Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in a historic process aimed at bringing Israel’s activist Supreme Court in line with the judicial...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again called for broad agreement on his government’s plans in an address to the nation following the unilateral passing of key judicial reform legislation. On Monday afternoon, all 64 members of Netanyahu’s...

The same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital after pacemaker surgery, the Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition’s judicial reform legislation on Monday. The law bars judges from using...

The Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition's judicial reform legislation into law on Monday. All 64 members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a procedure to...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from the hospital on Monday morning after undergoing a procedure for the implantation of a cardiac pacemaker. The surgery was performed overnight Saturday at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1683099490708774913 His...

Netanyahu even accommodated Biden by approving measures to bolster the Palestinian Authority—despite his government comprising hardliners like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. That step, too, was not reciprocated by...

It is a common refrain in U.S. President Joe Biden’s speeches and statements and at State Department press briefings that Israel is threatening its democratic character by seeking to reform its judiciary, which legal...

Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, agreed on Thursday to hear a petition calling for the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the premiership due to an alleged violation...

Former Israel Police chief Roni Alsheikh said on Wednesday that he expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after being indicted on corruption charges in 2019. “No one could have guessed that the prime minister would not...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pay his first visit to China in six years. Netanyahu’s office is in advanced talks with the office of Chinese President Xi Jinping to coordinate the Beijing trip, where he is expected...