Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Petrobras interested in tendering to explore for oil and gas offshore Israel

  

  Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras is considering bidding in a new tender to explore for oil and gas offshore Israel, a leading Israeli financial news website reported on Sunday. Calcalist reported that a final decision could be announced during a four-day visit to Israel by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that began on Sunday.

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazil will open a “business office” in Jerusalem; signs several agreements with Israel

  

  Brazil's Foreign Ministry formally announced on Sunday it will open a “business office” in Jerusalem, backtracking on President Jair Bolsonaro's promise to move his country's embassy to Jerusalem.

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  UN security Council denounces US decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights

  

  The United States was isolated at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights as the other countries on the council opposed the move.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 10:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro presents Netanyahu with Brazil's highest decoration for visitors

  

  Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Friday in Rio de Janeiro and sealed an alliance between the two countries, although moving the embasy to Jerusalem was reportedly not on the table. Bolsonaro presented Netanyahu with the highest national decoration for visitors in Brazil, granted in the past to former US President Dwight Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth.

• Friday, December 28th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Netanyahu will visit president elect Bolsonaro this Friday in Rio

  

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left on a historic six-day trip to Brazil, the first ever visit the largest Latin American country made by a sitting premier of the Jewish state. Besides boosting diplomatic and economic ties between the two countries, Netanyahu is scheduled to hold a one-to-one meeting with president-elect Jair Bolsonaro this Friday in Rio de Janeiro.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 05:19 UTC

  Natanyahu will not be attending Bolsonaro's inauguration, reports O'Globo

  

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will cut a visit to Brazil short, skipping incoming President Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Arab League warns Bolsonaro on moving embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

  

  The Arab League has told Brazil's right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that moving Brazil's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a setback for relations with Arab countries. Such a move by Bolsonaro, who takes office on January first, would be a sharp shift in Brazilian foreign policy, which has traditionally backed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Netanyahu adds Defense to his portfolio in move to fend off motion of censorship

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken up the duties of defense minister, following Avigdor Liberman’s resignation, he announced Sunday evening as he added it was not “time to play politics.”

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 23:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro vows to move embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

  

  Brazil's far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro promised to move his country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the newspaper 'Israel Hayom' reported Thursday.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn’s blunder may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back

  

  It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party — and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn’t leave the European Union after all.