Israeli Prime Minister

Former Israeli Prime Minister Indicted For Corruption

AP | By AMY TEIBEL | Posted 03.05.2012

JERUSALEM -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on new corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of ...

Israel's Prime Minister Aims To Defuse Growing Housing Protests

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 09.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Thousands of young protesters have set up sprawling tent camps in Israeli cities, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesd...

Israeli Prime Minister's Son Causes Facebook Ruckus With Arab, Muslim Posts

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 08.24.2011

JERUSALEM — The Israeli prime minister's 19-year-old son – a military spokesman – posted derisive comments about Arabs and Muslims o...

Jennifer Bendery

Carney: Obama's Proposal "Not Some Radical New Departure" From Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney struggled Friday to put a positive spin on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejection ...

The Arab Press' Nazification of Israeli Leaders

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Abraham H. Foxman

The use of such Nazi imagery serves a dual purpose: It trivializes the actual events of the Holocaust while labeling Israel's actions against the Palestinians as "Nazi-like."

Ghosts of Israel's Past and Future

Sami Moubayed | Posted 05.25.2011

Sami Moubayed

If Israel's crime is extending a ban on the release of its archives, the Arab world's crime is that they have no archives at all to show the world what the real story of the Middle East was after 1948.

Ariel Sharon Home Return Planned Nearly 5 Years After Stroke

Posted 05.25.2011

Nearly five years after he suffered a near-fatal stroke, former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon may finally be returned from the hospital to be cared for...

Netanyahu Defends Israel Settlements Construction After Obama's Criticism

Posted 05.25.2011

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the renewed international uproar over new settlements in a contested part of Jerusalem one day aft...

Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily'

Posted 05.25.2011

A newly released video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could add some additional strain to the sometimes tense relationship between him a...

Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Sharmine Narwani

Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.

Obama Expected To Moderate Meeting Between Netanyahu, Abbas

foxnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama is expected to moderate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in late Se...

Benjamin Netanyahu: A Man Shaped By His Family

GlobalPost | C.M. Sennott | Posted 05.25.2011

In the land of the biblical patriarchs, the stories of fathers and sons matter. And the story of the Netanyahu family is something as ancient as Le...

ISRAELI ELECTION RESULTS: Both Livni, Netanyahu Declare Victory

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

***UPDATE Feb 11 12:05AM*** AP reports: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line rival Benjamin Netanyahu both claimed victory Tuesday in Israel's p...

Elect Livni, Not Netanyahu, to Keep Peace in Reach for Israel

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.25.2011

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Positioned to win his old job back, Netanyahu's appointment as prime minister is a likely disaster for an already elusive peace process.

Israel's Livni Calls On Olmert To Step Down

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday called on the country's embattled prime minister to step down immediately in light ...

Olmert: Israel Must Withdraw From West Bank

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Israel will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Ministe...

Palestinians Reject West Bank Deal From Israeli Prime Minister

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusal...

Olmert's Political Turmoil Could be Chance for Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

Ray Hanania

Olmert could not be more disliked than he already is. But in one quick move to strike a real deal with Abbas and the Palestinians on a peace accord, he could redeem himself.

Barak: Labor Supports Dissolving Israeli Knesset If Olmert Does Not Resign

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that his Labor Party will support dissolving Israel's parliament if Prime Minister...

Bush, Olmert Meet To Discuss Iran, Mideast Peace In Washington

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A corruption scandal engulfing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was pushed into the background Wednesday as the beleaguered Israe...

Olmert Should Resign: Ehud Barack

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Israel's powerful defense minister on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down amid a burgeoning corruption scand...