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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Flash90.

Netanyahu’s new security doctrine to boost defense spending by ‎billions

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‎presented the cabinet with his new security doctrine ‎for Israel on Wednesday, one that entails increasing defense spending by ‎billions of shekels. ‎ The “2030 security concept,” which has been...
An emergency meeting of the Israeli security cabinet attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, as well as other senior defense officials. Credit: Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry.

Israel’s security cabinet orders IDF to continue airstrikes on Hamas in Gaza

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After an emergency meeting late Thursday, Israel’s security cabinet ordered the IDF to “continue taking strong action against the terrorist elements,” said the Prime Minister’s Office. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Knesset Plenary Hall session ahead of the vote on the Nationality Law, which will enforce the foundation of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, on July 18, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Amid nation-state law controversy, Netanyahu urges lawmakers to ‘fight for the truth’

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Israelii Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told ‎Likud ministers he expected them to express ‎‎“unreserved and unapologetic” support for ‎the controversial nation-state law.‎ ‎“The Jewish nation-state is the basis of our ‎‎existence,” he said....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary on July 18, 2017. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO

Welcoming Orbán doesn’t betray Israeli democracy

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For those who like neat political theories with straight lines connecting the people they don’t like, the upcoming visit of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán to Israel provides some potent ammunition. Orbán was elected for a third...
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Israeli president stands up against Arab discrimination

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Various proposals for a new Basic Law, formally known as “Israel: The Nation State of the Jewish People,” or the “Nationality Law” for short, have been sitting before the Knesset for several years now....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu to Putin: Iran needs to leave Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, just hours after Israel shot down a Syrian drone that had infiltrated Israeli airspace. “It is clear that our focus...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 24, 2018. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL

Facing backlash to errors in amended Polish Holocaust law, Netanyahu to ‘speak up’

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the ongoing controversy over his recent joint statement with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on an amendment to Poland’s controversial Holocaust law. The law, which prohibits accusing Poland of...

Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?

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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem. That’s the moral of the story with regard to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inept attempt to resolve a quarrel with...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at a state ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust

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The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly criticized the “highly problematic wording” of a recent joint statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, that sought to end a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2015, after general elections with Netanyahu claiming victory. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu vows to pass nation-state bill by end of ‎Knesset’s current session

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday to ‎ensure that the controversial nation-state bill passes ‎the legislative process by the end of the Knesset’s ‎summer session‏ ‏on July 22. ‎ The bill defines Israel as...