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Two major party leaders don’t “come to Washington just for a conversation,” which poses questions as to why an initiative would be released a month before the third round of Israeli elections, says Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast negotiator.
The Memorial Candle monument in the capital’s Sacher Park honors the hundreds of thousands of Russians who died during the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad.
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie spent a month in Israel working on the campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party ahead of Israel’s March 2 elections.
In a TV interview ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the lesson of Auschwitz is to “stop bad things when they’re small—and Iran is a very bad thing.”
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein “fell into the trap laid by the left,” say sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Blue and White leader Benny Gantz: “Netanyahu requested a debate on immunity—Netanyahu will get a debate.”
“We do not abandon anyone to his fate,” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Naama Issachar, 27, who was arrested in Moscow on drug charges in April.
Panel votes 16 to 5 in favor of forming a key committee to deliberate on the request • Netanyahu: “Blue and White have zero achievements to show the citizens of Israel, so they kidnapped the Knesset.”
The legal opinion in question regards whether Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has the authority to postpone the creation of a Knesset committee to address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s immunity request prior to the March 2 elections.
Thousands take to the streets calling for the leadership to resign after Tehran admits to mistakenly shooting down a civilian jet, killing 176 • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Iran lied ... they knew from the start” they had shot down the plane.
“Israel completely stands with the United States” on Iran, and won’t be deterred by the ICC and “will not allow the uprooting of any community—Jewish or Arab—under any peace plan,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Kohelet Policy Forum.
Nearly all political leaders in Israel from left to right exhibit unity concerning national security, especially when it comes to Iran, which is viewed as an existential threat to the Jewish state.
Two ministers in proximity to the Israeli prime minister did tell the press that the United States has the right to defend itself.