Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu
Lammy urges end to war on Hamas, decries ‘intolerable’ suffering in Gaza
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during meetings with Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Sunday and Monday pressed the need for a hostage deal with the Hamas terrorist group to bring an end to the...
Defeating Hamas, Hezbollah key to winning PR war, Netanyahu says
Swiftly defeating Hamas and Hezbollah on the battlefield is critical to winning the global public-relations war against the Jewish state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told rabbis gathered at his office on Wednesday.
Netanyahu spoke...
ICC’s request for arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant reportedly hurt US, UK support
The decision by the International Criminal Court prosecutor ahead of his staff’s planned visit to the Jewish state to request arrest warrants for top Israeli officials has reportedly “harmed operational cooperation” with Washington and...
Netanyahu, Biden to speak about new hostage proposal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak with President Joe Biden on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office told JNS.
While the PMO declined to comment on the nature of the conversation, Biden will reportedly...
‘Iran is fighting us on a seven-front war,’ Netanyahu tells JINSA delegation
The first thing that the Jewish state must do is to defeat Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of retired U.S. Jewish military leaders at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel...
In Jerusalem, Netanyahu thanks visiting Fetterman for ‘moral clarity, courage’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on the legislator’s first trip to the Jewish state. He met the day before with Israeli...
Likud lawmaker blocks gov’t bill to up age limit for IDF reserve service
Likud Party legislator Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, on Wednesday refused to advance a government-backed proposal to raise the retirement age for military reservists, citing the failure to...
McConnell: Antisemitism ‘reaches from college campuses to US Capitol’
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed colleagues planning to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress, drawing a link between members of Congress and anti-Israel campus protesters.
“The scourge of...
Netanyahu calls for unity at memorial for those who died in ‘Altalena’ affair
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against internal strife at a state memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on Tuesday for those who died during the 1948 Altalena affair.
Speaking at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery outside Tel Aviv on...
After Gantz exit, Netanyahu disbands War Cabinet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed members of his government of his intent to dissolve the War Cabinet set up after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
The premier told ministers on Sunday that the powerful...