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Benjamin Netanyahu
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
Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage ADL’s Never Is Now summit at Javits Center on March 3, 2025 in New York City. Photo: Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League
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My Take | Cancelled HKU event offers a chance to address fate of Gazans

Antisemitism is a heinous form of racism, but the most pressing moral question of our time is whether Palestinians still have the right to exist.

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Netanyahu says strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

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Netanyahu’s move to fire security agency chief threatens new crisis in Israel

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Netanyahu seeks to oust Israel’s domestic security service chief

Israeli leader at odds with Shin Bet’s chief over the October 7 attack and possible links between employees in Netanyahu’s office and Qatar.

Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) director Ronen Bar. File photo: Reuters
United States

My Take | Is Donald Trump the real-life Manchurian candidate?

Internet speculation may be off the mark, but his tilt towards Moscow will enable Putin to prevail over Europe and regain leverage over China.

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Hamas armed wing says it will hand over bodies of 4 hostages ‘tonight’

Hamas has released hostages, and the bodies of four dead hostages, in large public ceremonies.

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Israeli PM orders ‘intensive’ West Bank operations after bus explosions

At least three empty buses exploded in Bat Yam, a city outside Tel Aviv on Thursday evening.

Forensics personnel inspect the remains of a destroyed bus. Photo: Reuters
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Hamas returns 4 Israeli bodies said to include a mother and her 2 children

Thursday’s handover could provide impetus for negotiations on the second stage of the ceasefire that have hardly begun.

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Hamas to hand over 4 bodies, including Bibas children, and 6 living hostages

The militants say Shiri Bibas and sons Ariel and Kfir were killed in an Israeli attack, but Israel says their deaths have not been confirmed.

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Middle East

Israel says army retreating from Lebanon, but for 5 outposts

Israel had been due to finalise its withdrawal by February 18, after it missed a January deadline.

Israeli military vehicles cross a cement barrier on the border between Israel and the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra on Monday. Photo: AFP
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‘We’re not clinging to power’: Hamas ready to stop governing Gaza to extend truce

This concession, announced by Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qasim, aims to fulfil one of Israel’s demands for a second phase of the truce.

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A Palestinian flag flutters among the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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Hamas to free hostages as planned to keep Gaza ceasefire from collapsing

The militant group had originally said it would stop freeing captives, leading Israel to threaten to return to war.

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Israel PM threatens to resume Gaza fighting if hostages not released Saturday

Netanyahu’s warning heightened fears that a fragile three-week-old Gaza ceasefire was on the verge of unravelling.

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Israel PM Netanyahu gives golden pager to Trump

The gift is said to symbolise a turning point in the war against Hezbollah, when Israel used exploding pagers against the Lebanese group.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, in 2020. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Saudi Arabia rejects Israel’s push for ties without Palestinian state

Riyadh’s rejection came swiftly after Israel’s PM said establishing formal relations ‘is not only feasible, I think it’s going to happen’.

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had affirmed the kingdom’s position in “a clear and explicit manner”, Riyadh’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS
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Funeral for assassinated Hezbollah leader Nasrallah set for February 23

Nasrallah was killed in September. Funeral confirmation came after ceasefire deal between Lebanese militant group and Israel was extended.

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

Israel its troops in southern Lebanon ‘fired warning shots to remove threats’ where ‘suspects were identified approaching the troops’.

This picture taken from Lebanon’s southern village of Shaqra on Saturday shows an Israeli army tank moving along a road on the outskirts of the village of Mais al-Jabal along the border with Israel in south Lebanon. Photo: AFP
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Hamas names four Israeli female soldier hostages to be freed in second swap

Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag will be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners under the Gaza ceasefire deal.

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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.

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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’.

Members of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas take part in a parade in Gaza as they celebrate a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel on Sunday. Photo: AP
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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.

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Children were among those cheering in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, the day a long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas was implemented. Photo: AFP
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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.

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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.

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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.

Colleagues and friends mourn over the body of freelance journalist Omar al-Derawi and other victims of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday. Photo: AP
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.

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

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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.

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