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News WATCH: Sara Netanyahu Warmly Greets Mahmoud Abbas at Shimon Peres Funeral
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged greetings with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas before the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres — but it was First Lady Sarah Netanyahu who dominated the encounter by inviting the Palestinian leader for a visit. It was the first time the men had shaken hands in over a year….
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Hopes To Keep His Dirty Laundry Secret — Literally
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want details of his dirty laundry aired in public – and he is suing his own office and Israel’s attorney general to try to prevent it. Legal documents published on Tuesday showed that the prime minister, citing a right to privacy, is asking a Jerusalem court to overturn a decision to release…
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News Why the Boos at Broadway’s Beloved ‘Hamilton’? Because Bibi.
Getting in to see “Hamilton” is hard enough. But on Saturday night, the ticket line turned into a security check at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Benjamin Netanyahu attended the Broadway hit. Visiting New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli premier detoured to Richard Rodgers Theater to see the famed musical,…
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Opinion Was Benjamin Netanyahu’s Meeting With Donald Trump Another Case of Electoral Meddling?
The day before the American presidential debate, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in New York, working his famous charm on the two major candidates. The prime minister regards handling Israel’s international relations as one of his strong suits. And indeed, after meeting Donald Trump Sunday morning and Hillary Clinton that afternoon, he was able…
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Fast Forward Clinton Backs Israel in Meeting With Benjamin Netanyahu — Trump Vows Jerusalem Embassy Move
(JTA) — Hillary Clinton said she opposed any U.N. Security Council bid to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just hours after a summit between the Israeli leader and Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s meetings with the Democratic nominee and, earlier Sunday, with her Republican rival were…
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News Trump Seizes on Pre-Debate Netanyahu Meeting to Revise His Record
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have wanted a low key-key rendezvous with Donald Trump September 25. The press, after all, was left standing outside the Trump Tower, but the Republican presidential candidate was aiming for as much attention as possible in his release of an unusually long and detailed press release. Natanyahu was using…
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Opinion How Obama’s Aid Package to Netanyahu Functions as a Rorschach Test for Jews
You can consider the unprecedented 10-year, $38 billion military aid package that the United States just signed with Israel by the numbers. It’s $3.8 billion a year. That’s $73,076,924 a week. Roughly $10,410,959 a day. Or you can consider it as a Rorschach test for the waning days of the tempestuous relationship between President Obama…
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Israel News Trump’s Shadow Looms Large Over Meeting Between Obama and Netanyahu
Given their long, tempestuous and mostly acrimonious relationship over the past seven-and-a-half years, Wednesday’s meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama, touted as their last, could have been a grand finale. At one extreme, the two leaders might have expressed their true emotions and undergone catharsis, bro-hugging and making up at the end, while at…
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