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Lapid: If Netanyahu wins the next election, ‘it will be the end of Zionism’

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:57:34 +0000

PM's associate said urging restoration of direct elections for premiership amid polls showing Likud and allies failing to secure a Knesset majority

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A Netanyahu ally tells ToI no one will remember Oct. 7 by election time. He may be right

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:30:47 +0000

A triumphant narrative is being carefully crafted by the PM's inner circle to fully clear him of responsibility for the disaster, as he systematically removes all ties to it

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Top Netanyahu associate warns against ‘playing with the lion’s balls’

Thu, 18 May 2023 19:29:05 +0000

Natan Eshel tells reporters they shouldn't believe PM is losing grip on government, as coalition members make threats over state budget disagreements

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Top Netanyahu aide says public, not government, to blame for renewed outbreak

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:34:19 +0000

With PM under fire for failing to take sufficient action to contain second coronavirus wave, Natan Eshel accuses ailing business owners of not following distancing rules

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After knocking ‘non-Ashkenazim,’ Netanyahu aide says he has Mizrahi grandkids

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 08:01:39 +0000

In statement on leaked recording in which he also said 'hate is what unites' the right, Natan Eshel insists his words were taken out of context

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Netanyahu, Shas leader chide Likud aide Eshel for saying base ‘united by hate’

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:38:44 +0000

Both indicate affair behind them as left-wing parties pound prime minister and say comments reveal true face of his party

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Netanyahu aide in leaked recording: ‘Hate is what unites our camp’

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:17:46 +0000

Natan Eshel heard saying negative campaigning works well with 'non-Ashkenazi' voters and that the 'animal' Miri Regev is particularly effective at it

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Netanyahu apologizes to prominent right-wing rabbi after aide’s mocking

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:52:20 +0000

PM sorry after Natan Eshel, in bid to get extremist Itamar Ben Gvir to quit race, disparages rabbi and supporters with dismissive Yiddish prefix 'sh': 'Druckman and Shmuckman'

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Former Joint List MK says party met with Likud reps before Knesset dissolved

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:25:44 +0000

Duped by prank call from radio station, Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya reveals that Arab politicians met with Netanyahu associates Miki Zohar and Natan Eshel

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Likud said pressuring far-right parties to drop out of election

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:53:47 +0000

Otzma Yehudit and Zehut both unlikely to garner enough votes to enter Knesset, but say they are not considering ending their campaigns

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Barak charges Netanyahu behind Daily Mail ‘blood libel’ tying him to Epstein

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:52:54 +0000

At campaign launch event, Israel Democratic Party leader goes on offensive against prime minister for his own ties to alleged sex offenders

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Likud MK says Netanyahu mulled forming coalition with Arab parties

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 16:46:52 +0000

Miki Zohar says PM ultimately rejected reaching out to Ra'am-Balad and Hadash-Ta'al, as he scrambled to cobble together government; parties deny claim

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Blue and White accuses Likud of trying to lure away its MKs

Wed, 01 May 2019 17:32:42 +0000

Moshe Ya'alon calls report that Netanyahu confidant working to convince ultra-Orthodox lawmaker to defect for coalition a 'moral low'

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Netanyahu using coalition talks to secure immunity from prosecution, Gantz fumes

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:18:24 +0000

Leader of incoming Knesset's main opposition party castigates PM for building government whose 'unacceptable' sole purpose is to protect him from indictment in graft cases

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Despite protests, PM aide who quit over sexual misconduct joins coalition talks

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 19:38:43 +0000

No legal impediment to Natan Eshel participating in negotiations, says deputy AG, after women's groups say it's 'spitting in the faces of women'

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