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 Benjamin Netanyahu Plans Russia Visit for Talks on Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Russia next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin on an expanding Russian military deployment in Syria, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. “The prime minister will present the threats to Israel emanating from the increased flow of advanced weaponry to the Syrian arena and from the transfer…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Tells Rabbis He Plans to Meet with Netanyahu
President Barack Obama told rabbis in a pre-Rosh Hashanah phone call that security talks with Israel had resumed and he hoped to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by early next month. On Thursday, in his annual pre-High Holidays call to the rabbis, Obama said that he was ready to meet with Netanyahu during…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Backs Controversial Lithuania Cemetery Construction
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his blessing to controversial construction planned atop a former Jewish cemetery in Lithuania, that country’s leader said. Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius spoke of Netanyahu’s consent for the planned renovation at the Concert and Sports Palace in central Vilnius in an interview Wednesday with the Baltic News Service. “He…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Protest Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit to Britain
Some 300 demonstrators waving flags and “Free Palestine” banners staged a noisy protest in central London on Wednesday against the two-day visit to Britain this week of Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. Minor scuffles with police broke out as they surged into the main road outside the Downing Street residence of British Prime Minister David…
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Fast Forward 100,000 Sign British Petition Demanding Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arrest
A petition calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Britain in September has reached more than 100,000 signatures and must be considered for debate in Parliament. The online petition was uploaded on Aug. 7 to the United Kingdom Parliament’s official website. “Under international law he should be arrested for…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel ‘Too Small’ To Absorb Syrian Refugees
Israel is “not indifferent to the human tragedy” of refugees from Syria and Africa, Benjamin Netanyahu said, but it is too small to absorb mass numbers of them. “We have already devotedly cared for approximately 1,000 wounded people from the fighting in Syria and we have helped them to rehabilitate their lives,” the Israeli prime…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton E-Mails Reveal Bibi Mind Games
(JTA) — As Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton spent plenty of time in daunting foreign territory. I’m speaking of the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu. A batch of emails released this week as part of the trove related to the controversy over Clinton’s use of a personal email address while serving as secretary of state…
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Opinion 5 Ways for Barack and Bibi To Get Along Better
(JTA) — Now that enactment of the Iran nuclear deal appears to be a sure thing, the profound and often personal disagreement between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran is not about to go away. In the contemplative spirit of the Days of Awe, we canvassed the experts to recommend…
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