David Friedman

NSO group names David Friedman chairman amid efforts to overcome US blacklist

Friedman notably served as Trump's ambassador to Israel during the president's first term.

NOVEMBER 10, 2025|ByASSAF GILEAD/GLOBES/TNS

BEN SHAPIRO at the Knesset in April, at a ceremony honoring Independence Day torch lighters.

WATCH: Ben Shapiro to ‘Post’: Trump has done extraordinary, historic work in peace deal

Ben Shapiro and David Friedman hailed Trump's peace deal with Hamas as historic for Israel ahead of his Knesset address.

OCTOBER 15, 2025|ByKESHET NEEV

Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, of the Sovereignty Movement, pictured during an activist tour in the West Bank, January 2023; illustrative.

Knesset hosts conference calling to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank

The ‘two-state illusion is dead,’ former US ambassador David Friedman said.

JULY 21, 2025|ByELIAV BREUER

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the Jewish federation's annual General Assembly in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018

Good for the Jews? Inside Christian Zionism: The rise of antisemitism

On the third episode of "Good for the Jews?" Yael Eckstein and Zvika Klein interview Ambassador David Friedman and Dean Michele Bachmann on the continued Christian support for Israel.

MAY 6, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Arts center in Golan Heights to be named for fmr. US ambassador David Friedman

The arts center is being named after Friedman to signify the importance of the Trump administration's recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli soldiers look towards Syria across the border from Mount Bental before a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights November 19, 2020.

Trump letter authorized Israeli sovereignty in West Bank - exclusive

Trump gave Netanyahu the green light to annex as long as he accepted a future Palestinian state, in contrast with the description in Kushner's book.

AUGUST 14, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV

US President Donald Trump meets with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in March.

Kushner: Trump admin threatened to allow sanctions if Israel annexed parts of West Bank

"[Benjamin Netanyahu] risked near-unanimous condemnation at the United Nations," wrote Kushner.

AUGUST 2, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after Trump's address at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

Israel shouldn't let the US dictate its final borders, Friedman says

Friedman urged Israelis not to abandon their sovereignty plans and to begin to prepare a national consensus for what its final borders should be based on US President Donald Trump's peace plan.

MAY 28, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is seen with former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman as they shoot their documentary.

Ambassador Friedman: on America’s biblical roots - speech

An abridged version of the Distinguished Rennert Lecture delivered by Ambassador David Friedman upon receipt of the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University

APRIL 20, 2022ByDAVID FRIEDMAN

Grapevine April 1, 2022: Reaching out to minorities

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MARCH 31, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

FROM LEFT: Yohanan Plesner, Reuven Rivlin, Joan and Irwin Jacobs.

David Friedman's book 'Sledgehammer' hits record sales in first week out

'Sledgehammer' tells the story of how the Abraham Accords came about from Friedman’s perspective. He takes readers into the Oval Office and through the Middle East.

FEBRUARY 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

How can a Jew be 'too' Jewish? - opinion

‘Word of my stubborn insistence on standing with our ally Israel had now circulated widely within the State Department,’ writes former ambassador David Friedman.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022BySTEWART WEISS