This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Israel News Israel Plans to Raise the Famed Altalena
One of the bitterest confrontations on record pitting Jew against Jew is soon to be dredged up ? quite literally. The Israeli government has given instructions for the raising of the Altalena, a Jewish ship on which the country?s prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, ordered his army to fire shortly after he declared independence, in 1948….
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Israel News Massive Housing Protests Shake Israel Government
Faced with thousands of young Israelis taking to the streets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new proposal to solve Israel’s housing crisis and, he hopes, stem a grassroots protest movement whose popularity has shaken his government. In a speech from his office July 26, Netanyahu announced that for the first time in Israeli…
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Opinion Knesset Outlaws Boycotts of Israel or Settlements
The Knesset gave final approval to the Boycott Bill after a stormy debate. Here is the Ynet.com report (in Hebrew). Here is the Jerusalem Post report (in English). The final vote was 47 to 38, according to the Haaretz.com report. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present for the debate or vote. Knesset speaker Reuven…
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Opinion Dinner With Livni
The Tzipi Livni who spoke before a small, private dinner on Wednesday evening in New York seemed more excitable, passionate and downright worried than she has been in these sort of settings. Barely had the guests invited by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace taken their seats when the leader of Israel’s…
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Opinion The Futility of Barring Flotilla Coverage
Never thought I would say this, but Benjamin Netanyahu just saved me from banging my head against the wall in desperate frustration. This morning brought news that Israel’s Government Press Office had warned media outlets that any foreign correspondent found aboard the flotilla about to set sail for Gaza would be “denied entry into the…
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The Schmooze White House Switchboard Swamped With Calls for Pollard’s Temporary Release
Supporters of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard jammed the White House’s switchboard over the weekend, demanding his temporary release so that he could attend his father’s funeral today. Morris Pollard died at the age of 95 in South Bend, Ind., on the morning of Saturday, June 18. Angry that President Obama did not heed requests to…
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The Schmooze Facebook Revolutions: The Great Israeli Cottage Cheese Boycott?
While the Arabs are organizing historic political uprisings on Facebook, Israelis are using the social networking website to protest the high price of cottage cheese. Fed up with the nearly NIS 8 price for a 250 g container of the popular dairy food (it accounts for 28% of all cheese sales in Israel), consumer groups…
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Opinion Backing Away from September
There are those who heard in Obama’s speech on the Middle East an attempt – as Mitt Romney elegantly put it – to throw Israel “under the bus” and those who thought it was just the same old steadfast support for Israeli positions that every American president expresses. Both sides, it’s clear, seem to only…
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