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9/20/2023 10:56:07 PM
President Joe Biden raised “hard issues,” including protecting the “checks and balances” in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing Netanyahu to find a compromise on a planned judicial overhaul that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington.
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9/20/2023 5:49:30 PM
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in New York Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said "ties between the two countries were improving".
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9/20/2023 1:53:56 PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to have his long-coveted meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday — bringing together the two leaders for the first time since the Israeli leader took office at the helm of his country’s far-right government late last year.
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9/19/2023 11:00:39 AM
As President Joe Biden prepares to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week in New York, a new poll finds that while Americans generally view Israel as a partner or ally, many question whether his far-right government shares American values.
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9/14/2023 11:31:53 AM
With attention focused on its contentious judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken unprecedented steps toward cementing Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank — perhaps permanently.
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9/12/2023 7:13:14 PM
Israel’s Supreme Court heard the first challenge Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put it on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
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9/10/2023 8:47:05 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to the United States this month, his office said Sunday, but is not expected to meet with President Joe Biden amid months of tensions.
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9/6/2023 10:31:23 AM
President Joe Biden nominated former Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to be US ambassador to Israel, the White House announced late on Tuesday.
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9/3/2023 12:59:59 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country's African migrants.
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8/30/2023 10:44:08 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday thanked authorities in Saudi Arabia -- with which his country has no formal ties -- for their "warm attitude" following an emergency aircraft landing in Jeddah.
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8/26/2023 1:51:00 PM
The US slammed recent comments by Israeli Minister of Public Security Itamar Ben Gvir prioritizing settlers' rights over Palestinians' in the occupied West Bank, characterizing them as "inflammatory" and "racist," even as Israeli PM Netanyahu threw his weight behind the embattled minister.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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8/17/2023 9:16:33 PM
Never before in the history of US-Israeli relations had Washington ever described any Israeli action as terrorist.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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8/16/2023 8:56:00 AM
Reports of an imminent Saudi-Israeli peace deal promoted by Washington are probably premature
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8/14/2023 4:01:06 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday cancelled a planned vacation and instead held an urgent meeting with top brass to assess military readiness amid threats by reservists to refuse to serve in protest of judicial reform and other government policies, according to Israeli media.
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8/12/2023 9:34:24 PM
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday in the latest protest against the hard-right government's controversial judicial reform plans that opponents see as a threat to democracy.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/3/2023 9:33:00 AM
If the Saudi government normalises relations with Israel in the absence of a proper solution to the Palestinian issue, this will lead to an unrecognisable and more unstable Middle East.
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7/30/2023 10:54:07 PM
Yuli Edelstein, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee and a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, told Israel's Army Radio that it is too early to talk about a normalization deal in the works.
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7/27/2023 1:02:18 PM
UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday called on Israel to heed those demonstrating for "the defence of democracy and fundamental freedoms" in the face of controversial judicial reforms.
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7/25/2023 7:27:40 PM
Thousands of Israeli doctors walked out of work, labor leaders threatened a general strike and senior justices rushed home from a trip abroad Tuesday, a day after the government approved a law weakening the country's Supreme Court that critics say will erode the system of checks and balances.
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7/24/2023 2:30:23 PM
Israel's hard-right government was planning Monday to push through parliament a key element of its controversial judicial revamp.
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