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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Ropes In Ultra-Orthodox Party for Coalition
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed up his first partners on Wednesday for a new coalition government, a lawmaker and spokeswoman said, putting him on course to lead a heavily right-leaning cabinet. The deals with the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party and centrist Kulanu give Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud control of 46 of parliament’s 120…
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Israel News President Obama Pokes Fun at Benjamin Netanyahu at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
At the gathering he jokingly called “a night when Washington celebrates itself,” President Barack Obama took light-hearted aim on Saturday at a range of political friends and foes, including the people running to succeed him. Obama’s comedy routine at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner included a zinger that combined a self-deprecating dig at his…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Praises Gaza War ‘Spirit’ on Israel Independence Day
In his Independence Day address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised troops’ fighting spirit in Gaza. Netanyahu’s praises came in the Hebrew-language version of a video released by his office at the start of Israel’s 67th Independence Day, which this year falls on April 23. The English-language version contains no such reference but celebrates the…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Snubbed by Israeli Leaders on Upcoming Trip
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected invitations to meet with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The invitations reportedly were declined after consulting with the Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council, Haaretz reported Monday. Carter, who reportedly will visit Israel in the coming weeks, has planned meetings with Israeli and Palestinian…
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Opinion On Iran, a Divide That Goes Beyond Bibi and Obama
In the mid-1990s, pundits noticed an incipient breakdown in the known world order. For centuries international affairs consisted of relationships among nation-states, in an arrangement dating back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Now, suddenly, it wasn’t working. The primary culprit was the rise of so-called nonstate actors — transnational entities capable of defying…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Asks for More Time To Break Coalition Logjam
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Reuven Rivlin to request an extension in forming a ruling government coalition. The two leaders are scheduled to meet on Monday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, the President’s Office said in a statement issued Sunday afternoon. Under Israeli law, the head of the party who…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Schumer and Bibi Make Time 100 List
Ruth Bader, Diane von Furstenberg, Benjamin Netanyahu and Jill Soloway What do Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jill Soloway and Ina Garten have in common? They’re all in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list. And they’re all Jewish. The tribe made quite a showing this year, with 16 spots in various categories. Our favorite…
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Opinion Divergent Views of the Holocaust Form Root of Tension With Israel
Once upon a time, decades before the embittered encounters of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, an Israeli prime minister decided to publicly humiliate an American president whom he deemed disloyal. The men in question were Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan, and the immediate cause of their confrontation in 1981 was Israel’s annexation of the Golan…
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