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Jul
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Explainer: Can Netanyahu regain Israel’s premiership?

Explainer: Can Netanyahu regain Israel’s premiership?

WORLD
ISRAEL called a November election after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stepped aside and parliament was dissolved, while former premier Benjamin Netanyahu promised he would return to power. Here is a quick look at why Israel is holding yet another election and what the chances are of a Netanyahu comeback: HOW DID WE GET HERE ... AGAIN? Bennett and his partner Yair Lapid, who at midnight will assume the role of caretaker prime minister, took power last June, ending the record 12-year tenure of Netanyahu along with almost three years of political stalemate. Bennett and Lapid wrangled up a broad range…
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Apr
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Israel, West Bank on edge after more bloodshed

Israel, West Bank on edge after more bloodshed

WORLD
JEFFREY HELLER ISRAELI forces killed two Palestinian women after one ran towards troops and the other stabbed a soldier in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israeli security officials said. The bloodshed follows a string of deadly Arab attacks in Israel. There have also been Israeli raids in and around the West Bank city of Jenin, a militant stronghold, against what Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called "a new wave of terrorism". No weapon was found on the body of the woman shot in Bethlehem after she ignored soldiers' calls and warning fire to stop approaching, the Israeli military…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel able to ‘act alone’ against Iran after ship attack, PM says

Israel able to ‘act alone’ against Iran after ship attack, PM says

WORLD
PRIME Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel was capable of acting alone against Iran, after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken predicted a "collective" response to an attack last week on an Israeli-managed tanker off the coast of Oman. "We are working to rally the world, but at the same time we also know to act alone," Bennett said on Tuesday during a tour of Israel's northern border. Israel, the United States and Britain have blamed Iran for the incident, a charge Tehran has denied.
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Jul
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel’s National Security Council looking into NSO spyware allegations -source

Israel’s National Security Council looking into NSO spyware allegations -source

WORLD
DAN WILLIAMS ISRAEL has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to look into growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, an Israeli source has said, while adding that an export review was unlikely. The team is headed by Israel's National Security Council, which answers to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and has broader areas of expertise than the Defence Ministry, which oversees exports of NSO Group's Pegasus software, the source said. "This event is beyond the Defence Ministry purview," the source said, referring to potential diplomatic blowback after prominent media reports…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Sisi’s first call with Israel PM

Sisi’s first call with Israel PM

NEWS
EGYPT’S President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Israel's new leader yesterday that it was important to follow through on Egypt-backed efforts to rebuild the Gaza Strip following last month's fighting there, the Egyptian presidency said. In his first phone call with Naftali Bennett since Bennett took office two weeks ago, Sisi stressed Egypt's support for efforts to reach a fair and permanent solution between the Palestinians and Israelis, Egypt's presidency said. Sisi stressed the importance of supporting an Egyptian drive to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after last month's fighting between Israel and the Hamas Islamist group which controls it. A…
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Jun
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Netanyahu out, Bennett in as Israel marks end of an era

Netanyahu out, Bennett in as Israel marks end of an era

WORLD
JEFFREYHELLER and MAAYAN LUBELL BENJAMIN Netanyahu's record 12-year run as Israel's prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new "government of change" led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an improbable scenario few Israelis could have imagined. But the razor-thin 60-59 vote of confidence in a coalition of left-wing, centrist, right-wing and Arab parties with little in common except for a desire to unseat Netanyahu, only underscored its likely fragility. Addressing parliament before Bennett was sworn in, a combative Netanyahu said: "If we are destined to go into the opposition, we will do so with our heads held high until…
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Jun
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Netanyahu, battling for political life, attacks deal to unseat him

Netanyahu, battling for political life, attacks deal to unseat him

WORLD
JEFFREY HELLER ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fought back against an agreement by his political opponents for a government of left-wing, centrist and right-wing parties aimed at unseating him. Netanyahu, facing the prospect of an end to his 12-year run as premier, said on Twitter "all legislators elected by votes from the right must oppose this dangerous left-wing government", and he targeted historic Arab participation in the coalition. The right-wing leader mounted the social media attack the day after centrist politician Yair Lapid's announcement, about 35 minutes before a Wednesday night deadline, that he had succeeded in forming a…
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Jun
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel’s ‘magician’ Netanyahu faces final curtain after record run

Israel’s ‘magician’ Netanyahu faces final curtain after record run

WORLD
JEFFREY HELLER  LONG the familiar face of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has held on as prime minister for more than a decade, clinging to power through a criminal indictment and four elections in the past two years alone. Now, the question is whether the 71-year-old Netanyahu, dubbed "the magician" by his admirers, has any cards left up his sleeve. After years in which he exerted near-complete hegemony over Israeli politics, an emerging broad coalition of opponents could be about to unseat him. "Fraud of the century," an indignant Netanyahu declared on Sunday, after fellow right-winger Naftali Bennett turned against him and…
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May
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Netanyahu’s grip on power loosens as rival moves to unseat him

Netanyahu’s grip on power loosens as rival moves to unseat him

WORLD
JEFFERY HELLER FAR-right party leader Naftali Bennett threw his crucial support on Sunday behind a "unity government" in Israel to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what would be the end of a political era. Bennett's decision, which he announced in a televised address, could enable opposition chief Yair Lapid to put together a coalition of right-wing, centrist and leftist parties and hand Netanyahu his first election defeat since 1999. Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh Atid party that finished second to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in an inconclusive March 23 national ballot, faces a Wednesday deadline from Israel's president to…
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May
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel’s odd couple: rivals who could topple Netanyahu together

Israel’s odd couple: rivals who could topple Netanyahu together

WORLD
MAAYAN LUBELL ONE is a centre-left avowed secularist who says the Palestinians should get a state. The other is a firebrand of the religious hard right who wants to annex most of the occupied West Bank. Meet the men from Israel's opposite political poles who could topple Benjamin Netanyahu. If Israel's longest serving prime minister is brought down after four inconclusive elections in two years, it will not be because his opponents rallied the nation behind a new political programme. It will be because two men who agree on little else have decided to make a deal. After Netanyahu failed…
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