Benjamin Netanyahu

“I like the two-state solution,” Trump said to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “That’s what I think works best. I don’t even have to speak to anybody; that’s my feeling.”

Leaving for the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says thanks to cooperation with Russia, Israel has had “great success” in curtailing Iran in Syria.

A report that U.S. president plans to rebuke the Israeli prime minister for increasing security coordination with Russia and stalling U.S. peace plan is “completely false,” says U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.

With the Sukkot holiday in full swing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves Israel on Tuesday to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York and meet with world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump.

Although the agreement itself didn’t call for the creation of an official Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, subsequent Israeli proposals over the years did allow for such an entity to come into being. All of those offers, however, were rejected by the Palestinian leadership.

Speaking at a ceremony for Israel’s first day of school, Netanyahu said, “The U.S. did something very important by stopping funding for the refugee perpetuation agency known as UNRWA. It is finally starting to solve the problem. The funds must be taken and used to genuinely help rehabilitate the refugees, whose true number is a fraction of the number reported by UNRWA.”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, taking part in the first day ceremonies told students: “You can be prime ministers, and, of course, presidents of the country. You can be ministers or Knesset members. ... The boys and girls here are the future of the State of Israel.”

In July 2017, after McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote: “Godspeed, @SenJohnMcCain. A hero. A fighter. A friend. Israel is with you.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife, Sara, visited the only synagogue in Vilnius to survive World War II and viewed ancient texts at the National Library’s Jewish Studies Center.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to accept an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa. She is also expected to visit the Israel Museum and the Foreign Ministry exhibit on innovation featuring the work of six Israeli companies.

Among six world leaders, the Israeli prime minister gets the third-lowest approval rating, succeeding Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea head Kim Jong-un.

“The nuclear deal did not block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paved Iran’s path to an entire nuclear arsenal,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Removing the sanctions enabled Iran to bring in billions and billions of dollars to its coffers which only fueled Iran’s war machine in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen and elsewhere.”