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| June 20, 2017
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PM Netanyahu tells Iran after missile strike on Syria, “Don’t threaten Israel”

 

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel was not worried by the Iranian strike, being their first strike outside its own territory in nearly 30 years. “Israel is prepared for every development, we have no concerns or worries.”

By i24NEWS

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran not to threaten Israel on Monday, hours after the Iranian army fired ballistic missiles at a Syrian base of the Islamic State.

“I have one message for Iran: Don’t threaten Israel,” Netanyahu said, reported AFP.

A picture provided by the Iran’s state TV official website shows Iranian Revolutionary Guards launching a missile from an undisclosed location in western Iran, towards Islamic State bases in Syria – IRIB TV/AFP

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired six missiles targeting “terror bases” of the Islamic State in eastern Syria on Sunday. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2017
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After discovery of Hamas tunnel beneath UN schools, Netanyahu seeks UNRWA dissolution

 

PM Netanyahu accuses Hamas of committing double war crimes, nothing that “UNRWA, by its very existence …perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem rather than resolving it. That is why the time has come to dissolve UNRWA and incorporate parts of it into the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.”
• Hamas denies claims terror-tunnels are theirs; “baseless accusations.”

By The Associated Press and Daniel Siryoti

 

“In recent days, a Hamas tunnel was discovered under two schools in Gaza,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “Hamas is using schoolchildren as human shields, and this is the enemy that we have been fighting for many years — an enemy committing a double war crime.” Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Watch: Israel’s PM Netanyahu at African gathering, renews diplomatic ties with Senegal

 

Watch: Netanyahu tells African leaders at the ECOWAS conference in Liberia, “Israel is back in Africa,” starting with renewing diplomatic ties with Senegal, after downgrading ties for supporting a UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senegal’s President Macky Sall announced on Sunday that the diplomatic crisis between the two countries has ended.

Watch: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses leaders of West African countries.

Earlier this year, in an act of retribution against the countries that co-sponsored a United Nations Security Council resolution in December condemning the construction of Jewish settlements, Israel permanently downgraded its diplomatic ties with New Zealand and Senegal. Continue Reading »

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| May 22, 2017
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Netanyahu: “Fifty years ago, we didn’t occupy, we liberated” Jerusalem

 

PM Netanyahu vows Israel ‘will continue to build in our capital’ Jerusalem, and reiterate positions on several key issues, just a day prior to US President Trump’s visit to Israel’s reunited capital.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday that Israel would continue to build in “our capital” Jerusalem, declaring his country’s unquestionable sovereignty over the entirety of the city, including east Jerusalem and its holy sites such as the Western Wall and Temple Mount.

Jerusalem celebrates 50 years of reunification – Photo: Nir Barkat/Twitter

Netanyahu was speaking at a ceremony ahead of Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the re-unification of the city following the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized by the international community. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2017
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Israel’s Prime Minister slashes funds to obsessive UN

 

PM Netanyahu directs the Foreign Ministry to cut $2 million from Israel’s annual UN funding after Human Rights Council passes latest anti-Israel motion.

By Uzi Baruch

 

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to cut $ 2 million from Israel’s payments to the UN, in light of the hostile proposals adopted by the UN Human Rights Council last week.

UN Human Rights Council – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Commons

 

This amount will be used to deepen and expand Israeli projects in the field of international assistance, and will be invested in developing countries that support Israel in international institutions. Continue Reading »

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| March 28, 2017
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Israel’s PM Netanyahu thanks US for support , vows to work toward peace

 

WATCH as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual AIPAC convention via satellite, saying, “I’m confident our alliance with the U.S. will grow even stronger in the years ahead,” and that he was committed to working with U.S. President Trump to advance peace with the Palestinian.

By Yoni Hersch, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that “Israel has no greater friend than America” and that he was committed to working with U.S. President Donald Trump to advance peace efforts with the Palestinians and with the broader Arab world.

Netanyahu made the pledge in a speech via satellite link from Jerusalem to the largest U.S. Continue Reading »

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| March 19, 2017
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Netanyahu, 90-member business delegation arrive in China to boost cooperation

 

“Israel is a country in high demand, as you can see from my past visits to Washington, Moscow and other countries and now China,” PM Netanyahu said at Ben Gurion Int’l Airport, as he boarded his plane to Beijing.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in China on Sunday for a three-day visit aimed at boosting economic ties and marking 25 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mrs Sara Netanyahu are welcomed by an honor guard upon arrival in China. – Photo: Haim Zach/GPO

Netanyahu is scheduled to meet in Beijing with the country’s three senior-most officials: President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Li Keqiang, and China’s parliamentary head Zhang Dejiang. Continue Reading »

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| March 8, 2017
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Watch: Israel’s PM Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

 

“Israel is [a] country of great creative genius, and the priority has to be the safety and security of the people of Israel. If you can guarantee that, maybe there is some way of also giving autonomy [statehood] to the Palestinians,” Boris Johnson said shortly after his meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

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| March 6, 2017
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PM Netanyahu thunderstruck to hear street named after Yasser Arafat

 

After learning that WAZE displayed a street named after the late PLO chief in the northern Arab town of Jatt, PM Netanyahu vowed to have the street renamed.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

“I heard about the IDF veterans’ efforts to combat the decision to name a street in the Jatt local council after [former PLO leader] Yasser Arafat,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. “I spoke to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri about it, and he told me that his ministry never approved such a move. No street in the State of Israel shall be named after Arafat — we will take action to have the sign removed. Continue Reading »

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| February 22, 2017
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In Australia Netanyahu applauds Trump for taking strong stand against antisemitism (VIDEO)

 

WATCH Prime Minister Netanyahu, who started his 5-day official visit to Australia on Wednesday, among other things tells a packed synagogue in Sydney that the Golan Heights “will never go back to Syria, it will always remain a part of Israel.”

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SYDNEY — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday commended US President Donald Trump for taking “a strong stand against antisemitism.”

Netanyahu, who started a five day-visit to Australia on Wednesday, made the remarks to loud applause in a packed synagogue in Sydney regarding comments Trump made the day before about a resurgence of antisemitism in the US. Continue Reading »

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| February 21, 2017
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Israel’s PM thanks U.S. Amb. to the UN Nikki Haley’s “unequivocal support for Israel”

 

WATCH U.S. Amb. to the UN Nikki Haley’s adamantly pro-Israeli speech regarding the UN’s outrageously built-in double standard against Israel, that even had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharing the video with a personal ‘thank you’ on his Facebook page.

By Itamar Eichner

 

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s pro-Israeli words spoken against the UN have swept over the web. Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared the video and posted on Facebook: “US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, thank you for your unequivocal support for Israel! It’s time to put an end to the absurdity in the United Nations.” Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2017
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Netanyahu welcomes Chuck Norris then ‘dismisses’ bodyguards, as redundant

 

WATCH: Netanyahu jokes welcoming Chuck Norris into the Prime Minister’s Office saying, “Israel is strong, but it’s indestructible with you around.”
– Chuck Norris, “You’ll always have my support.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

Legendary Hollywood action star Chuck Norris was in Israel this week, as previously reported.

As expected, Norris met with his good friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while in Jerusalem.

Playing on popular Internet memes, Netanyahu joked, “Israel is strong, but it’s indestructible now” as Norris entered the room.

Netanyahu also jokingly dismissed his bodyguards, suggesting they weren’t needed with Norris around.

 

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| January 27, 2017
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PM Netanyahu confident Trump will change world’s attitude on Iranian threats

 

WATCH: PM Netanyahu’s address marked Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying that even as antisemitism is on the rise in Europe, the greatest hatred of the Jewish people and the Jewish State comes from Iran.

BY HERB KEINON, DANIELLE ZIRI

 

The world’s view of Iran is likely to change with US President Donald Trump in the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Thursday during a speech at Yad Vashem to the diplomatic corps.

PM Netanyahu addresses the Diplomatic Corps at an event hosted by Yad Vashem marking Int’l Day of Commemoration in memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.-

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| December 27, 2016
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Netanyahu cancels aid to Angola & Senegal after betrayal

 

After west African oil producer reneged on promise to abstain and then voted in favor of UNSC anti-Israel resolution condemning settlements, PM Netanyahu ends all aid to Angola, who by the way, occupies the province of Cabinda, who’s people have been fighting for independence since 1960.
(– Who strong-armed Angola to brake promise to Israel?)

By Itamar Eichner & Eitan Goldstein

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce on Tuesday that Israel will suspend all development aid to the African nation of Angola following the latter’s support of a recent UN resolution condemning Israeli West Bank construction. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2016
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Netanyahu tells all visiting state leaders: Israel’s ready to begin direct negotiations with Abbas

 

view videoWATCH VIDEO: Arab countries are beginning to recognize that Israel wants peace with the Palestinians. “Everybody gets the message: Israel is ready for peace. Israel is not the obstacle to peace,” stated the prime minister. “Who gets this best? Arab states.”

By I24News Desk

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “never been more hopeful” about Israel, the Mideast, and “even” the United Nations, and is ready for direct negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, he said on Wednesday as he addressed the annual Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference.

Israel is in the midst of a historic revolution in its place among the nations, said the prime minister, as changes occur in the global economy and technology continues to develop. Continue Reading »

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