U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been his friend for 39 years and that President Barack Obama has met with him for a dozen years.

American Jew Robert Lefkowitz has been awarded a coveted Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry along with his fellow American Brian Kobilka. Their research into how cell respond to stimuli is likely to lead to improved methods of tackling cancer and diabetes.

A US lawmaker called Wednesday for a boycott of public transit systems in Washington and other cities running a pro-Israel advertisement that denounces "the savage" in Muslim countries.

Palestinians have not been impressed by a speech delivered by US presidential candidate Mitt Romney in which he detailed his foreign policy. In his address at the Virginia Military Institute Romney said that only a new president could restart the stalled Middle East peace process and blamed President Barack Obama for causing "a series of heated disputes at the United Nations".

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized his Democratic rival President Barack Obama's "weak foreign policy," accusing him of  seeking to distance the United States from Israel and saying he would do everything to facilitate military aid to Syrian rebels.

A new poll carried out on behalf of American NGO The Foreign Policy Initiative has found that 70% of Americans view Israel favourably. 

The U.S. has warned European governments against supporting a Palestinian bid for enhanced status at the UN, saying such a move "would be extremely counterproductive," and threatening "significant negative consequences" for the PA, including financial sanctions.

In the ongoing contest between US president Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to win over Jewish voters, recent opinion polls have shown a small yet significant boost in popularity for the incumbent.

Mitt Romney told donors the Palestinians "have no interest whatsoever" in peace with Israel and if elected president he would just kick the issue down the road, a leaked video showed Tuesday.

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports that Israel’s foreign ministry had for several months been warning the United States about potential attacks on its embassies and consulates by radical Islamists.