This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Community What Should We Make Of Netanyahu’s Upcoming Visit To Latin America ?
Relations between Latin America and Israel are about to get an important boost. For the first time since the founding of the Jewish state in May 1948, its sitting prime minister will visit the region. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicks off his long-planned tour of Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. The goal of this…
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Fast Forward Bibi: I Speak To Sheldon Adelson On Average 0.75 Times A Week
Responding to criticism that he had maintained an open line with the heads of Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he talked to owner Sheldon Adelson “.75 times a week.” Adelson, a Las Vegas casino magnate and Republican mega-donor, also owns Israel Hayom, a daily newspaper usually viewed as supportive of Netanyahu….
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows Israeli Settlements Are Here ‘Forever’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will not evacuate any more settlements, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged. “We are here to stay, forever,” the prime minister said at an event in the northern West Bank settlement of Barkan, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Israel’s settlement of the West Bank. “There will be no more uprooting of settlements…
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Fast Forward Trump, Netanyahu To Meet At United Nations Next Month
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet on September 17 in New Jersey, an Israeli newspaper is reporting. It will be the third face-to-face meeting between the leaders this year. The meeting will take place while Netanyahu is in New York for the opening of the 72nd…
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Opinion Netanyahu Is Abandoning American Jews — Because He Can
Several days after the First Zionist Congress concluded in 1897, Theodor Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, assessed its effect in his diary. “At Basel, I founded the Jewish State,” he wrote, referring to the Swiss site of the meeting. “If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps…
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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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