The Senate has confirmed Jack Lew as U.S. ambassador to Israel—at a time when the Jewish state is under fire by the terrorist group Hamas like never before.
The Senate confirmed the former Treasury secretary, 53–43.
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Senate Confirms Jack Lew as US Ambassador to Israel
‘I will work to root out payments to terrorists and their families as rewards for their heinous crimes,’ Lew testifies.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew leads a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the Treasury Department in Washington on April 13, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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