This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Opinion Tzipi Livni Walks Into a Trap
It is not at all uncommon for appetite to displace sound judgment. Think about over-eating: Your diet will keep until tomorrow. Or think about the questions you might have asked if you hadn’t been quite so hungry — and flattered — by the job you were just offered. Last week’s case in point: Tzipi Livni,…
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Israel News Tensions Threaten To Complicate Obama’s Middle East Listening Tour
A presidential trip designed as little more than a polite visit aimed at strengthening relations — while avoiding thorny issues — could be forced to face unexpectedly tough and substantive questions as conditions on the ground in Israel and the West Bank change rapidly. Palestinian unrest in the occupied West Bank and an unresolved post-election…
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Culture Netanyahu Sets Meeting With Peres To Request Extension in Forming Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Shimon Peres to request an extension in forming a government. Their meeting was scheduled for Saturday night at the end of Shabbat, which is the deadline for forming a government. Under law, Netanyahu can request an up to two-week extension, which Peres already has said he…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Wants World To Issue New Military Threat on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community on Wednesday to threaten Iran with “military sanctions”, saying economic measures are failing to curb Tehran’s nuclear drive. “I believe it is incumbent upon the international community to intensify the sanctions and clarify that if Iran continues its programme, there will be military sanctions,” Netanyahu said….
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Opinion Labor’s Turn To Play Ball With Bibi?
The official deadline on Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition building falls this weekend, but with just one faction on board apart from his own — the six-seat Tzipi Livni Party — he is still short of the Knesset majority he needs. Only 37 of the Knesset’s 120 seats are in the bag, meaning that another 24 are…
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News No Bibi, No Obama, No Peace Talk as AIPAC Prepares for Low-Key Conference
Next week’s annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington may be as notable for what — and who — is missing as what’s planned. For the first time in at least seven years, neither the U.S. president nor the Israeli prime minister will attend. In addition, no mention of the Palestinians, negative or positive, appears on…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Overplayed Hand in Talks With Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett
It could have been easy. January 22 was not a good day for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it could have been far worse. The 2013 parliamentary elections meant that for the first time in his long political career, he would be leading the largest party in the Knesset. Though his joint Likud-Beitenu list…
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Israel News Despite Election Spotlight, Netanyahu May Resist Change in Haredi Draft Exemption
Israel’s recent election was dominated by discusion of how to integrate ultra-Orthodox young men into the military. But Israelis are now facing up to the possibility that in practical terms, nothing will change on this front during the new Knesset session. In the months leading up to the election, as calls grew for an end…
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