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 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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Opinion Did Israel Just Lose American Jews?
A lot of ink has been spilled in efforts to explain exactly why Israel and American Jewry are drifting apart. This past December, Israeli MK Naftali Bennett put forward his own analysis: “There’s a terrible problem of assimilation and growing indifference of Jews overseas both to their Jewishness and to Israel,” he said. “That is…
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Opinion Netanyahu Isn’t The Problem. He’s The Symptom.
On Wednesday, it was reported that in the midst of a tense election cycle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the right-wing Jewish Home Party to join with the Jewish Power Party, which is populated by followers of the racist, banned leader Meir Kahane. So important was this merger to Netanyahu that he cancelled a…
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Opinion Netanyahu Just Invited Israel’s Equivalent Of The KKK To Join The Government
The Israeli election cycle currently underway has been awash in anti-Arab racism for a while now. But things just got much, much worse. On Wednesday, Haaretz reported that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the Jewish Home Party to join another party, the “Jewish Power” party, which inherited its leaders and politics from the well-known…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Orchestrates Merger To Bring Extremists Into Knesset
The Israeli right-wing party Jewish Home merged on Wednesday with a small extremist party led by followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, all but guaranteeing Knesset seats for the extremists. Kahane’s party was banned from running in Israeli elections in 1988 for racism, then banned entirely in 1994 under anti-terrorism laws. Two Kahanist groups,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Grips Trump’s Hand In Massive Campaign Banner
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slapped a massive picture of himself shaking hands with President Trump on the side of a building in Tel Aviv. “Netanyahu. In Another League,” reads the poster, a campaign ad for Netanyahu’s Likud party. Versions of the image, in smaller format, have popped up elsewhere in Tel Aviv and…
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Fast Forward American Soldiers In Israel Get The Help They Really Need On ‘Errands Day’
Lone Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces were helped out and shown appreciation on Thursday for “Yom Siddurim,” or Personal Errands Day. Nefesh B’Nefesh and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces hosted the sixth annual event, in which several agencies help lone soldiers, someone without immediate family in Israel who enlists in the IDF, check…
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Fast Forward Ann Coulter: Why Isn’t Netanyahu On TV Supporting Trump?
Right-wing talking head Ann Coulter questioned why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t stand up for President Trump after the president’s prime-time address from the Oval Office, in which he tried to convince Congress to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “CNN’s John King wants to know why GOP governors aren’t rushing onto TV…
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Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
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Fast Forward Father and son suspects in Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack identified as Sajid and Naveed Akram by law enforcement
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