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Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (center) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 23, 2019. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal

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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, just 26 hours before Gantz’s mandate to form a government will expire. Netanyahu...
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Feb. 2, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Dershowitz calls on Mandelblit to ‘do the right thing’ and drop charges against Netanyahu

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As Israel approaches what would be its third election in less than a year, many Israelis and international observers are questioning the sustainability of the country’s complicated parliamentary system. Yet at the heart of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press after a security cabinet meeting following the escalation of violence in with the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Gantz’s plan to form minority government with Arab parties is ‘madness’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers during an emergency conference call on Saturday that the Blue and White Party intends to form a minority government supported by the Arab parties, something he...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz and Israel Beitenu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for negotiations towards building a new government, at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on Nov. 14, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli party leaders lament stalling of movement towards government coalition

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With a tenuous ceasefire taking hold across southern Israel, politics has again returned to center stage. With Israel and its legislators analyzing the fallout from two days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Christian Media Summit at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem on Nov. 3, 2019. Photo: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom.

Did Netanyahu purposely precipitate a Gaza crisis?

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I’ve kept silent for some time while the politicians are trying to avoid yet another general election in Israel by forming a government. As Avigdor Liberman, the head of the “Russian” Yisrael Beiteinu  party, refuses...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony in the Knesset marking 24 years since the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on Nov. 10, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

National unity government is ‘still possible,’ says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed confidence on Monday that it was still possible to achieve a “robust” unity government, saying there was no need for the country to go back to elections. “The worst...
Shas Party chairman and Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at a ceremony marking six years to the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews, at the Knesset the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 4, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?

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Israel’s election impasse doesn’t appear to be waning as the country is closing in on nearly two months since its second national election in September. In the past several days, various reports have emerged...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Will Trudeau’s new government maintain steady support for Israel?

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Despite Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau overcoming corruption allegations and winning re-election last month, he is set to govern with a minority government that will likely include support from parties to the left of his Liberal...
Israeli minister of Justice Amir Ohana speaks at the annual Justice conference in Airport City, outside Tel Aviv on September 03, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Netanyahu supporters denounce prosecutors

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Amir Ohana is Israel’s Minister of Justice. Sort of. Sitting in an interim government, he is prevented from acting on all relevant matters. But he can speak. And he did so shrilly, against what he...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Christian Media Summit at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem on Nov. 3, 2019. Photo: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom.

Netanyahu: Arab countries now see Israel as an ‘indispensable ally’

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The Arab world’s perception of Israel is undergoing a seismic shift, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Addressing a 200-strong crowd in Jerusalem at the kick-off event of the Christian Media Summit and inauguration...