This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Fast Forward El Al Flight Crew Instructed Not To Address Netanyahu Directly
On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, left for Germany, France and England. As always, El Al won the bid to fly them. The flight attendants were given a page of guidelines about how to comport themselves vis-a-vis the prime minister and his wife. A series of dos and don’ts. Among the don’ts, one…
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Community George Soros Is Not — And Has Never Been — A Nazi
The occupation of Hungary by the Nazis began by invitation in 1944. In his masterwork “Night,” set in his hometown of Sighet, Hungary (now Romania), Elie Wiesel wrote of Moshe the Beadle, who secretly mentored the young Wiesel in the Jewish mystical writings of the Zohar until Moshe was deported on cattle trains from the…
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Community Israel Has A Fake News Problem, Too
During an interview on the Knesset channel last week, Member of Knesset Bezalel Smotrich was asked to comment on a statement made by his party member, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who recently said she would be willing to welcome LGBT candidates to the party. Smotrich responded by saying that “fundamentally, a religious party can contain,…
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Fast Forward Sara Netanyahu Tried To Physically Attack Bibi’s Top Aide
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara tried to physically assault the director general of the Prime Minister’s Office in an altercation in January, forcing him to hold her off until another official separated them, sources in the office said. The director general, U.S.-born Eli Groner, denied that the scuffle took place. The sources said the…
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Fast Forward German Cartoonist Fired For ‘Anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu Caricature
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it had ended its decades-long collaboration with cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch after he depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using “anti-Semitic cliches.” Editor-in-chief Wolfgang Krach said publishing the cartoon, carried in the May 15 issue of the daily, was a mistake and he apologized to readers. Krach later said the cartoon…
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Opinion Guess What? Israel Doesn’t Care What American Jews Think.
This past week, the Trump administration inaugurated one of its signature foreign policy accomplishments: the official relocation of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was a striking moment, with the celebration coinciding with the killing of scores of protestors in Gaza. The embassy move and the withdrawal from the Iran Deal were…
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Fast Forward Is This German Cartoon Of Benjamin Netanyahu Anti-Semitic?
A cartoon featuring Benjamin Netanyahu holding a nuclear bomb at the Eurovision song contest has been dubbed anti-Semitic by critics, the Times of Israel reported. The cartoon, published in the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, is a riff on Israel’s recent win at Eurovision, which gives them the chance to host next year’s song contest. The…
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Opinion Trump Has Freed Progressive Democratic Senators To Finally Criticize Israel
The Forward has learned that on Friday night, thirteen Democratic Senators—including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the Trump administration “to do more to alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.” That may not sound particularly audacious. But according to J Street’s Vice President of…
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