Benjamin Netanyahu
“I am not anti-Israel. But the fact of the matter is [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is a right-wing politician who I think is treating the Palestinian people extremely unfairly,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during a town hall hosted by CNN.
Moshe Kahlon was finance minister in the outgoing unity government, and it has been speculated that he is intent on retaining that role.
The right-wing bloc is expected to consist of the Likud, Kulanu, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas and United Torah Judaism parties—a 65-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset.
This was in response to nine Jewish groups calling on the president on Friday to stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from carrying out his campaign promise to annex parts of the West Bank.
“In many ways, liberal journalists are recycling the scripts they used in covering the 2015 Israeli elections. Back then, they scolded Netanyahu for ‘hardline’ or even ‘racist’ rhetoric that “went for the gutter,” said Rich Noyes, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center.
Once Benjamin Netanyahu is selected, he will have 28 days to form a unity government. A 14-day extension can be granted, if necessary.
U.S. former acting National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel reveals nonclassified parts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s published security and defense outlook. According to the doctrine, Israel is no longer threatened existentially.
“With the end of the vote count and the announcement of final results, I congratulate you on the achievement in the elections,” Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The American Jewish community on both sides of the political coin reacts to the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud in Israel’s national elections on April 9.
“This is an unimaginable achievement,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told jubilant supporters at Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Despite an expected close race, voter turnout mid-afternoon on election day was at 35.8 percent, slightly lower than the last national election in 2015 at the same time at 36.6 percent.
Lebanese journalist Nadim Koteich: “I support [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s anti-Iranian policy; Beirut is more important than Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.”
