Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:19 UTC

  Israel's Netanyahu defiant says he will complete his term and be re-elected in 2019

  

  In an impassioned 10-minute rebuttal to police recommendations to indict him on bribery and breach of trust charges, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the nation on Tuesday night that not only will this government complete its term, but he will again be re-elected in 2019.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2017 - 07:50 UTC

  Strong reply to Netanyahu: No European leaders plan to adopt Trump's position on Jerusalem

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the EU on Monday to back a new U.S. peace initiative in the Middle East, after President Donald Trump's unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital met with widespread condemnation.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2017 - 11:34 UTC

  PM May and Netanyahu mark centenary of the contentious Balfour Declaration

  

  PM Theresa May is to host her Israeli counterpart as part of events marking the centenary of a British pledge which paved the way for Israel's creation. Benjamin Netanyahu's visit comes on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration of British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine.

• Friday, October 13th 2017 - 12:11 UTC

  Israel follows the US and will pull out of “highly politicized” UNESCO

  

  Israel has said it will join the US in pulling out of the UN's cultural organization Unesco, after US officials cited “anti-Israel bias”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the US decision as “brave and moral,” a statement said.

• Thursday, September 14th 2017 - 06:37 UTC

  Netanyahu, in Colombia: Israel a close ally in war and in the reconstruction process

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos are pledging to strengthen ties in areas like science, security and tourism as Colombia transitions into a post-conflict era. Netanyahu arrived in Bogota on Wednesday for the second-leg of his trip as the first Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America.

• Wednesday, September 13th 2017 - 10:32 UTC

  Israel's Netanyahu praises Macri for his efforts to solve the AMIA bombing

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday used the first Latin America visit of a sitting Israeli prime minister to praise President Mauricio Macri's effort to solve the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, AMIA, in 1994 that killed 85 people.

• Wednesday, September 6th 2017 - 06:55 UTC

  Israel's prime minister Netanyahu will be visiting Argentina next week

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu will next week become the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America on a trip to include a stop in Argentina 25 years after the bombing of his country's embassy there.

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 01:29 UTC

  Israel follows hard line Sunni Arab states and plans to ban Al Jazeera

  

  Israel is seeking to close Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera's offices in the country and revoke its journalists' media credentials. Communications Minister Ayoub Kara alleged that the channel supported terrorism, and said both its Arabic and English-language channels would be taken off air. Al Jazeera has condemned the decision.

• Friday, October 14th 2016 - 15:29 UTC

  Unesco draft on Jerusalem holy sites triggers strong criticism from Israel

  

  Unesco, the United Nations’ cultural agency on Thursday passed a draft resolution that played down Jewish ties to religious sites in Jerusalem, in a decision Israel called “absurd.” The resolution from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco, heavily criticized Israel’s actions toward holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City.

• Thursday, May 5th 2016 - 15:26 UTC

  Israel will have a non-member representation at NATO headquarters

  

  NATO said on Wednesday it had agreed to non-member Israel setting up representation at its Brussels headquarters, a tentative sign of rapprochement between the Jewish state and NATO member Turkey.