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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows To ‘Legalize’ Illegal Settlements In Response To West Bank Terror
(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would look at ways to legalize thousands of illegal West Bank settlement homes in reaction to terrorist attacks. Netanyahu also told the Attorney General’s Office to look into approving 82 new housing units in Ofra, a settlement that saw a deadly terrorist attack this week. He also…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Spokesman Resigns After Sexual Misconduct Allegations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David Keyes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.S.-born foreign press spokesman, resigned Wednesday several months after allegations of sexual misconduct were reported in the U.S. and Israeli press. The accusations, made by a number of women, including then-New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar, dated back to Keyes’ time as a human rights…
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Opinion American Jews And Israelis No Longer Agree On What Anti-Semitism Is
Last week, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu shocked Jews worldwide when his office revealed it would be working with Hungary on a museum dedicated to Holocaust revisionism. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the museum will be curated by a woman whose magazine targeted the Hungarian Jewish community’s president, András Heisler, in an anti-Semitic…
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Community Could Benny Gantz Become The Next Prime Minister Of Israel?
Despite multiple corruption scandals, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retains significant public support and still has the best chance of any candidate to keep his position when the next Israeli elections roll around. But a new political player is rising in the polls: Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. Over…
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Opinion TIME’s Honor Of Brave Journalists Shows What Happens When Our Leaders Embrace Despots
As a journalist, especially as a Jewish journalist, I was gratified that TIME magazine chose to honor the members of our profession who have displayed extraordinary courage, even at the cost of their own lives, simply to do their jobs. “The Guardians” is how editor Ed Felsenthal described the group of journalists, alive and dead,…
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Community Less Than Half Of Jewish Israelis Want Netanyahu To Remain PM
According to the latest monthly update of the Peace Index of the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, just 46% of Jewish Israelis named current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as their preferred candidate for the next prime minister. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, followed…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Tried To Get Out A Story Attacking Naftali Bennett’s Wife
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince the owner of a popular news site to run a negative story about the wife of a political rival, according to a television report. Israel Television News reported that the prime minister called on Shaul Elovitch — at the time the owner of Walla News — to…
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Opinion Israel Keeps Covering For Its Anti-Semitic Friends — And Endangering Diaspora Jews
The Israeli government is collaborating with nationalist regimes in Eastern Europe to diminish the legacy of the Holocaust. Again. That is the gist of an exclusive report from Barak Ravid, a leading journalist in Israel, regarding a controversial planned museum in Hungary. Scoop: Israel negotiating with Hungary over controversial revisionist Holocaust museum – my story…
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