Poll: 86 percent of Likud voters support Netanyahu over Edelstein as party leader

Some 86 percent of Likud voters prefer to see former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the party’s leader over former Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who announced on Monday that he plans to challenge Netanyahu for the role, a Channel 12 news survey revealed on Tuesday. Read more

Pompeo in Binyamin: ‘We stand with the Jewish Communities because we are loyal to the truth’

A tribute event, attended by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders from Judea and Samaria, was held on Sunday evening for former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in appreciation of his efforts to strengthen the Jewish communities in the region. Read more

Israeli Foreign Minister: Delay in US aid to Iron Dome – ‘technical’

The Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, experienced a significant diplomatic setback on Tuesday when the US Congress decided to withhold military aid from Israel and refused to vote on funding for its Iron Dome defence system. Read more

Avi Dichter declares intention to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership

Member of the Knesset Avi Dichter has stated his intention to seek the leadership of the Likud Party. Read more

The cost of Israel’s partisan games on security

Like so much of what happens in the Knesset, the aftermath of a recent vote on a law that would prevent a possible flood of Palestinian immigrants into Israel was not a very edifying spectacle. Read more

Netanyahu calls emergency meeting of right-wing bloc

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called an emergency meeting of the right-wing bloc after Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid informed Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin late on Wednesday night that he had managed to form a coalition. Read more

Handing over the baton

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin has congratulated president-elect Isaac ‘Bougie’ Herzog. Read more

The tragedy of Benjamin Netanyahu

It didn’t have to end this way. In what may be only a matter of days, Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented 12-year-run as prime minister of Israel looks to be coming to an end. Read more

Netanyahu: Israel will get rid of Iran’s existential threat, even if US opposes

If faced with the difficult situation of having to choose between an Iran armed with nuclear weapons or a diplomatic clash with Washington following an attack on Iran, Israel would choose the latter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared. Read more

Netanyahu slams Bennett for joining opposition: ‘Scam of the century’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply attacked Yamina Party chairman Naftali Bennett on Sunday, condemning the right-wing leader’s decision to join with opposition parties in forming a government. Read more

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Ambassador David Friedman: ‘Trump administration would have given Israel free reign to defend itself’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was dispatched to Israel by U.S. President Joe Biden this week in the direct aftermath of an acute conflagration highlighted by 11 days of indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli population centres and pinpoint Israeli airstrikes on Hamas installations in Gaza in retaliation. Read more

Netanyahu names new head of Mossad intelligence agency

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that David Barnea has been selected to serve as the next director of the Mossad intelligence agency, following outgoing head Yossi Cohen. Read more

A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an update on the continuing conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Netanyahu fails to form government

Benjamin Netanyahu has been unable to form a new government following the 28-day term allotted to him to do so. Read more

Key witness resumes testimony in Netanyahu corruption trial

The former CEO of Israel’s Walla news website on Tuesday resumed his testimony before the Jerusalem District Court in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Read more

Evidentiary phase of Netanyahu’s graft trial commences

The evidentiary phase of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s graft trial commenced Monday with the opening statement of Prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari and the beginning of the testimony of one of the key witnesses. Read more

Netanyahu touts achievements from record vaccinations to boosting regional ties, security

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his case for why he believes—again, or rather, still—that he is Israel’s strongest candidate to head Israel’s next government in the fourth round of elections in two years. Read more

PM Netanyahu and Health Minister Edelstein meet the 4,000,000th person to be vaccinated in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have met the 4,000,000^th person to be vaccinated in Israel. Read more

Netanyahu gets injection number two

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have received the second dose of the anti-coronavirus vaccine. Read more

PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Edelstein Meet the 500,000th person in Israel to be vaccinated

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein yesterday visited the Clalit Health Services anti-coronavirus vaccination facility at the Pais Arena in Jerusalem and met the 500,000^th person in Israel to be vaccinated. Read more

Palestinians sigh in relief after Biden victory: ready to resume negotiations and coordination without preconditions

A sigh of relief and satisfaction, disgust for President Donald Trump and anticipation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s weakening, along with fears of renewed tension between Fatah and Hamas – this is how the Palestinian arena reacted to Joe Biden’s victory. Read more

Netanyahu’s five-point battleground to stay in power

Since fortifying Israel’s frayed political system with a victory over his political rivals and the formation of a unity coalition in April, governance for Israel’s embattled prime minister has been anything but simple. Read more

In Israel visit, Pompeo urges progress on Trump’s Mideast peace plan, blasts Iranian aggression

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning for a six-hour visit to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan and Iranian aggression. Read more

Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern in a video conference with Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a video conference on Friday hosted by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, with prominent world leaders on the corona pandemic including Australia’s Scott Morrison and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern. Read more

“Restoring Jewish sovereignty” is not “West Bank annexation”

Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have reached a critical point in their negotiations to form a Government of National Unity: whether to seize the opportunity presented by President Trump to restore Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria – the heartland of the ancient and biblical Jewish National Home – after an absence of 3000 years. Read more

Stop the madness! National Unity Government Now!

We are experiencing a global nightmare that could result in millions of deaths. Read more

Latest COVID-19 instructions for Israelis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given an update to citizens on the fight against the Coronavirus. Read more

Israel’s attorney general opposes Netanyahu’s request for trial delay

Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit informed a Jerusalem District Court on Monday that he is opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to delay his trial. Read more

Unrestrained hatred endangering our democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confounded his adversaries and proved that he may be the world’s most consummate politician. Read more

Netanyahu’s overwhelming victory and Gantz’s parliamentary putsch

Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents claim that the results of the three elections the country has held over the past 12 months have been essentially unchanged, with the embattled prime minister and his right-wing bloc repeatedly proving unable to muster a parliamentary majority. Read more

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