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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman during a visit to the West Bank, July 20, 2016. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Last-ditch Netanyahu-Lieberman meeting ends with no breakthrough

A last-ditch effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday morning to form a broad unity government ended in failure. According to a Likud statement, “the meeting...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Yossi Ashkenazi arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on Oct. 2, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Netanyahu’s lawyers: ‘The attorney general is listening to us closely’

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“The attorney general’s people are listening to us closely,” a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal defense team said on Thursday. Speaking to the media going into the second day of Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing,...
Israelis demonstrate in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the house of Attorney General of Israel, Avichai Mandelblit, ahead of the hearing on the corruption cases in which Netanyahu is a suspect, on October 1, 2019. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Pre-indictment hearings begin in Israel, putting Netanyahu on the political sidelines for now

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing began on Wednesday after three years of investigation. Netanyahu, who did not attend the hearing, is seeking to convince Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and state prosecutors not...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin during a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset, on May 18, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Right-wing parties decide to stick together as unity talks flail

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with leaders of parties from the right-wing bloc to discuss the future of negotiations to form a unity government after talks with Blue and White went...
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement in Tel Aviv on Sept. 26, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90.

As coalition talks fail, Netanyahu’s indictment hearings begin

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As coalition negotiations appear to have failed, potentially leading Israel into an unprecedented third round of national elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared Wednesday for a pre-indictment hearing with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. Netanyahu’s...
Israelis demonstrate in support of Benjamin Netanyahu outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit ahead of the hearing on various corruption cases involving the prime minister, Oct. 1, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu pre-indictment hearing begins, attorneys to present ‘new evidence’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearing began on Wednesday at the office of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Jerusalem. Over the next four days, Netanyahu’s attorneys, Amit Hadad, Ram Caspi and Yossi Ashkenazi, will...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and its Jewish communities, on Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu wants pre-trial hearing broadcast live

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for his pre-trial hearing next week to be broadcast live on Israeli television. “After a three-year flood of tendentious, partial media leaks, the time has come for the...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presents Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form a new government, after the results of the country's votes were announced following the Sept. 17 elections, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 25, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Rivlin taps Netanyahu to form next government of Israel

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government. In his address, Rivlin said that Netanyahu, who has the backing of 55 Knesset members, six short of a majority,...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz in Rosh Ha'ayin, Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Gantz spurns Netanyahu meeting, says he will lead unity government

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Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz rejected on Thursday afternoon Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call to join a unity government under the Likud leader’s leadership, stating that he would be prime minister of a...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (center), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at a memorial ceremony for the late President Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu calls for immediate meeting with Gantz to discuss unity government

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Following Tuesday’s deadlock election results, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Thursday morning to request a meeting “at any hour today” to discuss the possibility of...