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Netanyahu has ‘warm conversation’ with Merz after German election win
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his party's main candidate for chancellor, applauds supporters after the first exit polls in the German general elections were announced on TV during the electoral evening in Berlin on February 23, 2025. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “warm conversation” last night with Friedrich Merz, the presumptive German chancellor after his CDU/CSU came first in the German elections yesterday.
According to Netanyahu’s office, Merz said he would invite him to Germany, which seems to indicate that Merz would not enforce the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
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