Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett: Time to annex parts of West Bank
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – Naftali Bennett, the leader of Israel’s Jewish Home party, has had a few headaches recently. Earlier this week,…
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Trudeau and Netanyahu meet for the first time in Paris, also Putin
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time on November 39 near Paris where both are attending the…
Disagreements behind them, Obama and Netanyahu get down to business
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – It took agreeing to set aside differences on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime…
Canada to reprise role as ‘honest broker’ in Mideast, new foreign affairs minister says
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada’s just-elected Liberal government will stop making Israel a partisan issue, the country’s new foreign affairs minister said. Stephane Dion, a former…
Netanyahu congratulates Canada’s Trudeau amid expected ‘tone change’
TORONTO (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Canada’s prime minister designate, Justin Trudeau, in a telephone call affirming the friendship between the two…