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After Sacking Lapid & Livni, Israel’s PM Receives Fiji’s President in Jerusalem

Prior to meeting PM Netanyahu, the Fijian president began his visit in the Golan Heights inspecting his country’s UN peacekeeping troops, who this past summer had been kidnapped by Al-Nusra terrorists.

By Moshe Cohen

 

Fijian President Frank Bainimarama began a three day visit to Israel on Monday ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, after the latter fired key ministers and sent Israel to snap elections.

Fiji President Frank Bainimarama. - Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

First Fiji President, Frank Bainimarama – Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

Bainimarama, who was elected in September, is the first democratically elected president in Fiji’s history. The country has just come off a long period of military dictatorship. Continue Reading »