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News The Long History Of Corruption In Israel
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that he planned to file charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The charges cannot officially go forward until a hearing where Netanyahu can contest the accusations, which might not happen until long after the April 9 elections. Netanyahu has denied the…
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Breaking News Netanyahu To Be Charged With Bribery, Fraud After Hearing
This is a developing story. Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced on Thursday his decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, pending a hearing. In Case 4000, Netanyahu is accused of providing regulatory concessions to Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Bezeq telecommunications, in…
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Fast Forward Another Staunch Zionist Power Broker Criticizes Bibi’s Kahanist Connection
The leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a centrist Jewish establishment group, warned over the weekend that the deal Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu brokered that will likely bring extremist followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane into the Israeli Knesset could hurt Israel’s image abroad. Malcolm Hoenlein, longtime executive vice president…
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Opinion Wake Up, American Jews: You’ve Enabled Israel’s Racism For Years.
Much like Donald Trump’s election, the merger between the right-wing settler Jewish Home party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit — encouraged and facilitated by Prime Minister Netanyahu — marks less a break with the status quo than its unmasking. There was once a time when even Likud members felt obligated to object to the Kahanists’…
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Opinion Netanyahu Just Saved Liberal Zionism
Last Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did the unthinkable and welcomed Jewish terrorists into his ruling coalition. Facing possible indictment for a series of corruption charges and a plausible threat to his premiership during a rapidly progressing election cycle, Netanyahu pressured the far right party Bayit Yehudi to join forces with Otzma Yehudit, the…
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Opinion If You Called Out The Women’s March Over Farrakhan, You Better Call Out Netanyahu
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already saddled with a reputation of being willing to do or say anything to keep his job as prime minister, took a step that stretched that reputation even further. In an effort to prevent right-wing votes in Israel’s April 9 election from going to waste, he brokered a…
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Fast Forward Two Centrist Israeli Parties Merge, Posing Threat To Netanyahu’s Reelection
A merger between two top-polling centrist parties is posing a major challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ten-year hold on the office, the Times of Israel reported. After talks that lasted through the night, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz agreed that their two parties — Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience, respectively — would merge…
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Israel News Major Jewish Groups Mum On Netanyahu’s Deal With Extremist Party
As liberal and progressive Jewish groups assailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deal to return supporters of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli Knesset, most leading American Jewish groups are keeping silent. Nine major Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America, did not respond to questions…
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