jared Kushner’s new book and Israel’s move against the PA’s ‘pay-for-slay’; NY reporter Luke Tress on the scourge of opioid overdoses across the US

By ToI Staff

Then-US president Donald Trump, center, is flanked by then-ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and then-senior adviser Jared Kushner in the Oval Office on August 12, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

July 31, 2022, 11:17 pm

In new book, Kushner claims envoy Friedman went rogue to okay West Bank annexation

Top Trump aide says ‘my knuckles turned white’ as Netanyahu used peace plan rollout to promise sovereignty in settlements and Jordan Valley, did so thanks to Friedman’s assurances

By Jacob Magid

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