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 Donald Trump Slams Bibi for Criticizing His Muslim Plan
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said it was “inappropriate” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn his plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States. “He modestly condemned them, and I thought it was sort of inappropriate that he condemned them, but that’s OK. He wanted to condemn them, that’s what he does….
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Friendly’ Dog Sent to Pound After Hanukkah Chomp
Veterinary authorities quarantined the family dog of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after she bit a lawmaker at a Hanukkah reception. The dog, Kaia, was placed in quarantine Thursday as per health ministry regulations after she bit Sharren Haskel, a Likud member of the Knesset, and another person the previous day at the Prime Minister’s…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Scraps Israel Trip Amid Muslim Controversy
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has postponed his trip to Israel amid a controversy over comments about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the United States. Trump announced the decision in a post on his Twitter feed Thursday and said he would plan to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “at a later date after I…
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Fast Forward Ouch! Bibi’s Adopted Rescue Dog Bites 2 at Menorah Lighting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently adopted dog Kaiya has sunk her teeth into her new position, biting two visitors at an event on Wednesday, including the husband of the deputy foreign minister. At a candle-lighting ceremony to mark the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the 10-year-old mixed breed also took a snip at a member of…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Set for Bibi Meeting as Controversy Swirls
Israeli politicians of all persuasions called on Wednesday for a planned visit by U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to be blocked over his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, which has raised an international outcry. [ID: ] A government official, however, confirmed that a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Bibi Rejects Harsh U.S. Criticism in Surprise Saban Forum Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and rejected U.S. warnings that Israel was devolving toward a single state. The “root cause of the problem,” Netanyahu said in a video address Sunday to the annual Saban Forum, is that…
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Fast Forward Bibi Condemns Sweden for ‘Execution’ Claim on Palestinian Deaths
Israel condemned as “scandalous” on Sunday what it deemed was a suggestion by the Swedish foreign minister that its forces had unlawfully killed Palestinians involved in a surge of street violence, and warned of a diplomatic rupture with Stockholm. Addressing Swedish lawmakers on Friday, Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom denounced the almost daily Palestinian knife, gun…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu and Abbas Shake Hands at Paris Climate Summit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands at the United Nations climate change conference near Paris. The two leaders met and spoke after the group photo of the some 150 world leaders in attendance at the conference, which is being held at Le Bourget Airport just outside the French…
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