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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Netanyahu pledges to counter racism against Ethiopians

JTAPublished March 15, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting with Ethiopian community leaders said he was committed to stopping racism. “I asked for this meeting because I am committed to the Ethiopian immigrant public," Netanyahu said at Wednesday's...

On Iran, Auschwitz is relevant

By Rafael Medoff, JTAPublished March 12, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the Holocaust in his March 5 speech at AIPAC for the same reason that President Shimon Peres referred to it in his speech the day before and President Obama alluded to it in his news...

At AIPAC conference, Iran will top agenda

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished February 29, 2012

WASHINGTON—There will be the speeches, and they will resound like an echo. And then there will be the talk. When President Barack Obama speaks on March 4 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Arab Spring inflating Israel’s defense costs, Bibi tells U.S. Jewish leaders

JTAPublished February 20, 2012

JERUSALEM -- The Islamistization of the Arab Spring movement has placed "enormous pressure" on Israeli defenses and progress in the peace process, Benjamin Netanyahu told American Jewish leaders. The Israeli prime minister, speaking Sunday night to the...

Netanyahu to address AIPAC as Iran speculation intensifies

JTAPublished February 5, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will address the AIPAC policy conference as speculation grows about how the United States and Israel will tackle Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Netanyahu's formal Twitter feed...

Netanyahu wins Likud chairmanship for fifth time

JTAPublished February 1, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was victorious in the Likud Party chairmanship race, though his only challenger garnered about 24 percent of the vote. Netanyahu won about 75 percent of the vote in Tuesday's polling, about the same percentage...

Netanyahu, Abbas pessimistic about continued talks

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

JERUSALEM—The possibility of continuing peace talks with the Palestinians is "not particularly good," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. We "hope that the Palestinians will stay in the talks in order to reach, in the end, concrete negotiations...

Republicans—and Democrats—pitch to Florida Jews

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished January 25, 2012

WASHINGTON-Barack Obama won't show up on the vote tallies after polls close in Florida's Republican primary on Jan. 31, but the president's supporters already are waging a fight for the Sunshine State. Democrats are rolling out a campaign to rival any...

Bibi tables talk on extending law delaying military service

JTAPublished January 18, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed discussion of extending a law for five more years that allows yeshiva students to delay their military service. Netanyahu said in a statement issued from his office Wednesday that he...

Netanyahu: Israel was ready to extend freeze

JTA REPORTPublished January 3, 2011

JERUSALEM — Israel was prepared to extend a West Bank construction freeze, but the United States withdrew the idea, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "The United States asked us to consider extending the freeze by three months, and the...

Netanyahu updates Cabinet on U.S. settlement freeze proposal

Published November 15, 2010

JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu said he'd present to his Cabinet an expected U.S. offer of incentives to freeze Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. After meeting last week in New York with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for seven...

Netanyahu orders new loyalty oath, including Jews

JTA REPORTPublished October 19, 2010

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's justice minister to redraft the loyalty oath amendment to include Jews. Netanyahu on Monday said the new amendment to the Citizenship Act, which requires a pledge of allegiance by non-Jews...

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