Khashoggi

Khashoggi, a longtime royal insider who had become a critic of the crown prince, was killed in October in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, prompting a global outcry.

A year of highlights and lowlights in Israel: American politics and Israel

Last week the kingdom announced the creation of three government bodies aimed at improving its intelligence operations.

Sources told the 'Wall Street Journal' that Saudi Arabia was considering investing $100 million USD in Israeli firms, but since the Khashoggi killing, the deal has been shelved.

Ahlam Tamimi is a brutal terrorist murderer who has killed and wounded American citizens.

Several revelations have impacted the Trump administration’s Middle East policies and naturally affect the administration’s work with Riyadh and Jerusalem.

Netanyahu said his policy has always been “to stop bad things when they are small. So we meet Iran head-on in Syria, and if we need to, will do whatever we need to do protect ourselves, as you would.”

Among this year’s honorees is Gerald Fischmann, a Jewish journalist who worked at Baltimore’s Capital Gazette newspaper.

The issue of declassifying intelligence assessments is also a hot one in Israel, particularly whenever the defense establishment is viewed as having underestimated a threat.

Nikki Haley, the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, told NBC News earlier that the administration needed to figure out a path forward with the Saudis.