Yossi Verter (Haaretz)
By Yossi Verter (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Netanyahu is now more desperate and dangerous than ever before
As was expected, President Reuven Rivlin tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming Israel’s next government. On Monday evening, after the end of the consultations, the possibility was raised that Lapid and Bennett could jointly request that Rivlin postpone his decision until Wednesday. Lapid was the first to say no. Despite Netanyahu’s empty accusations and…
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News Israel took no official photos of Pollards’ arrival
Carried by Sheldon Adelson’s private jet, the American who spied for Israel Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther landed at Ben-Gurion Airport early Wednesday morning. They were greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cabinet secretary and acting Prime Minister’s Office Director General Tzahi Braverman and the office’s spokesperson Shir Cohen. Not present…
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News Will Israel’s 4th election in 2 years really be different? It’s possible.
At first glance, the early election into which Israel is being helplessly dragged, like a hostage in the clutches of a bank robber, is just more of the same. The fourth Knesset election in under four years. So what else is new? But there could be no greater mistake. This time it’s a whole new…
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Fast Forward El Al Flight Crew Instructed Not To Address Netanyahu Directly
On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, left for Germany, France and England. As always, El Al won the bid to fly them. The flight attendants were given a page of guidelines about how to comport themselves vis-a-vis the prime minister and his wife. A series of dos and don’ts. Among the don’ts, one…
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Opinion JeSuisBibi as Benjamin Netanyahu Jostles for Cameras
(Haaretz) — Just as you can sometimes identify Israeli tourists abroad by their loud voices, poor manners and gauche behavior, none of the hundreds of millions of people around the world who watched Sunday’s Paris rally on television had any problem locating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: smack in the middle of world leaders at the…
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Fast Forward 55% of Israelis Back Peace Deal With Palestinians
More than half of all Israelis would likely support any peace agreement Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted to a referendum, a poll carried out Wednesday found. The poll was conducted four days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement last Friday that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians would resume. Following that announcement, Netanyahu,…
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Fast Forward Unholy Alliances Grow in Israel Chief Rabbi Fight
Heading the agenda at the joint Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu faction’s weekly meeting was the election of Israel’s new chief rabbis, slated for next month (the election is carried out among a large group of rabbis and public representatives). Two private bills related to this issue will soon be submitted to the Knesset. The first attempts to…
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Fast Forward Haaretz Poll: Most Israelis See Obama as Fair, Friendly
U.S. President Barack Obama’s popularity may be declining in American public opinion, but a sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll conducted this week. The poll also found that most Israelis don’t believe politicians who call Obama anti-Semitic or hostile to Israel, or…
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