This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Accuses Abbas of ‘Blood Libel’ in EU Speech
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of spreading a blood libel in his address Thursday to the European Parliament in Brussels. In the speech, which earned a standing ovation from parliament representatives, Abbas alleged that Israeli rabbis called this week for the poisoning of Palestinian water, a medieval anti-Semitic libel…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Plans Diplomatic Pushback Against New Peace Moves
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Rome on Sunday to try to fend off pressure from the United States and Europe over his settlements policy and opposition to a French-led effort to forge peace with the Palestinians. Beginning three days of intense diplomacy, the right-wing premier will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
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Opinion 4 Men Who Want To Bring Down Benjamin Netanyahu — and the Tragic Reasons They Won’t
The headlines in Israel called it “the revolt of the generals.” Conservative commentators warned of a “military coup.” In the space of a single day, June 16, no fewer than four former heads of the Israel Defense Forces — there are six currently alive — declared war on the era of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu….
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Culture 5 (Jewish) Hairdos Bibi Could Have Had for Way Under $1,600
For $1,600, you can become the proud owner of an Apple laptop, a month’s lodging with three roommates and no windows in Manhattan or, if your name happens to be Benjamin Netanyahu, a fairly standard haircut. In light of the recent news about Netanyahu’s extravagant hair expenditures on his trip to New York, we thought…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says $40K Payment From French Fraud Suspect Was for ‘Public Diplomacy’
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged in a statement from his office that he received $40,000 from a French businessman on trial for fraud. The statement said that Netanyahu received $40,000 in 2001 from Arnaut Mimran, when Netanyahu was a private citizen and traveling for public diplomacy. Mimran last month told a Paris court,…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu Says He’ll Keep His Promise, Orders New Prayer Podium for Western Wall
The Israeli government will order a permanent bimah, the elevated platform on which a prayer leader stands, to be built in the southern section of the Western Wall holy site as a signal to American and Israeli non-Orthodox movements that it is serious about implementing its plan for an egalitarian prayer space there. The gesture…
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Fast Forward Wide Skepticism Over Benjamin Netanyahu’s Claim To Back Arab Peace Plan
Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a 14-year-old Arab peace plan in trying to project a softer image internationally for a new governing coalition in Israel widely seen as more hardline towards Palestinian statehood. In what some political commentators and opposition politicians called spin but a spokesman for Netanyahu dubbed “an important development,” the right-wing prime…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Government May Be Near Collapse, Report Says
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be on the verge of collapse, according to Israel’s Channel 10. In a report Friday night, the TV station quoted unnamed “party leaders” saying that Netanyahu’s surprise move to bring the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party into the coalition may be backfiring on him. In the past eight days, two ministers…
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