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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Benzion Netanyahu

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 17, 2024, 12:11 pm
If he joins government, Sa’ar could get veto over judicial overhaul, choice of IDF chief
Gantz slams untenable recklessness of plan to oust Gallant and install Sa’ar as defense minister; gambit is ‘dangerous, but it is what it is,’ PM quoted as saying
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, March 31, 2024. (Screenshot, GPO)
March 31, 2024, 11:59 pm
As protesters demand he go, Netanyahu argues election would play into Hamas’s hands
PM says he is ‘doing everything’ to bring captives back, and those who claim otherwise are causing pain to hostage families; asserts national polls would paralyze country
By Lazar Berman
A sign reading 'Father of the dictator interchange: Father of a failed and corrupt tyrant who has become a pariah in Israel and around the world,' placed by reservist protesters against the coalition's judicial overhaul plans at a monument to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father, Benzion, north of Jerusalem, June 7, 2023. (Special Operations Division alumni protest group)
June 7, 2023, 10:51 pm
‘Father of the dictator’: Reservist protesters rename site honoring PM’s late dad
Netanyahu files police complaint, claim activists ‘desecrated’ interchange; protest leader refuses to apologize, vows to press on with non-violent efforts against judicial overhaul
By Michael Horovitz
American novelist Joshua Cohen speaks during a meeting with journalists as part of the International Writers Festival, in Jerusalem, May 16, 2022. (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
May 18, 2022, 7:42 am
Ironies pile up as author of satirical ‘The Netanyahus’ talks Pulitzer win
Listen to newly minted award-winning author Joshua Cohen speak about using art to ‘obliterate political divides’ in a bonus Times Will Tell podcast
By Jessica Steinberg
American novelist Joshua Cohen, who won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his novel, 'The Netanyahus,' poses for a portrait in Jerusalem, May 10, 2022. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 11, 2022, 6:56 am
In Jerusalem, author of prize-winning ‘Netanyahus’ says Trump real target of novel
Joshua Cohen wanted to illuminate life under rulers forged in ‘reality show’ families, using story about ex-PM’s father to ‘say certain things about liberalism’
By Joseph Krauss
American author Joshua Cohen is seen at the Coop Ambasciatori bookshop in Bologna, Italy, September 5, 2019. (Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images via JTA)
May 10, 2022, 5:49 am
Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Committee hails ‘a mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience’; Miami Herald wins news award for Surfside coverage
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Left to right: Benzion Netanyahu, sons Benjamin and Jonathan, and his wife, Tzila. (Government of Israel/ via JTA)
June 25, 2021, 10:09 pm
‘The Netanyahus’ analyzes the famous family through the story of one night
Author Joshua Cohen hopes readers find the humor in his latest novel – a fictionalized account involving Benzion Netanyahu inspired by true events
By Emily Burack
Hundreds of Israelis have donated millions of Shekels to this crowdfunding campaign to redistribute their government coronavirus stipends to the most needy. (Screenshot)
July 17, 2020, 9:26 am
Israelis donate millions to the poor after PM’s pledge of virus stipends for all
TV host Guy Lerer sets up crowdfunding campaign to redirect promised grants from ‘those who need less to those who really are in need’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures to the President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte during their meeting in Jerusalem September 3, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)
September 3, 2018, 2:48 pm
Duterte, accused of mass killings, says Israel shares his passion for people
Hosting hardline president — who once likened himself to Hitler with promise to kill millions of drug dealers — Netanyahu hails Philippines’ role saving Jews during Holocaust
By Raphael Ahren
Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his father Benzion Netanyahu, in Benzion's house in Jerusalem, February 5, 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)
June 25, 2018, 9:49 pm
With Herzog at Jewish Agency helm, Netanyahu faces rerun of his father’s fights
Appointing a perennial critic of the PM to head the quasi-governmental body risks reopening an ideological chasm that goes back to the formation of the Israel-Diaspora relationship
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife, Sara, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016 (Haim Zach/GPO)
June 8, 2016, 12:28 pm
Israel doesn’t intervene in Syria war, Netanyahu says in Russia
PM tells Jewish community leaders that he doubts Assad’s Syria will survive the conflict as a single state
By Raphael Ahren
A general view of the main wooden footbridge leading up from the Western Wall to the Temple Mount. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 4:54 pm
UN official spurns Netanyahu’s Jerusalem history lesson offer
PM wants to educate all UN staffers in Israel after UNESCO ignored Jewish ties to Temple Mount; but Mideast coordinator says they know local history ‘all too well’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stares silently at the crowd while addressing the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York on October 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)
May 6, 2016, 8:50 pm
After Temple Mount resolution, PM offers UN staff a Jewish history lesson
Netanyahu announces session following passage of UNESCO text that omits mention of Jewish ties to holiest site in Judaism
By ToI Staff and AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helps lay the National Library's new cornerstone, while National Library chairman David Bloomberg, speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, and Menachem Ben-Sasson, president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, look on, April 5, 2016.. (Courtesy Albatross)
April 5, 2016, 7:43 pm
Dignitaries and donors fete Israel’s new national library
Cornerstone-laying ceremony brings out the prime minister and the president, who vow to donate their fathers’ archives and writings
By Jessica Steinberg
Benjamin Netanyahu with his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, in his Jerusalem home on February 5, 2009. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)
October 22, 2015, 12:38 pm
In Netanyahu’s mufti-Holocaust allegation, echoes of his father’s maverick approach to history
The PM is defending his incendiary claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini persuaded Hitler to ‘burn’ the Jews by citing sources most scholars reject. Benzion Netanyahu followed a similarly controversial approach regarding the Marranos. But he was an historian, not a prime minister
By Raphael Ahren
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