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 Anne Frank Foundation Will Funnel Its Grants To New Israel Fund
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the not-for-profit established by Anne Frank’s father announced it would send all its grant money to Israel via the New Israel Fund, the Times of Israel reported. The move was seen as a retort to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who earlier this month blamed the NIF for destroying the…
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Fast Forward Putin, Netanyahu Warn Each Other About Consequences In Syria
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a phone call, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned each other about the repercussions of actions related to Iran’s presence in Syria. “Upon an initiative of the Israeli side, a telephone conversation took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Sputnik,…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Use And Abuse Of American Jews: A Review of ‘Bibi’ By Anshel Pfeffer
BIBI: THE TURBULENT LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU By Anshel Pfeffer Basic Books, 432 pages, $32 Early in “Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu,” Anshel Pfeffer’s excellent biography of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the author quotes an anecdote that Netanyahu likes to share. It’s about the time a mob…
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Opinion Embracing Anti-Semitic Hungarian Leader, Netanyahu Betrays Zionism
In October 1999, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) won over 27% of the national vote in parliamentary elections and shortly thereafter entered a governing coalition for the first time. I lived at the time as a visibly Hasidic Jew in Vienna and recall the xenophobic campaign that featured billboards with texts such as, “We…
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Fast Forward Why Netanyahu Is Blaming The New Israel Fund For Israel’s Migrant Crisis
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s been a busy, confounding week for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the question of the African migrants. On Monday afternoon, after months of threats to deport the lot of them, Netanyahu said he reached an agreement with the United Nations that would have resettled half of the 38,000 African…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Officially Kills African Immigrant Deal That He Just Signed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially cancelled an agreement made with the United Nations that would have relocated thousands of African asylum seekers to Western countries. The cancellation on Tuesday afternoon came a day after the agreement was first announced and hours after the prime minister said he would freeze the agreement in order…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Backtracks On African Immigrant Plan Amid Right-Wing Fury
Updated 6:45 p.m. Only hours after the Israeli government reached an agreement with the United Nations over its plan to deport thousands of African asylum-seekers while allowing thousands more to stay, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Facebook that the plan was being suspended. Netanyahu wrote that he would be meeting on Tuesday morning with…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Flip-Flop On Protecting Refugees Is Spineless And Shameful
Just when the Israeli government was about to do the right thing, its prime minister today turned into a spineless and inept politician, more interested in appeasing an extreme section of his domestic base than in leading with moral clarity and consistency. That’s the only way I can view the seesawing behavior of Benjamin Netanyahu…
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