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Netherlands seeking extradition of former Nazi wanted for killing Jews

The Netherlands will use a new legal procedure to seek the extradition from Germany of an 88-year-old Dutchman who was jailed for killing Jewish prisoners at a Nazi transit camp, but escaped from prison in 1952.The extradition of former SS soldier Klaas Carel Faber has been hindered by a German law preventing extradition of German nationals for war crimes; though ...

Netanyahu’s cabinet votes to draft more ultra-Orthodox into IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to draft more members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox sector into performing military or national service.The proposal was approved by an overwhelming majority of 23-1, with one abstention.The cabinet vote came two days after Netanyahu announced that he intended to adopt the Israel Defense Forces’ stance with regard to incorporating ultra-Orthodox as ...

Netanyahu Tops JPost’s Annual List of Most Influential Jews

Even during their long sojourn in exile, the Jews left an indelible imprint on the world. From Maimonides to Spinoza, Freud to Marx, Salk to Einstein, Jews have influenced every aspect of life.But it took Zionism and the birth of the State of Israel to thrust the Jew back onto the world stage not as idea-maker, but as political player. ...

Netanyahu to US Jews: Direct talks with PA soon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he thinks direct talks with the Palestinians will begin very soon and he predicted they will be “very, very tough.” Before flying to Washington for a meeting with President Barack Obama, Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that the “time has come” for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to get ready to meet directly with ...

Netanyahu to travel next week to London and Paris

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he will meet next week with his British and French counterparts, in what some see as an attempt to counter support for a Palestinian initiative to set the parameters of a peace deal.Netanyahu’s trip comes after Britain, France and Germany tried two weeks ago to base a final Israeli-Palestinian peace deal on the ...

Netanyahu to Russia: Pressure Hamas to free Shalit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday asked Russia to exert influence on Hamas to bring about the immediate release of captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. In talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Netanyahu asked Moscow to take advantage of its relations with the Islamist group to push for a prisoner swap deal that would free Shalit after ...

Netanyahu to Receive Historic Letter That Saved 50,000 Jews

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will receive a copy of a historic letter written by Dimitar Peshev, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and Minister of Justice during World War II, who is credited with rescuing approximately 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust.The letter will be handed to Netanyahu by Petar Paunov, Mayor of Peshev’s hometown of Kyustendil in Bulgaria, according to the Russian-language Darik Radio.While the news website ...

Netanyahu to Jewish Agency: Find Solution for Non-Orthodox Women at Western Wall

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Jewish Agency to find a solution for non-Orthodox Jewish female groups wishing to pray at one of Judaism’s holiest sites.An official said Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, to look into the matter. The official spoke anonymously according to government regulations.Last week Israeli police detained women ...

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Go After Those Who Harass Women In Public; Says Majority Of Charedim Respect Law

Israel will act against anyone who harasses women in the public sphere, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, one day after a massive protest against gender segregation took place in the central Israel town of Beit Shemesh.Referring to rising tensions over gender segregation in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, Netanyahu said at the Knesset on Wednesday that Israel will act against ...

Netanyahu, ready to uproot more Jews, comes under heavy fire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under heavy fire from his right-wing constituency and member of his own Likud Party this week after suggesting he was ready to uproot more Jews from the biblical Land of Israel in the name of “peace.”In a nationally-broadcast Knesset speech on Monday, Netanyahu laid out the main points of the peace proposal he will ...

Netanyahu orders Israeli politicians, security forces to thwart new Gaza flotilla

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his inner cabinet on Wednesday to continue diplomatic efforts to thwart an upcoming Gaza aid flotilla, a statement said on Wednesday, adding that the premier also instructed Israel’s security forces to prepare for the flotilla’s possible arrival.The flotilla, which was expected to set sail in May, will now probably only embark in mid-June, its organizers ...

Netanyahu on Remembrance Day: Peace Requires Strong Defense

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid tribute to Israel’s fallen soldiers on Sunday evening, at a ceremony marking the beginning of Remembrance Day, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Netanyahu recalled his own experience with bereavement, when his brother Yoni fell during the daring rescue of the hijacked Israelis in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976.“My brothers and sisters, I am all too familiar with ...