Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman quit his campaign Jan. 16 and endorsed Mitt Romney for president.

Republican Jews had expressed reservations about some of Huntsman’s advisers, who in the past have been sharply critical of Israel. But the former Utah governor, like Romney, insisted that a central plank of his foreign policy would be the centrality of the U.S.-Israel alliance. — jta

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