Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal
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.
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Dershowitz calls on Mandelblit to ‘do the right thing’ and drop charges against Netanyahu
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...
Netanyahu: Gantz’s plan to form minority government with Arab parties is ‘madness’
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...
Israeli party leaders lament stalling of movement towards government coalition
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...
Did Netanyahu purposely precipitate a Gaza crisis?
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...
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...
Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?
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...
Will Trudeau’s new government maintain steady support for Israel?
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...
Netanyahu supporters denounce prosecutors
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...
Netanyahu: Arab countries now see Israel as an ‘indispensable ally’
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...