Vera Bergengruen

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Vera Bergengruen |Santiago Pérez

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s prison director was sanctioned by the U.S. for secret dealings with MS-13 leadersPresident Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for secretly negotiating with the same criminal groups.

2 weeks ago | cn.wsj.com | Anat Peled |Vera Bergengruen

在亲友眼中，他们是致力于推动和平的人。男方正准备带女友前往耶路撒冷与父母初次见面，并计划在这次旅行中向女友求婚。在被枪杀的前一天，亚伦·利辛斯基(Yaron Lischinsky)还在因飞往以色列的航班被取消而与一家航空公司通话，焦急地寻找替代选择。他在华盛顿一场政策会议的礼堂外告诉朋友，他即将带女友前往耶路撒冷与父母初次见面，并计划在这次旅行中向女友求婚。这位30岁的以色列大使馆工作人员兴奋地对友人侯赛因·阿布巴克尔·曼苏尔(Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)说：“我打算就在那里求婚。”曼苏尔周四接受了《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)的采访。利辛斯基的女友、26岁的莎拉·米尔格里姆(Sarah Milgrim)也在大使馆工作。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8订阅

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Anat Peled |Vera Bergengruen

The young professionals were known to those close to them as devoted to peace effortsThe day before he was killed, Yaron Lischinsky was on the phone with an airline, anxiously searching for alternatives for a canceled flight to Israel. Standing outside the auditorium hall of a policy conference in Washington, he confided to a friend that he was taking his girlfriend to meet his parents for the first time in Jerusalem—and that he planned to propose on the trip.

2 weeks ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Patricia Garip |Vera Bergengruen |Shelby Holliday |Giulia Petroni

Quotes of the Day:“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written.  And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Patricia Garip |Vera Bergengruen

Caracas wants the U.S. president to allow oil companies to stay in the country. Nine Americans remain detained. Venezuela released an imprisoned U.S. Air Force veteran to American officials, people familiar with the negotiation said, a move Caracas hopes could improve bilateral relations and encourage the Trump administration to allow Western oil companies to continue operating.