The initiative, three years in the making, hopes to unite Jewish people in Israel and the Diaspora.

Innovations like Trophy mean that tanks, APCs don't just fire; they also gather real-time intelligence on the enemy.

Through USAID, the US government has provided more than $4.9 billion in developmental assistance to Palestinian developmental projects in the past 22 years.

Litzman: Treasury proposals don’t meet public’s basic needs

“Israel has met our terms, paving the way to normalize ties,” he said. “Therefore, we must do this as soon as possible.”

The announced plans come just two weeks after President Gnassingbe’s brother-in-law, Marcel Alain de Souza, was in Israel and invited Netanyahu to a summit in Nigeria later this year.

Raisman, 22, is the U.S. squad’s captain and was a key part of its gold medal in the team competition two days earlier.

Eliot Lauer, a lawyer for Pollard, said he was disappointed with the ruling and said his attorneys were studying it.