Author: Alex Traiman
Alex Traiman
Alex Traiman is the CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) and host of “Jerusalem Minute.” A seasoned Israeli journalist, documentary filmmaker and startup consultant, he is an expert on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. He has interviewed top political figures, including Israeli leaders, U.S. senators and national security officials with insights featured on major networks like BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, Fox and Newsmax. A former NCAA champion fencer and Yeshiva University Sports Hall of Fame member, he made aliyah in 2004, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is en route to the White House for his seventh meeting in the United States with U.S. President Donald Trump, barely six weeks after their previous meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Each meeting has carried unique significance in Israel’s two-year-plus regional war against Iran and its network of terror proxies. The background Previous meetings proved key in helping Israel secure the necessary weaponry and diplomatic backing to sustain more than two years of complex fighting against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. It also included a major campaign…
The indicators are there, though military action takes foresight, timing and precision because success must be the result—once the definition of success is made by governments and their armed forces.