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Israel News ‘New Likudniks’ Want To Push Netanyahu’s Party To The Center—Will They Succeed?
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under investigation for corruption, has often claimed that his left-wing political enemies are out to get him. Now his supporters have alleged that leftists are even infiltrating his right-wing Likud party. Last week, David Bitan, the chairman of the governing coalition and an unswerving Netanyahu ally,…
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Fast Forward Kushner Tells Netanyahu Trump Is Committed To Peace, But Shares Few Details
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – President Trump remains committed and optimistic about achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, his son-in-law and senior adviser told the sides on Thursday during his first visit to the region since last month’s surge of violence. But there was little to suggest any breakthrough or significant progress toward ending a decades-old conflict is imminent as…
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Fast Forward Reform Leaders: Netanyahu Must Denounce Kotel Body Searches Of Female Rabbis
(JTA) — Leaders of the Reform movement in the United States called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “issue a swift and clear denunciation” of the demeaning body searches of four female rabbinic students at the Western Wall. The students from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, on Wednesday were asked to lift…
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Fast Forward Bibi Accuses Press Of Ignoring ‘Under A Rock’ Condemnation Of Neo-Nazis — Which He Never Made
Taking a page from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the media for not reporting on his condemnation of racist events in Charlottesville, Virginia. And taking another page from Trump, Netanyahu misrepresented the media’s response. Netanyahu came under fire for his belated response to the events, which were laced with anti-Semitic themes, and…
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Fast Forward Israel May Act Alone To Stop Iranian Groups In Syria, Netanyahu Tells Putin
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Israel was prepared to act unilaterally to prevent an expanded Iranian military presence in Syria. Russia intervened in the civil war on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2015, joining a de facto alliance with Iranian forces…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Putin To Meet For Sixth Time In Russia
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet for the sixth time in two years. Netanyahu and Putin are scheduled to meet on Wednesday in the Russian city of Sochi, located on the Black Sea, the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement on Saturday night. The two…
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Israel News Netanyahu’s Son Won’t Stop Trolling People On Facebook
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Yair Netanyahu reportedly advises his father, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on how to use social media. But his own Facebook activity has repeatedly sparked controversy in Israel — and made headlines worldwide. Most recently, in the wee hours Wednesday, Yair Netanyahu, 26, weighed in on the violence at a white supremacist rally…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Condemns Charlottesville Violence — 3 Days Later
Three days after the deadly car attack by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his first condemnation. In an English-language tweet Netanyahu wrote: “Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred.” The Israeli prime minister seems to have waited to hear a clear condemnation from…
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