www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-quot-bibi-quot-netanyahu Holding a placard that read “We will not cease to fight for our country,” his friend, Oren Gery, 26, added, “Change has to come from the bottom up.”While the fury reflects a multitude of grievances, they have converged around one man: a prime minister who is a defendant in a corruption trial is now blamed for a colossal failure in dealing with the health and economic crises caused by the virus pandemic, and is resorting to what critics call The public revolt signals yet another stunning turnaround for Mr. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, who has managed to cling to his seat through three touch-and-go elections since April 2019.Above all, a prevailing sense of chaos pervades the government’s handling of the recent resurgence of the virus, prompting growing criticism even from the heart of Mr. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party.“There’s a disconnect between the government and the public and the local authorities,” Haim Bibas, the Likud mayor of the central city of Modiin and the powerful chairman of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, said in an interview on Friday. They constitute a devastating legacy for the United States as well as for Israelis and Palestinians alike. The Palestinians aren’t even invited. Yair Netanyahu (Hebrew: יאיר נתניהו ; born 26 July 1991) is the son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is an online activist. Minimal advertising will continue to display on The Times of Israel newsletters. Argument: The Palestinians aren’t even invited. Yair and Avner Netanyahu at a memorial service for Yoni Netanyahu at Mt. Without an agreement by an Aug. 25 deadline Parliament will automatically disperse, sending an election-weary populace back to the ballot box three months later.“The question is who will blink first,” said Ayelet Frish, an Israeli political consultant.The government, in the meantime, pushed through contentious legislation this week granting itself powers to decree emergency regulations to fight the coronavirus,In a sign of growing infighting and dysfunction, Israel Katz, the Likud finance minister, and Miki Zohar, the Likud whip and coalition chairman, publicly accused each other of advocating for the opening up of businesses owned by their relatives.Even a plan hastily announced by Mr. Netanyahu in mid-July No payments have been made yet. He is related to Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna (the Vilna Gaon) on his paternal side. African nations are fighting to repatriate their artifacts, Washington imposes sanctions on a Chinese paramilitary group, and the United States has a new opportunity to rethink its visa policies.Ulrich Beck was a prophet of uncertainty—and the most important intellectual for the pandemic and its aftermath.Is the guilty verdict in the prime minister’s corruption trial a sign of hope or business as usual?One year on from mass protests, Puerto Ricans are still questioning how to refresh the island’s relationship with the United States.Indeed, on the very day of the White House ceremony, Trump’s impeachment trial was being conducted in the Senate, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who already had been Apart from Trump’s one-sided and dead-on-arrival Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, the alliance’s hold over U.S. foreign policy has manifested itself in several other key regional policy decisions: the decision to assassinate Iran’s Qassem Suleimani, the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the moving of the The Trump-Netanyahu compact has shaken the fundamentals of U.S. policies, forged out of decades of bipartisanship-driven consensus-building measures designed to arbitrate the Middle East’s longest-running conflict.