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 5 Reasons Benjamin Netanyahu Is Struggling To Build a Coalition
On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a landslide. His 30 Knesset seats were the largest tally for a single party in 13 years, and six more than his nearest opponent. (JTA) And his path to a coalition was clear: partner with the haredim, reconnect with three right-wing or center-right parties — all…
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Opinion As Coalition Deadline Nears, Bibi’s Choices Are All Bad
Benjamin Netanyahu has barely a day left to complete what looked like a slam-dunk a month ago and now seems almost impossible: assembling a governing coalition of parties that control a majority of the 120 seats in Israel’s parliament. If he doesn’t finish the job by midnight Wednesday (5:00 p.m. Eastern), Israel’s figurehead president Reuven…
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Opinion Clock Ticking on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Coalition Drive
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing against the clock to assemble a new governing coalition before his statutory deadline runs out on Wednesday and he’s forced to return his mandate to Israel’s figurehead president. By all reports, it’s going to be a cliffhanger. Of the five smaller parties he wants to recruit, two have…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Says No to Benjamin Netanyahu Coalition
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday he would not join the new coalition government being formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing disputes over legislation. The walkout by the far-right Lieberman raised the prospect that Netanyahu, whose conservative Likud party won the most votes in a March 17 election, may have to settle…
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Opinion How David Cameron Plans To Channel Bibi and Win Britain’s Election
If it emerges that a secretive campaign adviser to Britain’s Conservative Party spent a few weeks in Israel in February and March, no one will be very surprised. Whether or not such a person exists, one thing is very clear on the eve of next week’s U.K. parliamentary election: the successful reelection strategy used a…
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Fast Forward Susan Rice Expects New Israeli Coalition To Recommit to 2-State Solution
The Obama administration expects a commitment to the two-state solution from the next Israeli government and from the Palestinian Authority, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said. “President Obama has made clear that we need to take a hard look at our approach to the conflict, and that resolving it is in the national security interest…
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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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