Optimum News 12 Newsday.com MSG Varsity Explore LI AM New York Optimum Autos Optimum Homes

Benjamin Netanyahu

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 19: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting with Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit (2ndR) on May 19, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Newsday's coverage

  • Israeli PM criticized for installing bed on plane

    -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the Israeli leader said.Netanyahu found himself facing   Read more »

  • Israel groups say PM halts new settlement building

    -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stopped approving new construction in West Bank settlements, two prominent Israeli activist groups said Tuesday, in what could be an attempt to clear the way for renewed peace talks with the Palestinians.Anti-settlement   Read more »

  • At least 42 Syrian soldiers dead after Israeli airstrike

    to discuss covert military operations.Israel on Monday signaled a return to "business as usual," with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in China for a scheduled visit.Syria and its patron Iran have hinted at possible retribution for the strikes, though   Read more »

  • Israeli PM doesn't rule out helping Syrian rebels

    Thursday that the decision of whether to intervene in the neighboring civil war is a "complicated question."Although Benjamin Netanyahu made no clear commitments, his comments indicated that he is at least considering a shift away from two years of neutrality   Read more »

  • Support grows for liberal area at Israel holy site

    be a symbol of unity among the Jewish people, and not one of discord and strife."The plan will be presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and must be approved by Israel's government before it is implemented. Netanyahu's office had no immediate comment.Women   Read more »

More newsday coverage »

Around the web

More from around the web »

advertisement | advertise on newsday

About Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (help·info) (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ‎, Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, born 21 October 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is Chairman of the Likud Party. As leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister of Israel to be born after the State of Israel's foundation. He was Finance Minister of Israel until 9 August 2005, having resigned in protest at the Gaza Disengagement Plan advocated by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Netanyahu retook the Likud leadership on 20 December 2005. As of December 2006, he became the official leader of the Opposition in the Knesset and Chairman of the Likud Party. In August 2007 he retained the Likud leadership by beating Moshe Feiglin in party elections.

from Wikipedia

advertisement | advertise on newsday