This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward reporter Paul Berger to discuss New York may ease restrictions on lawsuits stemming from decades-old cases of child sex abuse and, if the law passes, how it might bring justice for victims at Yeshiva University. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman reports…
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Opinion Ex-Mossad Chief: Time for a New Obama Peace Bid
Just about everybody who follows Israeli affairs with any seriousness these days agrees that the peace process is dead, that the two sides are too far apart for any deal and besides there’s nobody to talk to. The one big exception is the Israeli intelligence and defense establishment, which remains a stronghold of optimism that…
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Opinion Israel’s Left Is Missing Boat on Anti-Haredi Coalition Alliance
Although there has never been much sympathy for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community in any part of the country’s secular society, suddenly this has changed. As the prospects improve for a Netanyahu-Lapid-Bennett (or Likud-Yesh Atid-Habayit Hayehudi) coalition whose first project will making military service compulsory for the Haredi youth that has until now been exempt from it,…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Tells AIPAC That Obama Is Not ‘Bluffing’ on Iran Nuclear Threat
Vice President Joe Biden told America’s biggest pro-Israel lobbying organization on Monday that President Barack Obama is “not bluffing” about the United States’ determination to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “The president of the United States cannot and does not bluff. President Barack Obama is not bluffing,” he told the American Israel Public…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Plans To Ask Barack Obama To Free Jonathan Pollard During Israel Trip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ask President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard while Obama was in Israel. Netanyahu met Monday with Pollard’s wife, Esther, in advance of Obama’s visit scheduled for later this month. “The time has long since come for Jonathan to go free,” Netanyahu said, according to a statement…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Nuclear Talks Have Given Iran Time To Build Arsenal
Renewed international efforts to negotiate curbs on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme have backfired by giving it more time to work on building a bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks on the inconclusive Feb. 26-27 meeting between Iran and six world powers signalled impatience by Israel, which has threatened to launch…
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News AIPAC Offers Clues to Barack Obama as He Heads to Israel
As President Obama prepares for his trip to Israel, he can get a good sense of Israeli expectations by listening in to speeches and conversations at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference. There, the message is clear: The perceived nuclear threat from Iran and the turmoil in Syria and in other neighboring…
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News AIPAC Points To Diversity as Conference Opens
The many challenges facing Israel and its relations with the United States were not lost on participants of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual gathering in Washington. The 12,000 delegates at the policy conference, which kicked off on Sunday, were inundated with speeches, meetings and reading material talking about the need to maintain foreign…
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