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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, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, look on (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 (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
September 1, 2015, 8:20 pm
Clinton confidant: Netanyahu driven by desperate need to please father
In declassified email, Clinton seems to agree with Sid Blumenthal that Mavi Marmara was ‘Bibi’s Entebbe in reverse,’ in which he tried to emerge from slain brother’s shadow
By Itamar Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 11, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Matthieu Alexandre)
January 14, 2015, 6:49 pm
Netanyahu compares France to pre-Inquisition Spain
Participants in PM’s closed Paris meeting with Jewish leaders say he was insulting and smug, decry his excessive reliance on parliamentarian Meyer Habib
By Elhanan Miller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press about Iran at Ben Gurion Airport, Friday, November 8, 2013 (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom /GPO/Flash90)
November 9, 2013, 2:58 pm
Agitated Netanyahu wonders if he left it too late
The prime minister’s very public horror at the deal taking shape in Geneva reflects his concern that he is failing in what he sees as his central mission
By David Horovitz
An Iron Dome battery stationed in the north near the city of Haifa, January 2013. (photo credit Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash 90)
May 5, 2013, 5:06 pm
Haifa mayor orders preparations for possible Syrian retaliation
Following Israel’s reported strike at targets near Damascus, Yona Yahav holds urgent meetings with authority representatives
By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer
An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet during a training exercise (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
May 5, 2013, 11:58 am
‘Strike in Syria sends a message to Iran,’ says former intel chief
At least some of the actors here take ‘red lines’ seriously, says Amos Yadlin, in a dig at US inaction regarding Assad; Netanyahu stresses imperative to ensure Israel’s security
By Gavriel Fiske
Jeffrey Woolf
February 19, 2013, 4:34 pm
Jeffrey Woolf
Mr Prime Minister, listen to the people!
Forming a government without Bennett and Lapid would betray core Likud principles and the will of the voters
Benjamin Netanyahu with his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, in his Jerusalem home (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)
February 7, 2013, 4:34 pm
The roots of Netanyahu’s presidential feuds?
Articles on Zionist leadership by the prime minister’s father offer a highly instructive glimpse into the ongoing discord between Israel’s leader and the soon-to-visit US president
By Mitch Ginsburg
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz, pictured in 2011. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defence/FLASH90)
August 28, 2012, 4:47 pm
The most fateful decision of all
From their very different vantage points, the US and Iran seem to have concluded that Israel is not about to strike the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites. Some insiders devoutly hope that’s accurate; others insist an attack is vital
By David Horovitz
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