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 Sends Condolences to Biden Over Son’s Death
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences to Vice President Joe Biden on the death of his son, Beau. Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware, died Sunday of brain cancer. He was 46. “Vice President Biden spoke many times to me about Beau over the years, we’ve known each other for many, many…
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Opinion How Bibi’s Rubik’s Cube Cabinet Creates Chaos — and Danger
Two weeks after his new cabinet was formally sworn in, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still juggling cabinet assignments as he struggles with the Rubik’s Cube of his fourth governing coalition. Newly appointed ministers have been furiously jockeying for position and influence, forcing the prime minister to carve up existing ministries and move sub-bureaus…
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Life Netanyahu’s Right-Wing Government is Sexist, Too
The traditional picture of the government ministers taken at the President’s Residence last week speaks for itself. Here they stand, our public servants, who (almost) never serve the public. Here they stood, our female ministers, alongside their male counterparts, a dash of color, like a decoration swallowed by a sea of dark suits. Although someone…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Tells Europe Envoy He Wants 2 States
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his commitment on Wednesday to a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after backtracking on that pledge during a heated campaign for a March election. Speaking as he met with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on her first visit to the region, and a week after his…
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Fast Forward Israel Coalition Scrapes By First Knesset Test
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emerging government scraped by its first parliamentary test on Wednesday, paving the way for the new cabinet to be sworn in after two months of difficult coalition building. By a narrow 61-59 vote, parliament ratified a legislative amendment allowing Netanyahu to increase the number of ministers he can appoint to…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu Still Feud — With Little Hope for Improvement
Obama administration officials have long contended that the friction between the U.S. president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not personal and that American support for Israel remains as robust as ever — and arguably even more robust by some metrics. But a year of tense and angry exchanges between President Barack Obama and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Proposal To Expand Government — and Save Netanyahu’s Coalition
Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal to expand the number of government ministers to more than the current 18. The decision was made by the outgoing Cabinet of the 33rd government of Israel and overturns a law passed during its term limiting the number of Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. Netanyahu reportedly plans to appoint 20…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu’s 1-Seat Coalition Could Be Doomed From Start
Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to find much comfort at home or abroad in his fourth term as prime minister after taking six weeks to form a coalition that will hold a parliamentary majority of just a single seat. Long at odds with Western allies over his views on the Palestinians and Iran, Netanyahu could be…
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