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The latest news on Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Israel politics news and updates.

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21 Oct 1949

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Israel's Prime Minister

last updated:

4 December, 2024

Donald Trump

Netanyahu hopes to meet Trump in Washington as soon as next week: US officials

Israel’s PM could be first foreign leader to meet Trump at White House since inauguration. India’s Modi also to meet Trump in US next month.

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Middle East

Lebanon says Israeli forces kill 22, wound 124 in south on pull-out deadline

27 Jan 2025 - 1:35AM

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas names four Israeli female soldier hostages to be freed in second swap

25 Jan 2025 - 1:36AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Can the Gaza ceasefire hold while Trump attempts to broker Middle East peace?

Analysts say the fragility of the truce agreement and escalating violence in the West Bank threaten US efforts to normalise Arab-Israel ties.

24 Jan 2025 - 1:22PMvideocam

President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an Abraham Accords Signing Ceremony at the White House on September 15, 2020. Photo: TNS

Israel-Gaza war

Gazans cheer as ceasefire between Israel and Hamas kicks off

‘I feel like at last I found some water to drink after getting lost in the desert for 15 months. I feel alive again’.

19 Jan 2025 - 7:36PM

Israel-Gaza war

Ceasefire begins, pausing devastating Israel-Gaza war

Many Gazans have now begun the journey home, while Israel waits for hostages due to be released by Hamas.

19 Jan 2025 - 9:23PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas accepted draft agreement for Gaza ceasefire, release of hostages: officials

The plan still needs to be submitted to the Israeli Cabinet for final approval.

14 Jan 2025 - 9:21PM

Supporters of Israeli hostages during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Biden pushes for immediate Gaza ceasefire in call with Netanyahu

US national security adviser says parties are very close to a deal to halt fighting, free hostages.

13 Jan 2025 - 4:00PM

Israel-Gaza war

At least 30 killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes

While stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume in Qatar, dozens of Gazans were also killed the previous day.

3 Jan 2025 - 9:25PM

Middle East

Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery, Israel hospital says

Medical procedure comes as Israeli PM, 75, manages multiple crises including the war in Gaza and his trial for alleged corruption.

30 Dec 2024 - 6:22AMvideocam

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on December 9. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s PM Netanyahu to undergo prostate removal surgery, his office says

Netanyahu on Wednesday was ‘diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement’, his office said.

29 Dec 2024 - 6:14AMvideocam

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / TNS

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu vows to act with ‘force, determination’ against Yemen’s Houthis

Israeli prime minister makes statement a day after a missile fired from Yemen fell in the Tel Aviv area, injuring 16 people.

23 Dec 2024 - 12:13PM

Middle East

Israel calls Syria its fourth front after rushing troops to the Golan

Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘central link in Iran’s axis of evil’ has fallen in Syria.

9 Dec 2024 - 7:06PMvideocam

Middle East

Israel and Hezbollah trade fire, threatening Lebanon ceasefire

Hezbollah fired into an Israel-held area after multiple Israeli strikes in Lebanon since truce began.

3 Dec 2024 - 2:07PM

Israeli troops move between destroyed houses, in the south Lebanon village of Meiss El-Jabal, as they leave Lebanon on their way back into Israel. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

UN halts aid shipments through main Israel-Gaza crossing after looting

Kerem Shalom has been the main artery for aid to Gaza since the Rafah crossing with Egypt was shut in May.

2 Dec 2024 - 10:06AM

An Israeli soldier near the Kerem Shalom crossing, which has been the main artery for aid to Gaza since the Rafah crossing with Egypt was shut in May. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

US hits Israeli settler group with sanctions over West Bank violence

US Treasury sanctioned Amana, the largest organisation involved in illegal settlement development in the West Bank, and its subsidiary Binyanei Bar Amana.

19 Nov 2024 - 12:03PM

Israel-Gaza war

Deadly strikes on Gaza, Lebanon as Netanyahu and Trump speak

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with President-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days.

11 Nov 2024 - 4:02PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza

Israel says the agency, known as UNRWA, has been infiltrated by Hamas and is ‘part of the problem’. UNRWA denies the allegations.

4 Nov 2024 - 8:17PMvideocam

A Palestinian boy holds an Israeli artillery shell, found while sorting through rubbish amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Israel and Hamas signal openness to talks on Gaza war

The war in Gaza has raged for more than a year, since Hamas fighters raided southern Israel.

25 Oct 2024 - 5:05PMvideocam

Middle East

Blasts hit Beirut as Israel warns of strikes on Hezbollah finance arm

Israel says it will attack ‘infrastructure’ of US-sanctioned Al-Qard Al-Hassan, calling on people to move away from its facilities.

21 Oct 2024 - 9:04AM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel PM says Hezbollah will pay heavy price for trying to kill him with drone

The prime minister says the attack on his family home in Caesarea was a ‘grave mistake’.

20 Oct 2024 - 8:22PMvideocam

Police are seen at the site of a drone attack in Caesarea, Israel, on Saturday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar killed by Israeli troops

18 Oct 2024 - 12:35PM

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Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu remains confident of victory on anniversary of October 7 attack

Israel holds memorials as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to press on with military objectives.

8 Oct 2024 - 12:36PM

Lebanon

Protests across Asia mark year of Israel-Gaza conflict

7 Oct 2024 - 6:36PM

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu tells Iran nowhere in Middle East out of Israel’s reach

‘There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country,’ the Israeli PM said in a video addressing Iranians.

30 Sep 2024 - 11:54PM

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu bolsters government with opposition lawmaker Saar

Israeli prime minister strengthens his hold on office by adding a rival to his cabinet.

30 Sep 2024 - 12:30PMvideocam

Gideon Saar will serve as a minister without portfolio and serve in the Security Cabinet Photo: Reuters

China-Middle East relations

China urges Israel to ‘de-escalate’ after Hezbollah leader killed in Lebanon

Beijing warns against travel to region as Middle East tensions flare following Hassan Nasrallah’s death in Israeli air attack on Beirut.

29 Sep 2024 - 8:45PM

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Israel

Netanyahu tells UN Israel seeks peace but is fighting for its life, and winning

The Israeli PM spoke as his nation continued to strike Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, amid fears the attacks could flare into an all-out regional war.

27 Sep 2024 - 10:51PMvideocam

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