The president’s re-election campaign launches the coalition after ex-Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew switched parties over his opposition to impeachment.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last week labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “racist” and said the U.S. policy must be “pro-Palestinian.”
Speaking at the Democratic debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Thursday night, Sanders said, “We must understand that right now in Israel we have leadership who has been indicted for bribery, who, in my view, is a racist.”
While Israel has a right to exist in peace and security, said Sanders, the United States must formulate “pro-Palestinian” policy that would create a “level playing field in terms of the Middle East.”
The Vermont senator noted that he was speaking as someone who had “lived in Israel” and was “proudly Jewish.”

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on if Democrats have any chance of stalling an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Caesarea, a town on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, was listed as one of the 50 best places to visit in 2020 by Travel + Leisure magazine.
The publication announced its annual list last week and described the town in north-central Israel, known for the Caesarea National Park, as “the happy marriage of antiquity and modernity.”
Travel + Leisure said sites worth visiting in Caesarea included the new King Herod Visitor’s Center, which is “named for the port’s founding monarch and built in the massive arched vaults that once stood beneath a temple, [and] displays recent archaeological finds, such as colorful mosaics and gold coins recovered from shipwrecks.”

A federal judge on Friday postponed sentencing for longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone by two weeks, to Feb. 20, after his attorneys said he needed more time to collect financial and other records needed for a sentencing advisory report.
The delay was ordered by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District of Columbia, after Stone’s attorneys said they are unable to meet probation officials’ deadlines for a financial disclosure statement, part of a background investigation used in federal sentencing to determine whether a person’s background may warrant a harsher or more lenient punishment.

Britain’s Prince Philip, the duke of Edinburgh, has been admitted to hospital as a “precautionary measure,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement Friday. The 98-year-old duke, who is married to Queen Elizabeth II, will undergo treatment for a preexisting condition on his doctor’s advice, the palace said.
Philip made the 115-mile journey from his residence in Sandringham, Norfolk, to London’s King Edward VII Hospital on Friday afternoon and is expected to be kept there for observation over the next few days. The duke is not believed to have been transported to the hospital by ambulance and entered the hospital on foot.

A prestigious private school in New York is being criticized for failing to address growing anti-Semitism on campus, reported Tablet magazine.
“The school has a problem saying the words ‘Jewish’ or ‘Jew,’ ” one Jewish parent of a student at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, N.Y., told the magazine. “And calling out hate against this community.”
Jewish parents traced back problems at Fieldston, which was founded by Jews, to the launch of its Affinity Group program in 2015, which organizes students by ethnicity and race from the third through fifth grades.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said on Friday she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories as soon as the court’s jurisdiction had been established.
The announcement opens the possibility of charges being filed against both Israelis and Palestinians.
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority welcomed the decision, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ICC had no jurisdiction to conduct such an probe.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said a preliminary examination into alleged war crimes, opened in 2015, had provided enough information to meet all criteria for opening an investigation.