Us aid to israel

Editor's Notes: Israel-US alliance after the aid is gone must become a partnership, not an MoU

Israel should stop talking like a needy recipient. America should stop pretending this is philanthropy. Both governments have decided the aid era is over, and that something new must come next.

US President Barack Obama (C-R), escorted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L), view battery of Iron Dome, short-range missile defence system during a welcome ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv.
People walk past a projection depicting Israeli and US flags on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on Oct. 22, 2025.

Israel doesn't need unconditional US support to be confident in its own strength - analysis

A VISITOR holds an AIPAC folder in an elevator in Rayburn House Office Building on March 12, 2024 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

AIPAC targeting US congressional candidates who want to condition aid to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met recently with US Senator (R-SC) Lindsey Graham in Jerusalem. It is likely they discussed the issue of US aid to Israel.

Netanyahu doesn’t want to give up US aid, but he has no choice - opinion


Netanyahu slams criticism of record US aid deal to Israel as ‘ingratitude’

"We should all welcome it and express our appreciation to the United States,” PM says of $38 billion military aid package singed last week between the two nations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Liberman heads to US amid aid talks crisis

Netanyahu: More than anything we need to be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

Liberman and Eisenkot at IDF Southern Command

How the 2016 US election is upending pro-Israel orthodoxies

Welcome to the 2016 presidential election, when the conventional pro-Israel wisdom has been turned upside down.

Trump and Sanders

Reported details emerge on aid package to Israel from Obama administration

Although the package will include more money, Israel will have to forfeit annual Congressional “plus-ups” to the president's annual budget except in extreme emergency cases.

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ya'alon stresses importance of US-Israeli bond to visiting US Deputy Defense Secretary

Defense Minister meets with Bob Work in Tel Aviv; later tells Israel Radio: Iran remains a threat after nuclear deal.

Ya'alon with US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Robert Work

President Obama's 'two-state solution'

Ritual incantations as foreign policy - after Palestinian statehood, strategic circumstances in the region could become markedly less favorable to Israel and the United States.

An Islamic jihad terrorist

LAWFARE AGAINST IRAN

While Iran demands a rehearing of a $1.75 billion payout to Beirut bombing victims, families say they won’t give up the legal fight against Tehran.

Lynn Derbyshire holds a photo of her brother, Vincent Smith, killed in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.

Most Iron Dome funding goes to US contractors

US contractors will be receiving more than half of the $176 million allocated by Congress to Israel for the project.

Iron Dome battery 370

Top US general to visit Israel, Ya'alon amid strategy spats

US Gen. Dempsey to meet Ya'alon after the Defense Minister's controversial remarks regarding US foreign policy offended the US for the second time.

Moshe Yaalon with Hagel on plane 370

US General proposes Israel defend Jordan, Egypt with anti-missile system

Chief defense attache for US Embassy made suggestion, head of the Israel Missile Defense Organization 'open to the idea.'

Iron Dome command center 370