Benjamin Netanyahu
According to the prime minister, the extension bill allowed for the “immediate flow of money for the opening of the school year, assistance to the Israeli people, health and in all areas.”
The budget bill got the go-ahead in a last-moment rush of parliamentary activity after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his support for it in the name of “national responsibility.”
Thousands run to shelters after rocket triggers sirens in Ashkelon during a tour by Israel’s education minister • Arson attacks from the Gaza Strip ignite some 40 fires in southern Israel.
“I have never leaked in my life,” says the Israeli defense minister, responding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reason for not keeping him informed.
“We made peace without conceding land,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of normalization with the UAE. As for the Palestinians, they “haven’t changed since the Balfour Declaration.”
In rare TV interview, Sara Netanyahu says protesters “go into great detail about how they plan to kill us, how they will dismember my children. Why didn’t I hear anyone condemn that?”
“We thought all the red lines had already been crossed; it appears we were wrong,” says Israeli premier • Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit: “No basis” for claim complaints are being ignored.
Knesset votes 56 to 41 to postpone the Aug. 25 deadline • The bill’s sponsor, MK Zvi Hauser, calls on lawmakers to “come to our senses” to prevent yet another election.
A bill seeking to postpone the Aug. 25 deadline is to come before the Knesset on Wednesday • “We need to make every effort to avoid elections,” says Israeli premier.
Eulogizing internationally acclaimed Talmud scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the Israeli prime minister says, “His important works will stand for generations at the foundation of Jewish heritage as an eternal flame in his memory.”
Likud Party claims Blue and White is blocking a $2.5 billion economic aid program • Blue and White: Likud is refusing to honor the coalition agreement.
Israel’s prime minister blasts the media for its role in “an attempt to trample democracy.”
