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Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool) (Sebastian Scheiner, AP / February 19, 2012) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media say the prime minister's top spokesman has...
Israeli newspapers, TV and radio stations are reporting on Wednesday that Yoaz Hendel is leaving because Netanyahu was not pleased with the way he handled the case of another top aide forced to step down over a sexual harassment scandal. In an apparent...
Israeli newspapers, TV and radio stations are reporting on Wednesday that Yoaz Hendel is leaving because Netanyahu was not pleased with the way he handled the case of another top aide forced to step down over a sexual harassment scandal. In an apparent...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (Sebastian Scheiner / AP Pool) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media say the prime minister's top spokesman has resigned, injecting new...
The chummy photos on the walls of the bunker itself, which overlooks a private courtyard, represent a who’s who of conservative royalty, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani and Benjamin Netanyahu. But when Sheldon Adelson hobbles into...
The latest visitor was US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who on Sunday held a two-hour meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and held similar in-depth talks with Defence Minister Ehud Barak, whose “hawkish line” on Iran is worrying...
Public signs of strain in the relationship are beginning to emerge. After meeting separately Tuesday in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona told reporters that...
After reading the works of Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who wrote in the 1960s about using the Holocaust to justify Israeli injustices, and hearing Benjamin Netanyahu’s rhetorical use of the Holocaust last year before the U.S. Congress, I have...
Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated in Israel last year calling for more affordable housing and lower prices for food and other consumer products. The lack of competition is one of the causes of higher costs, Prime Minister Benjamin...
The precise mix often depends on the day of the week and on the news of the day. It has become a bit exhausting, thinking about Israel. Gone are the uncomplicated, Leon Uris-scripted days of one-eyed war heroes and Yoni Netanyahu’s martyrdom on the...
Israel and the United States,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. The president’s election-year address to the conference comes at a time of tensions between the U.S. and Israel over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and rising concern in Washington...
The ruling was welcomed by Israel’s secular majority but could set off rifts in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition government, which includes powerful religious Jewish parties. The 2002 “Service Deferral Law” offered the...
While Iran has claimed its nuclear program is for civilian purposes, it's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also rattled sabers by calling for death to Israel and saying the country will be wiped off the map. The Iran issue will also be...
Obama plans to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference in Washington on March 4, the day before his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House announced Tuesday. "The president welcomes this...
The prime minister's bureau refused to comment on the report, while sources close to the bureau said that the resignation is not final yet. The prime minister has reportedly lost confidence in the senior officials who made the complaints against Eshel.
Information Directorate head at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, Yoaz Hendel, resigned from his post on Tuesday in the wake of the Natan Eshel affair – Netanyahu's bureau chief who agreed on Sunday to resign after being accused of sexually...
AVIV - Top Israel officials have strongly objected and conveyed to the US that its statements over an attack on Iran had "served" Tehran's interests. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other senior officials made their...
The White House says Obama will speak at the conference on March 4. He will hold meetings the following day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will also be in Washington to attend the conference. Hezbollah: Iran will not ask it to...
The White House says Obama will speak at the conference on March 4. He will hold meetings the following day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will also be in Washington to attend the conference. The president's election-year remarks...
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (help·info) (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ, Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, born 21 October 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is Chairman of the Likud Party. As leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime... Full Article
A girl born in Israel to a foreign worker, holds a sign that reads in Hebrew, 'My name is Camile, I am in first grade, Bibi (refering to the Israeli PM) don't deport me' during a protest against a possible deportation of their families from Israel outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's...
View Photo »Israeli born Children of foreign workers protest against a possible deportation of their families from Israel outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's residency in Jerusalem on February 21, 2012 organized by the NGO Israeli Children. Under an August 2010 cabinet decision, foreign workers with...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel take a sip after raising a toast prior to a joint dinner in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2011.
View Photo »Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C-R) shake hands as they pose with all their ministers after a press conference following a joint cabinet meeting in Netanyahu's office on January 31, 2011, in Jerusalem, at the start of her two-day visit...
View Photo »Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel gesture at a press conference following a joint cabinet meeting in Netanyahu's office on January 31, 2011, in Jerusalem, at the start of her two-day visit. Netanyahu warned of the dangers of an...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures at the beginning of his government’s cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 23, 2011. Israel's vice-prime minister Silvan Shalom said that the formation of a Lebanese government led by Hezbollah would be a 'very, very dangerous...
View Photo »Green Peace activists climb on the strings of Jerusalem’s Chords Bridge to hang a banner during a protest against the construction of a coal plant in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on January 16, 2011. The banner reads in Hebrew 'Bibi stop the coal power station', referring to...
View Photo »Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual meeting of the Foreign Press in Jerusalem January 11, 2011.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 9, 2011, one day after the Israeli premier's office announced that its chief peace negotiator Yitzhak Molcho is to travel to Washington next week to renew contacts with the Palestinians.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu read a letter is addressed to US President Barack Obama calling to pardon Jonathan Pollard, at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) January 4, 2010 in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked US President Barack Obama to pardon...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee at the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem on January 3, 2011.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the opening session of the Conference of Presidents of major Jewish American organizations on February 19, 2012 in Jerusalem.
View Photo »Children of migrant workers take part in a protest outside the office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem February 21, 2012, against the deportation of migrant workers' families from Israel.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks during a news conference with Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias at the presidential palace in Nicosia February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks during a news conference with Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias in Nicosia February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) is escorted by Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias (L) in Nicosia February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media during a press conference after meeting with Cyprus president Dimitris Christofias, at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Netanyahu said Thursday that the Iranian president's...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media during a press conference after meeting with Cyprus president Dimitris Christofias, at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Netanyahu paid a historic visit to Cyprus, declaring...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs a guestbook in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on February 16, 2012. Netanyahu's landmark visit to Cyprus is aimed at highlighting an unprecedented warming of ties between the two nations which have struck rich with natural gas finds.
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias (L) in Nicosia February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Cypriot President Demetris Christofias (L) gives a pen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a guestbook after a meeting in Nicosia on February 16, 2012. Netanyahu's landmark visit to Cyprus is aimed at highlighting an unprecedented warming of ties between the two nations...
View Photo »Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with Cypriot President Demetris Christofias (R) after a meeting in Nicosia on February 16, 2012. Netanyahu's landmark visit to Cyprus is aimed at highlighting an unprecedented warming of ties between the...
View Photo »Cypriot President Demetris Christofias (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival for a meeting in Nicosia on February 16, 2012. Netanyahu's landmark visit to Cyprus is aimed at highlighting an unprecedented warming of ties between the two nations...
View Photo »Indian bystanders tend to an Israeli diplomat (partially obscured, on ground) following a car explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on February 13, 2012. Israeli embassy staff were targeted by car bomb attacks in Delhi and Tbilisi on February 13, with Prime Minister Benjamin...
View Photo »Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rd L) arrives at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 13, 2012. Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Netanyahu accused Iran and...
View Photo »A girl born in Israel to a foreign worker, holds a sign that reads in Hebrew, 'My name is Camile, I am in first grade, Bibi (refering to the Israeli PM) don't deport me' during a protest against a possible deportation of their families from Israel outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's...
View Photo »Erekat wants to abandon the talks on January 26, but the Quartet set 90 days for the talks ... We count them from the first meeting that took place, so that's until April 3.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar. What he did here, no prime minister has ever dared to do. He misleads the Israeli citizens on political and social issues. Israeli citizens should know they have a liar for a prime minster
I'm ready to get into my car at any time and go to Ramallah, even if it's more than a small headache for my security guards, but Abu Mazen isn't ready
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the renewal of the transfer of tax monies, for the time being, to the Palestinian Authority
For the last three years, the Palestinians have refused to enter negotiations, thinking they could impose preconditions upon us
The Hamas chief also brushed off threats by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which has vowed to retaliate should Abbas’s Western-backed Palestinian Authority form a unity government with Gaza’s Islamist rulers. The threats by Netanyahu’s government and its security cabinet do...
We gave (them) a document with 21 points of consensus in Israel ... I hope we can come on January 26 and continue talks.
You don't know how much the army is spending?
What, you don't know? The prime minister does not know what is happening with the defense budget?
We are in the same boat ... and you don't need to pay the price of populist legislation. I oppose this irresponsible legislation. It is important that we continue behaving with economic responsibility and not scatter money mindlessly. If the economy crashes, the citizens will pay the price.
Israel cannot go back to 1967 lines ... We can’t go back to the indefensible lines.
Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestinian government that's backed by Hamas ... Hamas has just attacked you, Mr. President, and the United States for ridding the world of bin Laden.
if the Palestinians wanted to negotiate, the only way to do so would be with Israel's elected government.
I recently sent a copy of [the] ‘Palestinian Chicken’ [episode] that Larry David gave me, to Prime Minister Netanyahu—with the suggestion that he invite [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas over to watch it together ... And maybe if they both get a good laugh, they can begin a negotiating process.
I recently sent a copy of [the] ‘Palestinian Chicken’ [episode] that Larry David gave me, to Prime Minister Netanyahu—with the suggestion that he invite [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas over to watch it together ... And maybe if they both get a good laugh, they can begin a negotiating process.
more than a few elements in the Arab world which wish to tighten links with Israel
Generally, security threats to Israel have been increasingly on the rise. It would be right to enter a phase of stability and empowerment, with an emphasis on intelligence
Israel is considering in the near future transferring tax money to the Palestinian Authority, this will be based on a governmental decision. We will examine this situation every month
I oppose the draft law that will be brought up regarding limiting petitions to the High Court of Justice against the state. I will act thus whenever a law reaches my desk that would be liable to infringe on the independence of the courts in Israel
The state of Israel was founded as a Jewish and democratic state ... Israeli democracy is strong but that strength does not exempt us from acting to preserve it.
Defense needs must be balanced against pressure to preserve the Israeli economy ... We will have to find the appropriate balance between the two and there is definitely no room for budget unruliness.
I want to clear: the courts in Israel are among the cornerstones of Israeli democracy ... They are an important institution, a healthy and vital continuation of our democratic life here. This does not contradict, however, the need to correct distortions that have entered in our public systems over the y...
I will oppose any law that would undermine the independence of Israel's court system
I will not establish Israel's policy on illusions
True, but that is not our only interest.
