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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

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Then-US president Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside an Iron Dome missile defense battery during Obama's visit to Israel in March 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 6, 2013, 8:30 pm
Israel may forgo millions in US missile defense budget aid
Ambassador Oren: ‘We must bear the burden that our American friends are bearing’
By Mitch Ginsburg
Former defense minister Ehud Barak, center, speaks to US soldiers during a joint Israeli-hosted military exercise, October 23, 2012 (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90/File)
June 21, 2013, 1:56 pm
US cuts military aid to Israel by five percent
Measure is part of across-the-board spending cuts; reduction expected to affect F-35 purchases, joint exercises
By ToI Staff
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Royce with Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
April 18, 2013, 2:03 am
US aid to Israel could be slashed, Kerry says
White House budget request had maintained $3.1 billion for Jerusalem, but sequestration could see the figure shrink, secretary of state says
By Joshua Davidovich
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Barack Obama at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem in March 2013. (photo credit: Pete Souza/Official White House)
April 15, 2013, 8:22 am
Obama asks to keep billions for Israel and Egypt in budget
Washington sources caution that sequestration still looms, absent a broader budget deal in Washington
By Haviv Rettig Gur
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel with former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after a meeting at the Pentagon on March 5, 2013. (photo credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/DOD)
March 6, 2013, 1:02 am
Hagel tells Barak US will keep funding Israeli missile defense
Despite financial constraints, administration will maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge, new secretary of defense promises in warm first confab with foreign counterpart
By ToI Staff
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
March 5, 2013, 11:58 pm
Hagel meets Barak in first confab with foreign counterpart
Meeting covers Syria, Iran and expected sequestration cuts to US funding of Israel’s missile defense programs
By Haviv Rettig Gur
US President Barack Obama waves after his ceremonial swearing-in at the US Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
March 2, 2013, 9:15 am
Obama calls budget cuts ‘just dumb’
US president signs order authorizing the sequester; puts the blame squarely on Republicans
By Steven R. Hurst
The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense (CC BY-SA mindfrieze, Flickr)
March 2, 2013, 2:22 am
Barak to be first foreign counterpart to meet Hagel
Tuesday talks at the Pentagon to focus on Iran, says US official
By Ron Friedman and Haviv Rettig Gur
An Iron Dome battery placed in the Tel Aviv area on November 17, 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense (photo credit: Alon Besson/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)
March 1, 2013, 8:35 am
Sequestration may have dramatic repercussions for IDF
Israeli military procurement budget, including Iron Dome and Arrow missile defense, could face a $300-million cut
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be one of the high-profile no-shows at next week's AIPAC policy conference in Washington. (Robert J. Saferstein/JTA)
February 27, 2013, 7:26 pm
AIPAC agenda omits Obama, Netanyahu and the Palestinians
Pro-Israel lobby’s annual conference, set for next week in Washington, will be first in seven years without US or Israeli leader
By Ron Kampeas
John Kerry will head back to Capitol Hill to brief the full Senate on Thursday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
February 21, 2013, 1:59 am
Kerry: US budget woes may hit aid to Israel
Congressionally-mandated cuts, kicking in March 1, will likely lead to reduction in military assistance
William Daroff, vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), gives testimony at a hearing by the United States House Ways and Means Committee on 'Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress and Tax Reform and Charitable Contributions' in Washington, DC, on February 14, 2013. (Ron Sachs)
February 20, 2013, 6:12 pm
Charities grapple with Washington’s fiscal chaos
Congressional wrangling over looming ‘sequester’ and the deficit leaves Jewish and other groups bracing for potentially massive cuts
By Haviv Rettig Gur
December 21, 2012, 8:07 pm
Jewish clergy lobby against social program spending cuts
Rabbis join other religious leaders in call to protect poor during US ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations
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