“Israel Hayom” editor in chief Boaz Bismuth greeted israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night at the inaugural Israel Hayom Forum on U.S.-Israel relations in Jerusalem.
In his opening statements, Bismuth, who was the first foreign journalist to interview U.S. President Donald Trump after his election victory in 2016, hailed the president for “keeping every promise he has made” to the State of Israel.
The U.S.-Israeli alliance “has always transcended partisan lines,” Bismuth added, before welcoming Netanyahu to the stage.

The Department of Homeland Security projects that arrests of migrants along the southern border will fall 25% this month, a drop that authorities attribute to a Mexican crackdown on Central American migrants and the expansion of an experimental Trump administration program that requires asylum seekers to wait outside U.S. territory for their immigration court hearings.
U.S. authorities detained more than 144,000 migrants in May, the highest total since 2006. After President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican exports, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to deploy thousands of troops to intercept migrants, prevent illegal crossings from Mexico into the United States, and host more asylum seekers as they navigate the U.S. courts.

President Donald Trump’s decision Saturday to relax limits on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and to delay new tariffs on Chinese goods may revive stalled trade talks with Beijing, but it leaves negotiators confronting the same tough issues that derailed negotiations in early May.
Trump’s move – which came in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Japan – was welcomed by business groups that have been hurt by multiple rounds of tariffs on Chinese goods and feared greater damage if the president proceeded with plans to tax a further $300 billion in imports.

Yerushalayim, in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Economy, has earlier this week launched an accelerator program for charedi entrepreneurs looking to establish startup companies.
The goal of the six-month program is to bring projects from inception to fruition as operational startup companies. Twelve projects, five of which are led by women, were chosen for the program and will receive professional, technological, and business-oriented mentorship, assistance in finding funding opportunities, and help in establishing a professional network, according to a statement released by the city of Yerushalayim Monday.

The Palestinian Authority has arrested a Palestinian businessman who attended the US-led economic conference in Bahrain this week, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper and Kan public broadcaster reported on Saturday.
The businessman was identified as Salah Abu Miala from the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West Bank. Kan and Haaretz said he was arrested overnight between Friday and Saturday.
“Salah attended a wedding party for a family member yesterday and then he disappeared. We haven’t seen him since,” the man’s brother, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. He said that police forces had not shown up at Abu Miala’s home.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) detained four Palestinians armed with knives near the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip in two separate incidents early Saturday.
The army said that two of the Palestinians were caught carrying four knives and a set of bolt cutters close to the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip, after two others were nabbed overnight in the south of the enclave.
The IDF said that all four suspects were detained for questioning.
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Nearly two years after James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the avowed neo-Nazi and convicted murderer apologized in court Friday as a federal judge sentenced him to life in prison for 29 federal hate crimes.
“Every day I think about how things could have gone differently, and how I regret my actions,” he said in a packed courtroom here. “I am sorry.”

President Trump has claimed that Kim Jong Un is following him on Twitter – despite the social media platform being banned in North Korea.
The President made the claim after issuing a spontaneous invitation for Kim to meet him at the demilitarised zone (DMZ), which has separated the two Koreas since 1953 tweeting, “If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”
Shortly after his offer, a North Korea official called it a ‘very interesting suggestion’ but refused to confirm if a meeting would be on the cards. Trump later said he ‘got a call very quickly’ about the offer and claimed: ‘[Kim] follows me on Twitter’.
The two leaders have not met since their most recent summit broke down in February.

Leaders from the Group of 20 nations renewed their vow to take action to curb climate change Saturday, as United States once again stood apart and at odds with the rest of the world.
President Donald Trump – who at times appeared not to grasp the difference between global warming and air pollution – dismissed the worldwide push for climate action and denied that any aggressive response to curb the world’s greenhouse gas emissions was necessary.
“We have the cleanest water we have ever had. We have the cleanest air we’ve ever had, but I’m not willing to sacrifice the tremendous power of what we’ve built up over a long period of time and what I’ve enhanced and revived,” Trump told a news conference at the end of the two-day G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him in the Korean demilitarized zone when he visits the peninsula over the next two days, setting up a potential third summit, an offer a Kim aide called “very interesting.”
Trump made the offer in a morning tweet ahead of a second day of meetings at the Group of 20 summit here.
“After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon),” Trump wrote. “While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”