Israel News
Why Netanyahu was not on Biden’s first round of calls as president
It took Netanyahu only a couple of hours to tweet his congratulation to President Joe Biden after he declared victory against President Donald Trump on Nov. 7. It took another 10 days for Netanyahu to arrange a phone call with Biden. As of Monday, 13 days after Biden entered the Oval Office, a call between the two leaders has yet to take place.
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Cynical ploy or positive development? How liberal Zionists see Netanyahu’s courting of Arab voters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot more than his job to lose in Israel’s upcoming March 23 election, its fourth in less than two years.
Descendants of Holocaust perpetrators seek atonement in Israel
Their day-to-day work is helping to care for and educate severely disabled Israeli children and makes a powerful statement.
Israelis say ‘I do’ to virtual Utah marriages. The government says, ‘You don’t.’
A religious minister thwarts Israelis trying to marry via Utah
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Senior Israeli cabinet minister ‘optimistic’ about warm relations with Biden administration
Netanyahu confidant Tzahi Hanegbi welcomes a Biden administration
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Netanyahu’s parting gift to Trump — a new embassy plot — is an empty gesture
On the day President Donald Trump faced his second impeachment, he received a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: a tract of Jerusalem land.
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Experts dismiss Israeli drive to vaccinate world’s Holocaust survivors as political stunt
Critics blast plan to vaccinate all Holocaust survivors
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Growing numbers of Yom Kippur War veterans are seeking PTSD treatment
A growing number of 1973 veterans are seeking PTSD treatment
‘I’m considered a traitor.’ Orthodox Jewish Biden voters are feeling the heat
Some of the most moving conversations I have had recently were with voters who left their political home on the right, including Orthodox Jews, and voted for Joe Biden. Why did their stories make such an impression on me? Their reasons for rejecting Trump weren’t unusual. They eschewed his character, his policies, his populism and divisiveness, his cruelty towards the oppressed or weaker groups in America – just like most voters who rejected Trump.
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Israel in talks with Pfizer after it announces major progress on coronavirus vaccine
Although deals were struck with other producers, Pfizer could still meet Israel’s relatively small demand of 2 to 4 million vaccine doses.