Netanyahu’s long road to confronting Iran

For decades, Israel’s leader has maintained that survival demands strength. After Oct 7, that doctrine became a policy to reshape the region.

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Netanyahu – “together we will fight”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning said the operation was launched to remove “the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran”. He also thanked our “great friend, President Donald Trump, for his historic leadership.”

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Modi pledges closer ties with Israel in historic Knesset speech

In a speech reflecting shared history and ambitions for closer ties and condolences, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off a two-day visit to Israel by becoming the first Indian premier to address the Knesset. Read more

Knesset advances bill cementing Orthodox control of Western Wall

Israel’s Knesset has advanced controversial legislation that would place prayer arrangements at the Western Wall under the exclusive control of the ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate, prompting a sharp response from mixed-gender non-Orthodox Jewish leaders in Israel and abroad.

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Trump attacks Herzog in row over Netanyahu pardon

US President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who is accused of corruption. Read more

‘All the abductees have been returned’: Israel confirms return of last hostage, Ran Gvili

After 843 days, the remains of the last Israeli missing from Hamas’s October 7 attack have been returned to Israel, the IDF announced on Monday. Read more

Age and SMH apologise for ‘antisemitic’ Cathy Wilcox cartoon

The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have today issued apologies after publishing a controversial cartoon by Cathy Wilcox that addressed the political fallout from the Bondi Beach massacre and prompted widespread claims of antisemitism. Read more

Netanyahu: Jews’ spirit ‘will not fall’ after Sydney massacre

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit on Sunday the eighth Chanukah candle together with Chabad emissaries at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Read more

Trump, Netanyahu hold call on Hamas disarmament

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Gaza by phone on Monday. Read more

Netanyahu appears in Israeli court after pardon request

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appeared in court for the first time since asking the country’s president for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial. Read more

Netanyahu’s pardon request sparks fierce political reactions

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Lapid seeks Knesset approval of Trump plan, putting Netanyahu coalition on spot

Opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Tuesday that he will bring a motion to the Knesset next week calling for Israel to adopt U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, a move designed to support Washington while putting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition on the spot. Read more

Netanyahu on elimination of  acting Hezbollah Chief of Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the Israeli public on television Sunday night after the Israeli military eliminated

the acting Hezbollah Chief of Staff, in an airstrike in the Beirut area earlier in the day, declaring that Israel will not allow Hezbollah to rearm. Read more

After UN vote, Netanyahu says Trump plan can ‘end Hamas rule’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his first public comments Tuesday on the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, praising the initiative as a historic step toward regional stability. Read more

No Palestinian state, Netanyahu says, as Gaza demilitarisation takes centre stage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply rejected renewed international discussion of Palestinian statehood. Read more

Abbas no ‘prince of peace,’ Netanyahu tells Erin Molan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for embracing Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas as a “prince of peace” following their meeting in Paris. Read more

Israeli president rebuffs Trump’s call to pardon Netanyahu, citing legal procedures

Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed Wednesday that he received a signed letter from U.S. President Donald Trump urging him to grant clemency to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains on trial in a series of corruption cases. Read more

A boomerang for Israel

An Aboriginal artist and co-founder of the Indigenous Friends of Israel is heading to Israel to gift a two-metre boomerang he made and painted to the Israeli government. Read more

Netanyahu rejects claims U.S. controls Israel’s security

Amid reports that Washington is influencing Israeli security decisions, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel makes its own choices regarding national security. Read more

PM slams opposition over ‘provocative’ sovereignty votes during Vance visit

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday blasted opposition parties, as well as a fellow member of the premier’s Likud faction, for advancing bills to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. Read more

Netanyahu meets US envoys, Hamas hands over another body

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are visiting Israel to shore up a tenuous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Read more

Gaza-Egypt border crossing to stay closed

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until further notice, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, adding its reopening will depend on Hamas handing over the bodies of more dead hostages, as the two sides trade blame over ceasefire violations. Read more

Poll: Netanyahu’s approval ratings at all-time high

According to the latest Direct Polls survey, conducted by Shlomo Filber in the wake of the release on Monday of the remaining 20 living hostages held in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval ratings are at their highest since the elections in Nov. 2022. Read more

Israel prepares to welcome the last living hostages

The release of Israeli hostages that have been held in Gaza for two years is imminent, with 20 survivors to be released together, followed by the handover of 28 others – 26 dead and two whose fate is unknown. Read more

Netanyahu slams Spanish PM for ‘genocidal threat’ against Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night accused his Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, of having issued a “blatant genocidal threat” against Israel earlier this week. Read more

Israel attacks Hamas in Qatar, Trump ‘very unhappy’

Donald Trump says he’s “very unhappy about every aspect” of the surprise Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in the capital of close US strategic ally Qatar. Read more

Gaza City operation entering ‘decisive stage,’ Netanyahu tells IDF troops

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed IDF reservists and conscripts on Tuesday amid a massive mobilisation as the military prepares to conquer one of the last Hamas strongholds of Gaza City, calling it a “decisive stage” in the nearly two-year-long war. Read more

Death of journalists in latest Mideast attack condemned

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was a “tragic mishap”. Read more

Jewish organisations react to growing rift between Australia and Israel

Australian Jewish organisations have expressed concern about the potential impact on relations with Israel following Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s announcement that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.

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Israel to begin Gaza ceasefire talks to end war: PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will immediately resume negotiations for the release of all hostages held in Gaza and an end to the nearly two-year-old war, but on terms acceptable to Israel. Read more

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