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Settlers gesture to the camera as they remain outside the besieged homes of Palestinian residents in Qusra, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, August 13, 2026 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 13, 2026, 1:02 pm
IDF removes Palestinians from homes for op said aimed at clearing harassing settlers
Army backtracks from evacuation order, but some residents say they still haven’t been allowed back into besieged Qusra home; Huckabee says IDF in Qusra at his request, slams the settlers as ‘Israeli terrorists’
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Armenian Christians, accompanied by Israeli volunteers, enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2026, 11:11 pm
Foreign Ministry, Huckabee pan WSJ report on harassment of Christians in Israel
Jerusalem argues story on rise in attacks on clerics ‘took radical voices, extreme cases and turned them into the face of a country’; US envoy: Attacks ‘occasional but rare’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew with Israeli artist Doron Adorian and her painting, 'Green,' at the ambassador's Jerusalem residence on September 20, 2024 (David Azagury, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)
September 25, 2024, 5:22 pm
US ambassador fills home with Israeli art showing post-Oct. 7 resilience
Jack Lew opens official residence and shows off a collection built up over the tumultuous first year of his posting
By Jessica Steinberg
Jack Lew, US President Joe Biden's nominee to be the US ambassador to Israel, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
November 1, 2023, 2:53 am
Jack Lew approved as next US envoy to Israel in confirmation fast-tracked by war
Two GOP senators vote with Democrats in favor of ex-treasury chief, who will take charge of American mission in Jerusalem in wake of Hamas onslaught on October 7
By Jacob Magid and JTA
Jacob Lew, former treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, arrives to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination as Ambassador to the State of Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Stephanie Scarbrough)
October 19, 2023, 6:08 am
Biden’s Israel envoy pick appears poised to squeak through confirmation process
Republicans grill Jack Lew over having helped negotiate Iran deal but acknowledge that they don’t have the votes to stop his approval and that delaying it would be futile
By Jacob Magid and AP
File: Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, the Biden administration's pick for US ambassador to Israel, speaks during the discussion panel at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting at IMF headquarters in Washington, October 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
October 18, 2023, 4:08 pm
Jack Lew, US ex-treasury secretary and Israel envoy pick, to face Senate hearing
Obama chief of staff tapped to replace Tom Nides, with US-Israel ties crucial amid Hamas’s devastating onslaught and resulting war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks during the US-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) meeting at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on June 18, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2023, 3:59 pm
Jack Lew, US ex-treasury secretary and Obama chief of staff, tapped as Israel envoy
A top US official says willingness to face confirmation process, which GOP will use as pre-election referendum on Biden’s Israel policies, shows how important issue is to president
By Jacob Magid
Christian worshippers take part in the Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during the Easter holiday on April 15, 2023 (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 16, 2023, 1:40 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 16: US envoy news; Holy Sepulchre renovation yields a trove
US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the frontrunner for US ambassador and Democrats on Biden’s Israel plans; feature writer Melanie Lidman on finds at Jerusalem church
By ToI Staff
Former US treasury secretary Jack Lew speaks at the panel "Reforming the Euro Area: Views from inside and outside of Europe," during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, in Washington, April 19, 2018. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
August 13, 2023, 6:34 pm
Former treasury secretary Jack Lew frontrunner for next US ambassador
An Orthodox Jew, ex-Obama chief of staff has extensive ties to Israel, has been critical of Netanyahu
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, left, and Deputy Ambassador Stephanie Hallett in a photograph posted on July 21, 2023. (US Embassy in Israel)
July 21, 2023, 5:25 pm
Career diplomat Stephanie Hallett now interim US embassy chief as Nides departs
‘She’s as good as it gets,’ says ambassador who leaves deputy in charge in Jerusalem at a time of heightened tension between the Netanyahu and Biden governments
By Jacob Magid
Opponents of the government's judicial overhaul plans protest outside Justice Minister Yariv Levin's home in Modiin, June 27, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
June 27, 2023, 10:52 pm
US envoy predicts Netanyahu won’t advance entire overhaul due to ‘dramatic’ reaction
Tom Nides says judicial reform was not PM’s main objective when he returned to power; says Biden directed his senior aides to try and secure a Saudi normalization deal
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides speaks at an event in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 9, 2023, 2:20 pm
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides set to depart his post this summer
Envoy said to be looking to spend more time with his family, after two years in the job under three Israeli prime ministers
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
The home of US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides sits between two taller buildings on the main road of the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
June 24, 2022, 5:00 pm
After seaside digs dumped by Trump, US ambassador roosts at Jerusalem rental instead
2017 decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and sell the longtime ambassadorial residence led Tom Nides on a hunt for a suitable property in the capital
By Laurie Kellman
Israeli police accompany a group of Jews touring the Temple Mount on May 5, 2022, as the Jerusalem holy site is reopened to non-Muslim visitors. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 24, 2022, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing May 24: Flags and prayer in the Old City; US envoy finds a home
Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman on Jerusalem tensions to come; US correspondent Jacob Magid looks at Democratic primaries, ex-terror group Kach and US ambassador’s new house
By ToI Staff
Thomas Nides at a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 4, 2012. (AP/Anjum Naveed)
November 4, 2021, 3:15 am
After delay, Senate confirms Biden nominee Nides as ambassador to Israel
Day after blocking Democrats from fast-tracking diplomat-turned-banker’s nomination, Republicans forgo their objections, allowing Nides to be confirmed via voice vote
By Jacob Magid
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