In light of the differences in approaches the US and Israel have on various issues, which could pose a challenge to their relations, Jake Sullivan's visit will serve as yet another opportunity to agree on “ground rules”. 

For the first time, the US has a Second Gentleman, and for reasons having nothing to do with his gender, it appears that Doug Emhoff is breaking new ground in a position that has previously received little attention from the nation’s political ruling class, news media and voters.

In a phone interview conducted from Tbilisi, Professor Giuli Alasania said her son, Mikheil Saakashvili, the imprisoned former president, is dying because the authorities have taken their revenge on him over his policies that brought Georgia closer to the West.

Is the wave of Muslim tourism that has recently been sweeping over Rachel’s Tomb an act of innocent faith or of deliberate provocation? The Palestinians, who in the past did view the site as that of the matriarch Rachel, now identify it with a Sufi saint, the first mu’azzin of Muhammad, and consequently as a mosque.