The Wall Street Journal reports: TEL AVIV—An Israeli government watchdog on Tuesday released a highly critical report into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s travel expenses while he was finance minister more than a decade ago, and raised the possibility of a criminal investigation.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his rejection of the French peace initiative but told his French counterpart that he was ready to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the coming days.
RAMALLAH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday dismissed an Israeli proposal for direct negotiations instead of a French multilateral peace initiative, calling it an attempt to “buy time”.
TEL AVIV – Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has tapped two major backers of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a member on the DNC platform committee, after reports emerged that Sanders wants to revamp the platform to highlight the issue of Palestinian rights.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French peace initiative as he met his French counterpart on Monday, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Paris.
The Times of Israel reports: Seeking to assuage fears over the expected appointment of Avigdor Liberman as defense minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he has the final word on Israel’s security operations.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Children throughout the Middle East have been brainwashed to believe that Jews are akin to apes and pigs and should be killed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Chairman of the Zionist Union party and lead opposition figure in the Knesset MK Isaac Herzog revealed on Saturday that both he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a number of discussions over the past several months concerning the so called “Arab Peace Initiative,” expressing his desire to move on favorable aspects of the plan that “would have undoubtedly changed the face of the region.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has forced out his trusted defense minister, Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon, who will be replaced by controversial right-wing politician Avigdor Lieberman, who has no experience in national security.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Avigdor Liberman joining the Israeli government demonstrates that Israel favors extremism and reinforcement of occupation and settlements over peace, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a press statement issued on Thursday. “The appointment of Liberman to
The Times of Israel reports: Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday accused a vocal minority of Israelis of attacking their country’s “basic values,” adding that Israel’s “moral compass” had been lost, in his first public comments since it emerged that his position had been offered to Avigdor Liberman.
“He’s a magician, he’s a magician,” the partisan crowd chanted as a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu strode into his party headquarters a little over a year ago to declare a come-from-behind victory in Israel’s election.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held brief talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday, a day after the Egyptian leader proposed new efforts to try to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Avigdor Lieberman met Wednesday afternoon with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the possibility of bringing his six-seat Yisrael Beytenu party into the coalition, with reports indicating that he had been offered the defense minister post.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the French initiative for reviving the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, saying his failure to do so “will bring the Islamic State to Israel.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) are planning to travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in an attempt to resurrect the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to agreeing a unity government with the main opposition leader, Israeli media said Wednesday, in a move that could help revive peace talks with the Palestinians.
The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel is ready to engage with Arab states to advance a peace deal with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – The Iranian Foreign Ministry said global opposition to Israel was a “good omen” and urged the international community to put an end to Israel’s “conspiracies” against the Palestinians, including the Judaization of Jerusalem and the desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque.
A conference on the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, due to be held on May 30 in Paris, has been postponed, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon resolved their latest spat Monday, following rocketing tensions over the latter’s support of an IDF general who was criticized by the premier.
The Jewish Press reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been engaged through proxies in a long and seemingly failed negotiation with Zionist Camp Chairman (for now) Itzhak Herzog, declared during his weekly cabinet meeting that he intends to “publicly call on (Israel Beiteinu Chairman MK) Lieberman to join the government.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: An international peace process is necessary to stop the deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian conflict, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters on Sunday after separately briefing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Arab MKs participated in a “Nakba Day” ceremony at Entin Square in front of the main entrance to Tel Aviv University on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – In a strongly worded letter to French President Francois Hollande, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed France’s support for a UNESCO resolution denying Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, a local TV channel reported Saturday. France issued an
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France’s foreign minister on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a French initiative for an international conference to try to revive peace talks.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.
The Jerusalem Post reports: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was set to arrived in Israel Saturday night to update Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on a new peace initiative his country plans to launch at the end of this month.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked heads of diplomatic missions and religious communities on Thursday to encourage Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept his offer to talk peace.
TEL AVIV – A 94-year-old Holocaust survivor penned a letter rejecting controversial remarks made by Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan (pictured above, right) during a Holocaust Remembrance Day address in which he compared Israel to Nazi-era Germany.
CANNES (FRANCE) (AFP) – Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (pictured) is to star in a provocative new comedy which parodies deep-rooted anti-Semitism in France, its director said Thursday. “The Jews” — titled “They are everywhere” in French — is being shot by Gainsbourg’s
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heckled at a terror victims’ memorial on Wednesday by an Israeli stabbed in 2000, whose brother was badly hurt in an ax attack in February.
TEL AVIV – Despite being debunked by Breitbart Jerusalem and others, Iran’s state-affiliated Press TV has not corrected a false report claiming that Saudi King Salman financed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election campaign in 2015 to the tune of $80 million.
TEL AVIV – “We will not give up our hope to achieve peace with our enemies- But first we will achieve peace with ourselves,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a speech in Jerusalem on Tuesday in memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Israel “soon”, he told an Israeli newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he threatened to send Israeli commandos into Cairo in 2011 to rescue a number of Israeli security staff besieged by demonstrators who had stormed the mission.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s controversial speech to the US Congress last year, an address that strained ties with the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats who viewed it as an affront to the president, has been the highlight so far of Israel Ambassador Ron Dermer’s period in Washington, he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview.
TEL AVIV – For the first time in 15 years, liberal Democrats in the U.S. sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel (40 percent versus 33 percent), a new poll from the Pew Research Center found.
TEL AVIV – Iran’s state-affiliated Press TV on Monday ran a false report claiming that Saudi King Salman financed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election campaign in 2015 to the tune of $80 million. The report, titled, “Leaked: Saudi King financed
TEL AVIV – Israel Law Center-Shurat Hadin on Sunday threatened to sue Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for purportedly allowing the Palestinian Authority to use Israeli airwaves to broadcast incitement to violence.
TEL AVIV – In an oped published on Politico, former Middle East adviser to President Barack Obama, Dennis Ross, declared that Israel and Arab countries are increasingly turning to Russia because the United States is seen as “weak” and Middle Eastern leaders have “given up” on Obama.
