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2020 AIPAC Policy Conference

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March 30, 2020, 8:15 am
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By Marcy Oster
Then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 policy conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
March 12, 2020, 5:24 pm
Sixth person present at AIPAC conference diagnosed with coronavirus
Maryland announces 3 new cases in state, including man in his 60s who worked at recent policy gathering
By ToI Staff
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, March 2, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
March 10, 2020, 6:10 pm
2 more AIPAC attendees test positive for coronavirus, bringing total to 5
Cleveland-area man in his 50s employed by Jewish Education Center of Cleveland and lay leader at Toronto’s Beth Sholom Synagogue diagnosed after returning from DC
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Israel via video link at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP/File)
March 9, 2020, 8:19 pm
AIPAC caught in the middle of coronavirus quandary
Two conference attendees tested positive for virus; unclear if they interacted with any members of Congress while in nation’s capital
By ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
March 7, 2020, 4:36 pm
US health officials say no known risk to AIPAC attendees despite infections
Pro-Israel lobby group has said two people at policy conference tested positive for coronavirus, raising fears Pence and other politicians exposed
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Congressman Ted Deutch at the Crypt of the Capitol, during the annual tour he gives to Camp Ramah alumni during the AIPAC Policy Conference, this year on March 1, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 7, 2020, 4:37 am
A Capitol Hill reunion with a camper who became a congressman
Florida Democrat Ted Deutch shows off his workplace to Ramah campers, staff and alumni from all over the US
By Jessica Steinberg
Then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 policy conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
March 7, 2020, 2:19 am
AIPAC warns Congress that two conference attendees have coronavirus
Pro-Israel lobby group sends notice to congressional offices and all 18,000 who were at annual confab, including Pompeo, Pence, Bloomberg, other lawmakers
By Agencies
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
March 5, 2020, 1:15 am
AIPAC alerts participants that some were in contact with coronavirus patient
18,000 attended pro-Israel lobby confab earlier in week; DC Health Department considers conference to have been a ‘low risk’ exposure
By Ron Kampeas
Democratic Representative Ted Deutch of Florida during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, at Capitol Hill in Washington, February 6, 2019. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
March 4, 2020, 10:28 am
Democratic congressman: Pence turned AIPAC speech into a ‘political rally’
Veteran lawmaker Ted Deutch says VP’s address at pro-Israel confab sign that Trump team will politicize Jewish state throughout 2020
By Eric Cortellessa
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, right, speaking at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Washington, DC, March 2, 2020 (Dimitrije Goll/Presidency of Serbia)
March 4, 2020, 12:54 am
Serbia to open ‘official state office’ in Jerusalem as sign of ‘respect’ to Jews
Addressing AIPAC convention in DC, President Vučić stops short of announcing embassy move, says he’s ‘trying to find the best possible way to do something officially in Jerusalem’
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, in Washington, March 2, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)
March 3, 2020, 8:11 am
Sanders and Trump skip AIPAC, but take center stage anyway
Absences of Republican president and leading Democrat candidate to replace him underscore increasing threat to viability of a pro-Israel posture that rests on bipartisanship
By Ron Kampeas
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)
March 3, 2020, 5:13 am
At AIPAC, Trump’s Israel envoy takes aim at Democrats, pushes peace plan
David Friedman launches partisan broadside against progressives, backs settlements, even as pro-Israel lobby attempts to highlight bipartisanship
By Eric Cortellessa
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, March 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
March 2, 2020, 8:37 pm
Pence to AIPAC: Sanders would be ‘most anti-Israel’ president in US history
US vice president touts Trump administration’s Israel policies, attacks Democratic presidential frontrunner
By Eric Cortellessa
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2020 Conference, March 2, 2020 in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)
March 2, 2020, 6:23 pm
Bloomberg to AIPAC: I’ll never condition aid to Israel, no matter who’s PM
Former New York City mayor calls Sanders’ attack on pro-Israel lobby ‘dead wrong,’ condemns US elected officials using Israel as a ‘football’
By Eric Cortellessa
Former vice president Joe Biden in a video address to AIPAC, March 2, 2020 (Screen grab/Twitter)
March 2, 2020, 2:19 pm
Biden tells AIPAC Israel’s policies undermining support among US youth
Democratic primary candidate says in video message that annexation plans and settlement activities ‘choking hopes for peace’; calls on Palestinians to end incitement, rocket fire
By ToI Staff
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