Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu
Musk and megachurch, rapture and reprise: Netanyahu’s dark speech to Congress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress was a strange animal: A pseudo-State of the Union merged with evangelical megachurch preaching and a military pep talk, with enough chest-thumping Americana to trigger a round of 'U.S.A.!'...
Efforts ‘taking place right now’ to secure release of hostages, Netanyahu tells US Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon delivered his fourth address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, in which he called for a decisive victory over the Hamas terror group and...
Number of Democrat legislators declare plans to skip Netanyahu’s address
Some Congress members announced their intent to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Wednesday afternoon in opposition to Israel’s war to dismantle Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Senators planning to skip the speech include Sens....
Netanyahu eulogizes Joe Lieberman at DC memorial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized Joe Lieberman as one of the Jewish people’s “most noble sons,” speaking during a memorial service for the Connecticut senator at the Washington Hebrew Congregation synagogue in the American capital on...
Easier for Netanyahu to amplify Israel’s messages in US election season, Erdan tells JNS
Addresses to joint sessions of the U.S. Congress are always high-profile speeches, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to share the Jewish state’s views and priorities with an even larger audience than...
US-Israel relations bigger than politics, says Jewish senator presiding over Netanyahu speech
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said on Wednesday that he agreed to preside over the joint session of Congress, during which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address lawmakers and the nation, to demonstrate his...
The Trump assassination attempt resonates in Israel
In the wake of the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the Israeli government’s Sunday cabinet meeting was dedicated to dangerous incitement by public officials against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that...
Biden COVID diagnosis could affect Netanyahu meeting
Wednesday’s announcement that U.S. President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 may force the rescheduling or cancellation of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly set for Monday.
Netanyahu is set to address a joint...
Netanyahu: Israel will defeat Hamas ‘neo-Nazi regime’ in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces is making significant progress towards the total destruction of Hamas’s “neo-Nazi regime” in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the opposition during a Knesset debate on Wednesday.
“If it were up to you—in the...
The attempt on Trump’s life is a warning to Israel
After the attempt on Donald Trump’s life and the sudden “discovery” of the incitement that led to it, the Israeli cabinet got a grim reminder of just how much worse the incitement against Prime...