This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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News Black Bar Mitzvahs, Veep Debate, Israel Votes
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Israeli correspondent Nathan Jeffay to discuss why Benjamin Netanyahu has called for early elections and who might challenge him. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner gives her impressions of the vice presidential debate. Finally, Forward fellow Seth Berkman and Eli Valley drop some knowledge on the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Denies Agreeing to Golan Withdrawal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a newspaper report on Friday that said he had agreed in principle to hand back land annexed from Syria as part of secret U.S.-mediated peace talks that broke off last year. Syria has long set a complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights as a condition for making peace with…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Agreed To Return Golan: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to give back the Golan Heights to Syria in 2010, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The daily quotes unnamed American sources as saying that in 2010 “Netanyahu agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan, to the shores of Lake Kinneret, in exchange for a peace agreement…
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Fast Forward Bibi Raises 96% of Cash From Overseas
More than half of all donations made to Israeli politicians’ campaigns over the past two years came from overseas contributors. Donations to political campaigns by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during that period amounted to $311,000, with 96.8 percent coming from outside Israel, according to Haaretz in a front page report on Friday. The paper wrote…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Spar on Iran, Israel
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan clashed over Iran’s nuclear program and U.S. relations with Israel during their televised debate. Ryan assailed President Obama’s approach to the issue in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The Wisconsin congressman accused administration officials of sending “mixed…
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Fast Forward Israel Elections Set for Jan. 22
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that national elections will be held on Jan. 22. The date was released Thursday by the Prime Minister’s Office, as it appears on the draft of the bill that would dissolve the current Knesset. The elections for the 19th Knesset will be held about one year earlier than they…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blames Hezbollah for Drone Incursion
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday a drone aircraft, which flew some 35 miles (55 km) into Israel before being shot down last weekend, was sent by Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. In a statement from his office, Netanyahu said during a tour of the southern frontier with Egypt that Israel would “act with…
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Fast Forward Israel Lawmaker Seeks To Block Olmert Run
Likud Party lawmaker Tzipi Hotovely reportedly petitioned Israel’s Central Elections Committee to prevent former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from running for office. Israel’s Army Radio reported that Hotovely asked committee chair Elyakim Rubinstein, a Supreme Court justice and former attorney general, to disqualify Olmert, the former leader of the centrist Kadima Party, from contending in…
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