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 Named Likud Leader Absent a Primary Challenger
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was declared the leader of Likud after the party canceled its primary due to the lack of a challenger. The Feb. 23 vote was canceled Wednesday in response to a request by the party’s comptroller citing cost. Likud will save about $1 million by canceling the vote. Though Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Democrats Who Backed Iran Deal Meet With Bibi
A delegation of eight Democratic U.S. senators who backed the Iran nuclear deal met with Israeli leaders and discussed oversight of the deal. The trip last week included Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; Chris Coons of Delaware; Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota; Tim Kaine of Virginia; Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii;…
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Fast Forward 4 Times Obama and Netanyahu Worked Together That Frontline Skipped
There’s a lot of social media buzz about the nearly 2-hour documentary, “Netanyahu at War,” which chronicles Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career and then veers into his relationship with President Barack Obama. Allow me a mixed-generation metaphor — boomers and millennials — for my takeaway: The PBS documentary casts the Obama-Netanyahu relationship as a…
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Opinion ‘Netanyahu at War’ Takes Operatic View of Premier’s Rise — and Feud With Barack Obama
“Netanyahu at War,” the Frontline documentary airing on PBS stations Tuesday night, manages to walk a very narrow line with surprising success. Despite the fairly transparent liberal leanings of the filmmakers and most of their on-screen interviewees, the two-hour film presents a reasonably balanced, objective portrayal of the Israeli prime minister and his beliefs. It’s…
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Opinion What Benjamin Netanyahu Could Have Said After Tel Aviv Terror
The shattered glass windows had not yet been replaced. The scars of the bullet holes were still visible. Just a day earlier, on Friday afternoon, at that very spot, at the Simta Bar in central Tel Aviv, an Arab citizen of Israel had sprayed his automatic rifle into a crowded pub, killing two innocent young…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Will Remain “Forever” In Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs
Israel will remain “forever” in Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours after an Israeli man died of wounds sustained in an attack there. “I say to all those who would uproot us from the Tomb of the Patriarchs – except for a few years in the previous century, we have…
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Fast Forward Israel Government Won’t Pay Expenses for Netanyahu Dog
Israel won’t pay the expenses for the Netanyahu family dog. The Ministry of Finance rejected a query by the Prime Minister’s Office to have the state pay up for Kaia, the Israeli investigative television news program “Uvda,” or “Fact,” reported Monday night, saying the dog is a personal expense. Kaia, who is 10 years old,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says ‘No Comparison’ Between Jewish and Palestinian Terror
JERUSALEM — The group of right-wing extremists captured on a wedding video showing support for the suspected assailants in the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian family’s home “certainly does not represent religious Zionism,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. But at the beginning of Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also drew a distinction between Jewish and…
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