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 and Hollande To Tour Toulouse School
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande will together visit the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a rabbi were murdered. “I am very proud to go tomorrow with you to Toulouse to give our common position against anti-Semitism, against extremism directed at Jews and non-Jews,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Olmert and Livni Discuss Anti-Bibi Bloc
Former leaders Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni announced on Wednesday they were discussing a partnership that could shake up Israeli politics and lead to a joint campaign to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a January election. Olmert, a centrist, was forced to quit as prime minister in 2008 over corruption charges of which he…
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Fast Forward U.S. Election Likely Won’t Shift Israel Policy
Most Israelis would be reassured if Mitt Romney won next week’s U.S. presidential election, feeling they had an unquestioning friend rather than a dispassionate critic in the White House. But any change would probably be a question of style over substance, analysts say, with a Republican administration expected to follow the path already laid out…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Calls for Return to Peace Talks
A TV personality-turned-politician whose centrist party could be a key player in Israel’s parliament after elections made a bid for right-wing voters on Tuesday with a call for Palestinians to accept some Israeli West Bank settlements. Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party gave his first speech on Israel’s relations…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Party OK’s Election Merger
Israel’s Likud Party reportedly voted overwhelmingly to approve merging its candidates list with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Likud members gathered Monday at a party convention in Tel Aviv to vote on the proposal floated last week by the Likud chairman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Liberman, the foreign minister. A…
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls Yitzhak Rabin Murder ‘Worst Crime’
The murder of Yitzhak Rabin was “one of the worst crimes of the new age,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “It certainly besmirches the annals of the state and of Zionism. It will be etched in Jewish history along with other traumatic events,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting, which opened with a…
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Israel News Israel’s Round-Up of African Immigrants Reversed
Israel’s heavily publicized plan to round up and imprison thousands of illegal immigrants from the Sudan, including many refugees from the Darfur conflict, has been scrapped — and now appears to have been little more than a stunt by a rogue minister. The state attorney revealed this week that the government never authorized Interior Minister…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s Hard Right Alliance Could Backfire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tie-up with far-right coalition partner Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could backfire by eroding their lead ahead of Israel’s Jan. 22 ballot, a poll said on Friday. The findings flew in the face of Netanyahu’s prediction that, by merging with his fiery rival for nationalist votes, he would muster a “big, cohesive…
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