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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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Fast Forward 2nd Israeli Cabinet Minister Quits In Protest of Netanyahu Policies
Israel’s environmental protection minister resigned, citing the recent dismissal of former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and disagreements on policy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Avi Gabai, a member of the center-right Kulanu party, announced his resignation on Friday, a week after Yaalon following Netanyahu’s decision to replace him as defense minister with Avigdor Liberman of…
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Israel News Avigdor Lieberman’s Return to Israel Government Fails To Make Waves in Washington
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest political move has set off a role reversal in the United States and Israel. At home, where many tend to brace themselves against outside criticism, the commotion ignited by Netanyahu’s appointment of Avigdor Lieberman to defense minister has yet to subside. Prominent figures from left to right on the…
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Opinion Actually, Avigdor Lieberman Is Just What Israel Needs Right Now
Peaceniks may be up in arms about the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Israel’s next minister of defense, but the country’s enemies are worried — and rightly so. Yes, as the inevitable flurry of articles accompanying his appointment are sure to point out, Lieberman once said that Israel could bomb the Aswan dam in the…
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Fast Forward Far Right-Winger Avigdor Lieberman Joins Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defense minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday and issued assurances that the most right wing government in Israel’s history would act responsibly. Once Lieberman is sworn in, Netanyahu will have a government of 66 legislators, widening his current one-seat majority in the 120-member…
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