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’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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News Disenchanted Jewish Voters, Eli Valley’s Science Experiment
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Nathan Guttman to talk about their interviews with Jewish voters in swing states and the prevailing sense of disenchantment with the presidential election. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by with a few words for undecided voters. Finally, Eli Valley calls in to discuss his…
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Opinion Bibi-Liberman End Run vs. 2 States: The Odds
Israel’s political map is about to upended when Netanyahu and Liberman go on television at 2 p.m. Eastern time to announce a joint Knesset run. They’re apparently not merging their parties but forming a joint list. The aim is to ensure that Bibi ends up with the largest Knesset bloc after the January 22 elections,…
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Opinion Bibi’s Brazen Defiance
With brazen defiance, just a day before he is due to meet with the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went over the Green Line and defended building there. “United Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital, we have a full right to build in it,” he declared today…
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Fast Forward Snubbing Europe, Netanyahu Tours Settlement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the Israeli settlement of Gilo on Tuesday in a defiant prelude to talks with the European Union’s top diplomat, who has condemned Gilo’s expansion. Israel issued a detailed plan last week for 797 additional homes in Gilo, an urban complex built in a part of the occupied…
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