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Netanyahu to resign from ministerial posts by Jan. 1
JNS
December 12, 2019
Israel’s indicted premier announces that he will vacate the health, welfare, agriculture and Diaspora affairs portfolios, and appoint new ministers following an NGO petition to the Supreme Court.
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Gantz will ‘consider’ pardoning Netanyahu if he quits politics
December 15, 2019
“We don’t want to see another prime minister behind prison walls,” says Blue and White leader Benny Gantz • Immunity is off the table, says Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman, but Netanyahu could be allowed to “retire in dignity.”
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Netanyahu to resign from ministerial posts by Jan. 1
December 12, 2019
Israel’s indicted premier announces that he will vacate the health, welfare, agriculture and Diaspora affairs portfolios, and appoint new ministers following an NGO petition to the Supreme Court.
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Alex Traiman
December 3, 2019
Why Netanyahu is not planning to resign
Israel’s prime minister believes that he is the politician best-suited to lead the Jewish state at this critical juncture, and until the Israeli electorate tells him otherwise, he’s not going anywhere.
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Mandelbit formally submits Netanyahu indictment to Knesset speaker
Yair Altman and Ariel Kahana
Israel Hayom
December 3, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has 30 days to convince the Knesset’s House Committee, which currently has no members, to grant him immunity from prosecution.
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Martin Sherman
December 2, 2019
Merited mistrust in Israel’s legal system
One thing is beyond doubt: No good result can come out of these indictments.
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Legal scholars debate whether Netanyahu can run for prime minister
Dov Lipman
November 29, 2019
“It would be far-reaching judicial activism to establish that the president cannot give the mandate to form a government to someone who the citizens of the country vote for, assuming that they vote in high numbers of Netanyahu,” said Professor Yedidia Stern of the Israel Democracy Institute.
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Evelyn Gordon
November 27, 2019
Legalizing politics and politicizing the law
There’s a straight line connecting leftists’ rejection of the settlements’ legality with rightists’ rejection of the indictments against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Thousands attend pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv
November 27, 2019
As many as 15,000 Israelis, but almost no senior Likud lawmakers, attended the event prompted by indictments against the prime minister.
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Alex Traiman
November 27, 2019
Gantz’s ‘internal war’ rhetoric is insulting and dangerous
While implying he can heal the rifts in Israeli society, Benny Gantz is now projecting his distrust of Benjamin Netanyahu onto the millions of Israelis who have continually voted for Likud and other parties that support the prime minister.
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Alex Traiman
November 25, 2019
Ensuring ‘nobody is above the law’ shouldn’t include bending the law
Law enforcement “is not a matter of politics,” according to Israel’s attorney general. Yet it was clear from the moment the investigations began that prosecutors had their sights set on removing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office.
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Mandelbit says Netanyahu can remain interim premier while under indictment
November 25, 2019
Under Israeli law, there are no requirements for a sitting prime minister to resign if they are under criminal indictment. However, other public officials, including cabinet ministers, are required to step down.
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Jonathan S. Tobin
November 25, 2019
Netanyahu’s choice: Hold onto power, or let his ideas prevail without him?
He may hold onto his party’s leadership after being indicted. But if he can’t form another government, what is his duty to the principles he’s spent his entire life defending?
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Israel’s political fallout from Netanyahu indictment highlights entrenched partisan divide
Dov Lipman
November 22, 2019
With the right rallying behind the Israeli prime minister and the left-wing opposition calling for his resignation, the political stalemate inflicting the Jewish state has no end in sight.
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Jonathan S. Tobin
November 21, 2019
Are Netanyahu’s indictments the same as the push to impeach Trump?
The analogy between the two leaders’ predicaments is not so much in the substance of the cases as in the way their opponents and supporters perceive them.
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Netanyahu says indictment an ‘attempted coup,’ vows to remain in office
November 21, 2019
“I will not allow lies to win,” declared the Israeli prime minister. “I will continue to lead this country, according to the letter of the law.”
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