In the UK, the Jewish National Fund and more than 280 "concerned" Jews, including the religious head of the Reform Movement, clashed this week over the charity's invitation to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman, the Head of the far right Yisrael Beiteinu Party, is due in the UK next week to give a talk to JNF members and meet Foreign Secretary William Hague.
“They not only come out to protest when someone whose politics they disagree with, like Avigdor Lieberman, comes to visit,” he told Arutz Sheva. “They don't come out to support Israeli groups or politicians you would expect a leftist group to agree wit
Diaspora Jews should support Israel’s government regardless of its political complexion, according to its controversial Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman. Speaking at an event hosted by the Jewish National Fund in London on Tuesday evening, Mr ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman remains skeptical about reaching an agreement with Iran on its nuclear ambitions. "While sanctions on Iran have an impact, it is not enough of an impact to bring a real chance in the situation," Lieberman said.
THE JEWISH National Fund and more than 280 "concerned" Jews, including the religious head of the Reform Movement, clashed this week over the charity's invitation to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman, the head of the far right Yisrael ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said he is unfazed by the Knesset Ethics Committee decision to reprimand him for instructing his Yisrael Beytenu faction to boycott a committee chaired by MK Ahmed Tibi. Lieberman says that "committee became ...
Friends at any cost: Israel is happy to welcome an Anti-Semite and nazi sympathiser to Israel.Tony Greenstein looks at whats going on here. Full text at link. That the Lithuanian government should commemorate the memory of its quisling Prime Minister is ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met on Tuesday in London with Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague. During the meeting the two ministers discussed bilateral issues, the continued strengthening of bilateral cooperation between Britain and Israel ...
LONDON - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday to a Jewish audience in London that he expects Jewish communities around the world to support whatever Israeli government is in power, regardless of its views. Lieberman who was speaking at an event ...
LONDON - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday to a Jewish audience in London that he expects Jewish communities around the world to support whatever Israeli government is in power, regardless of its views. Lieberman who was speaking at an event ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that he does not regret statements he made about MK Ahmed Tibi despite having been reprimanded by the Ethics Committee. Lieberman had called not to cooperate with a Knesset Committee headed by Tibi on the ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Austria's Foreign Ministry renounced a statement by the country's defense minister in which he called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's participation in the government "unbearable." "His statements do not reflect ...
Austria’s Defense Minister Norbert Darabos has launched an attack on Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, describing him as “unbearable” in an interview due to appear on Sunday. Darabos told the Sunday edition of Die Presse newspaper that ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s visit to London this week is causing a furor within the local Jewish community. While one of the main pro-Israel organizations in Britain, the local branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), will be hosting ...
LONDON - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's visit to London this week is causing a furor within the local Jewish community. While one of the main pro-Israel organizations in Britain, the local branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), will be hosting an ...
LONDON - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's visit to London this week is causing a furor within the local Jewish community. While one of the main pro-Israel organizations in Britain, the local branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), will be hosting an ...
Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos has launched an unprecedented verbal assault against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, saying in an interview due to be published on Sunday that his presence in Israel's cabinet was "unbearable." In an interview ...
Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos launched an unprecedented verbal assault against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, saying in an interview due to be published on Sunday that his presence in Israel's cabinet was "unbearable." In an interview to ...
Austria's defense minister has called Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman "unbearable" because of his insistence on hawkish policies regarding the Mideast peace process and Iran.
Austria’s defense minister has called Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman “unbearable” because of his insistence on hawkish policies regarding the Mideast peace process and Iran. Sunday newspaper Die Presse quoted Norbert Darabos ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Austria's defense minister called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's participation in the government "unbearable." In an interview published Sunday in the Austrian daily Die Presse, Norbert Darabos said "honestly ...
Austria's Defense Minister Norbert Darabos has launched an attack on Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, describing him as "unbearable" in an interview due to appear on Sunday. Darabos told the Sunday edition of Die Presse newspaper that Lieberman ...
Responding to the reported optimism among Western officials over the talks with Iran next week on limiting its nuclear program, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he was not as optimistic. “We have no fantasies on Iran's plans and its nuclear program.
Egypt is a greater threat to Israel than Iran, according to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman recently sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a document warning about the potential threat from Israel's southern border with Egypt. 'The Egyptian ...
Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman did not hide his discontent with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to join forces with Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz and form a unity government – in his absence. Lieberman was on an official visit to ...
VIENNA - Austria's defence minister has called Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman "unbearable" because of his insistence on hawkish policies regarding the Mideast peace process and Iran. Sunday newspaper Die Presse quoted Norbert ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been looking into running a joint Likud ticket with Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party in the general elections, Haaretz has learned. Netanyahu apparently fears the three main center-left parties ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is to leave Wednesday to visit Slovakia, where he will meet with the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. On Thursday, he will continue on to Prague, where he plans to sit with his Czech counterpart to sign a joint declaration.
His closest rival, Shelly Yacimovich (Labor ), got only 15 percent support. Next came Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu ) with nine percent, and finally Shaul Mofaz (Kadima ) with six percent. That is a blow to Mofaz, who has been presenting ...
His closest rival, Shelly Yacimovich (Labor), got only 15 percent support. Next came Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) with 9 percent, and finally Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) with 6 percent. That is a blow to Mofaz, who has been presenting himself as Netanyahu ...
But Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the fiercely secular Yisrael Beitenu Party, said there could be no "foot dragging" on the matter. Lieberman's plan to push legislation ending the exemptions helped spark the coalition crisis that resulted ...
Rightist Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, is the major advocate for the replacement of the Tal Law. The party is working to enable the last-minute legislation of a proposal that works against the Tal law. Lieberman said ...
Rightist Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, is the major advocate for the replacement of the Tal Law. The party is working to enable the last-minute legislation of a proposal that works against the Tal law. Lieberman said ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) made a show of pushing to nullify the Tal Law on Thursday. "If the Ministerial Committee on Legislation does not approve the 'Equal Service' law," he said during a solidarity visit to the Sucker's Tent.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and company are selling Israel's citizens an illusion: they are positioning themselves as Rambo-heroes who will win against the world. They present Bibi's visit to the U.S. as a great success that has beaten down Obama ...
The recent visit by Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had two aspects. One covered negotiations on a variety of issues to help further enhance Cyprus-Israeli relations. The other, far more important, is the geostrategic dimension of ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party is also predicting major gains, anticipating that they could pass center-right Kadima and become the #2 party in the country. They will center their election on the goal of ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that if the country was to hold elections, they should be held as soon as possible. Speaking at a meeting of Yisrael Beiteinu MKs, Lieberman said that “we have decided that the best date is July 14.
Jerusalem (AsiaNews) – Israeli police yesterday recommended the indictment of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, on several charges, including money-laundering, graft, obstruction of justice and harassing a witness. Mr Liebermann issued a formal ...
unscathed." During a diplomatic visit to China, Avigdor Lieberman told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth: "If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia.
On April 28, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party said it was leaving the ruling coalition. The ultranationalist party is the second-largest member of the coalition, following Netanyahu's Likud. Parliamentary elections in Israel are ...
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Mr Netanyahu's hand has been forced by Avigdor Lieberman, his hawkish foreign minister and chair of his largest coalition partner – the nationalistic Yisrael Beytenu party – who announced on Saturday that he no longer felt obliged to the coalition ...
Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood homes, under the threat of court-ordered demolitions, will be the first test of the coalition, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters Wednesday. The new national unity coalition, formed hours after Prime Minister ...
A weekend poll published by the Ha’aretz newspaper showed 48 per cent of Israelis favoured Mr Netanyahu for prime minister, more than the combined total for those choosing Labour’s Shelly Yachimovich, Avigdor Lieberman or Shaul Mofaz, the new Kadima leader.
Guido Westerwelle said in a speech alongside his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman in Berlin that only the two-state solution “can guarantee Israel’s long-term security.” Westerwelle stressed in his speech late Monday that “time is pressing.”
JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will leave on Sunday for Berlin where he will meet senior officials and the head of the Jewish community in the German capital, his office said in a statement. Over the course of his two-day visit ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's party Yisrael Beitenu, Netanyahu's biggest coalition partner, would capture 13 seats, down from its current 15, the poll showed. The poll surveyed 500 people and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent. In an interview ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman left on Sunday for Berlin, where he will meet senior officials and the head of the Jewish community in the German capital. According to a statement by Lieberman’s office, over the course of his two-day visit he will be ...
Talk of an early vote, which has been in the air for several months, was revived by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman who on Saturday said his Yisrael Beitenu party had exhausted its commitment to the coalition in a dispute over the issue of ...
Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr has assigned on Wednesday 2/5/2012 Egypt's Ambassador in Tel Aviv to ask the Israeli Foreign Ministry about the latest remarks by its Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's on Egypt, the purpose behind them and their validity.
Netanyahu's primary coalition partner, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, is expected to introduce a new bill May 9 that would force Israeli Arabs and Ultra Orthodox Jews to serve in the Israeli army or participate in national service programs.
It is not being broken up by the threats of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, nor by pressure from Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Nor is fear of Shaul Mofaz or Shelly Yacimovich behind the Knesset's dissolution. Netanyahu tried to break up his ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Egypt presents more of a security danger than Iran. “We have to be prepared for all possibilities,” the Foreign Minister warned the Prime Minister. He suggested that ...
The primary point of contention in the Likud-led coalition is Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's insistence on immediately nullifying the Tal Law, which would abolish exemptions to IDF service received by Israel's hareidi community. Lieberman threatened ...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's former ambassador to Belarus was indicted for providing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with documents relating to an investigation against Lieberman. As part of a plea bargain, Ze'ev Ben Aryeh admitted to ...
Deputy Attorney General Noa Mishur on Monday responded to a letter from the Movement for Quality Government in Israel saying the investigation into Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be concluded in the coming weeks. "The hearings regarding Foreign ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting Baku amid reports that Tel Aviv may use Azerbaijan’s soil to launch a military attack against Iran.Lieberman arrived in Baku on Sunday to ...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak's deputy in the Independence party on Wednesday warned if Israelis didn't vote for their party that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of the Israel Bateinu party would be Israel's next Defense Minister. Trade and Labor Minister ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday that he will present a universal national service law to the Knesset in ten day's time. The law is to replace the Tal Law that regulated the exemption from service for hareidi yeshiva students. Lieberman ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will leave on Sunday for Azerbaijan and Switzerland where he will meet senior officials, his office said in a statement.In a two-day visit to Baku, Lieberman will be holding talks with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and other senior officials, it said.Leiberman will speak at a ceremony marking 20 years of Azeri-Israeli diplomatic ties and meet leaders of the local...
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting Azerbaijan for an official visit. Lieberman, who arrived Sunday evening in Iran's neighbor to the north, is scheduled to meet with the country's president and other high ...
JERUSALEM, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Monday evening that a decision concerning the criminal investigation into Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be reached in the coming weeks. Weinstein's statement came ...
Vladimir Putin will visit Israel next month in one of his first foreign visits as president, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. "The information we have received from Russia shows that the visit will take place in June," Lieberman said in an ...
Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told Cypriot President Demitris Christofias that President Mahmoud Abbas was not interested in a peace agreement, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. Responding to the remarks, the Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement ...
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, complained to Israeli radio that the cancellation was "not a good sign. We want to understand this as a trade dispute. I think that to turn a business dispute into a diplomatic dispute would be a mistake.
Netanyahu's powerful partner, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has threatened to bring down the government if the exemptions are extended. Despite these internal challenges, polls suggest Netanyahu and his hawkish allies would be re-elected.
Burkhalter met the controversial Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman earlier this week. He told Lieberman that “a just and lasting peace would be possible only through the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state with secure and ...
Foreign MInister Avigdor Lieberman will leave on Monday for Cyprus for meetings in Nicosia with President Demetris Christofias, Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis and Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Neoklis Sylikiotis. The deputy prime ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman left Israel, Sunday, on a trip to Azerbaijan and Switzerland. While in Baku, he will meet with government leaders and leaders of the Jewish community, among others, deliver a speech marking 20 years of diplomatic ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told reporters in the Azeri capital Baku that Israel does not have airbases in the country. "Such reports are from the sphere of science fiction and do not correspond with the truth," Lieberman said during a press conference.
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman denied a report that Israel was granted access to air bases in Azerbaijan. Lieberman made the remarks to reporters Monday in Baku, where he is meeting with high-ranking government officials.
AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will leave on Sunday for Azerbaijan and Switzerland where he will meet senior officials, his office said in a statement. In a two-day visit to Baku, Lieberman will be holding talks with Azeri ...
And Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Diskin should have resigned before the end of his term if he had so mistrusted the prime minister and defense minister.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is on an official visit to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to mark the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Israel and Azerbaijan, which is Turkey’s strategic ally in the region and also ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman took aim at the media and certain politicians Monday for “going off their rockers” over expelling Jews from five homes in the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El, located in Samaria and approximately 15 miles from Jerusalem.
most recently Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, this week. "Our relationship is very intense," Lieberman said. Azerbaijan's position between Iran and Russia has long made it a diplomatic "den of ...
most recently Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, this week. "Our relationship is very intense," Lieberman said. Azerbaijan's position between Iran and Russia has long made it a diplomatic "den of ...
most recently Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, this week. “Our relationship is very intense,” Lieberman said. Azerbaijan’s position between Iran and Russia has long made it a diplomatic ...
Israel marked twenty years of diplomatic relations between the Jewish state and Azerbaijan on Sunday, April 22, with an honorary diplomatic visit to the 95% Muslim Eurasian country, headed by Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
most recently Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, this week. “Our relationship is very intense,” Lieberman said. Azerbaijan’s position between Iran and Russia has long made it a diplomatic ...
most recently Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who visited Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, this week. “Our relationship is very intense,” Lieberman said. Azerbaijan’s position between Iran and Russia has long made it a diplomatic ...
Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter welcomed his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman in Bern on Tuesday. It was the first time since 2003 that an Israeli foreign minister came to Switzerland on a state visit. According to a statement from the ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s visit to Cyprus continues on Wednesday after his meeting on Tuesday with Erato Kozakou-Markoullis to discuss the possibility of joint search and rescue operations, in which Greece may well be part of.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is not truly interested in reaching an agreement with Israel, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday, speaking to President of Cyprus Dimitris Christofias. The PA prefers to blame Israel for all its ...
Exploit prejudice. Learn from the European far right, or from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman or perhaps —in the spirit of the season—from Pharaoh. In a pre-Pesah interview to Ha'aretz, the prime minister referred to the poverty ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman quickly joined in, saying that Ashton should instead be thinking about the “children of southern Israel who live in constant fear of rocket attacks from Gaza.” Where to begin? Israel’s surgical attacks have ...
During the morning, the Italian Prime Minister met with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Later on today, he will first meet Palestinian National Authority President Abu Mazen in Ramallah and later Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman kicked off a three-day visit to Cyprus, where he will have energy talks with authorities on the Greek side of the island, on Monday. According to reports from Greek radio, Lieberman is accompanied by high-level ...
Egypt said it formally requested that Israel look into a statement attributed to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in which he described Egypt as more "worrying" than Israel's arch-nemesis Iran. A foreign ministry statement said Foreign Minister Mohammed ...
Senator Joe Lieberman, for one. Avigdor Lieberman (Israel’s Foreign Minister), for two. And as of today, Lee Aronsohn, co-creator of that paragon of comedic greatness, Two and a Half Men, for three. “Why, Emily?” you ask, and not unreasonably.
Senator Joe Lieberman, for one. Avigdor Lieberman (Israel’s Foreign Minister), for two. And as of today, Lee Aronsohn, co-creator of that paragon of comedic greatness, Two and a Half Men, for three. “Why, Emily?” you ask, and not unreasonably.
ISRAELI Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is arriving on an official visit on Easter Monday. According to the announcement by the government’s press office, Lieberman will head a delegation of senior officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry ...
FM Avigdor Lieberman castigated the handling of the Beit HaMachpelah affair. “You cannot justify evacuating Migron, founded 13 years ago with rightful ownership claims, and then evict despite rightful ownership. The Defense Ministry has caused a ...
In the West Bank on Wednesday, Israeli police evicted 15 Israeli settlers from a house owned by Palestinians that had been taken over by Israeli settlers last week. Numerous Israeli legislators and officials, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, criticized the eviction, and Lieberman even called for the replacement of Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
This is why Grass won the Nobel prize. Israel’s ban on Grass was issued by interior minister Eli Yishai and backed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on his website. Lieberman has successfully lobbied to build a road to connect his ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that the expulsion of 15 families from Beit Hamachpela ("House of the Patriarchs") in Hevron could bring down the government. "This policy is undermining the coalition's stability and hampers the ability of ...
And also yesterday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Grass an example of ''the selfishness of the Western pseudo-intellectuals who are willing to sacrifice the Jewish people for the second time on the altar of anti-Semitist madmen''. Lieberman ...
And also yesterday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Grass an example of ''the selfishness of the Western pseudo-intellectuals who are willing to sacrifice the Jewish people for the second time on the altar of anti-Semitist madmen''. Lieberman ...
Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) said on Monday that he supports Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's decision to sever ties with the UN Human Rights Council. “The UN Human Rights Council boasts of a name that it does not deserve,” Yishai said.
Far-right elements of the government led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are furious at Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister, for opposing the expansion of a Jewish settlement in Hebron by one building. Mr Lieberman said Mr Barak's decision was "designed ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided "to cut all ties with the UN's Human Rights forum" following its decision to probe how settlements may be infringing on Palestinians' rights, a senior state official said Monday. "We maintained some kind of a ...
JERUSALEM — As foreign diplomats and his predecessor looked on in astonishment, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman began his new job Wednesday by declaring the death of U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. "Whoever thinks ...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak rejected on Wednesday Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s claims that Egypt presents more of a security danger to Israel than Iran. Earlier this week, Lieberman told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Israel has to “be ...
The Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman, in Cyprus on a two-day official visit, today met with his Cypriot counterpart Erato Kozakou Markoullis. Speaking to the press after the meeting which lasted an hour, as CNA reports, Markoullis said they had a discussion on ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and his Cypriot counterpart Erato Kozakou Markoulli said after talks here that the two eastern Mediterranean neighbors are in the final stages of their negotiations on gas exploitation. "It is very important for ...
JERUSALEM, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a document, reportedly suggesting that the Egyptian revolution could pose a greater strategic threat to Israel than Iran's nuclear program.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has welcomed the growing strength of the bilateral relationship with the Israeli regime during talks with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman amid public outrage over the latter’s visit. Hague said ...
Hundreds of pro-Israel activists and local residents rallied behind Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman as he addressed the Jewish National Fund in Hendon, UK. The counter-protest by British Israel Coalition began as Israel activists challenged anti-Israel ...
Those parties, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu and the ultra-Orthodox Shas, have dominated the government agenda for the last three years, pushing to expand West Bank settlements, fighting efforts to demolish ...
Yisrael Beitenu's leader, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, threatened this weekend to bring down the government if a compromise isn't found. He said he would submit on May 9 a proposal for no more than 1,000 exemplary religious scholars to be granted exemptions.
A meeting of minds: Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba meets his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, in Jerusalem on Tuesday. KYODO Genba told Netanyahu about the circumstances in which Japan has been cooperating with European countries and the United ...
The report added that the issue was raised in the recent discussions between Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Azeri officials in Baku in late April. There are reportedly 16 abandoned airfields and military bases in Azerbaijan. The Azeri ...
Gafni also claimed that despite the fact that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman “loathe” each other, neither of them really want to advance a general election but were doing so simply to shorten the time ...
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s ultra-nationalist party, Yisrael Beiteinu, Mr Netanyahu’s biggest coalition partner, would capture 13 seats, down from its current 15, the poll showed. All Israeli governments have been coalitions and it is ...
Malley of the International Crisis Group is unmoved by remarks like those of the Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said Egypt has become a greater threat than Iran, as Reuters and others have reported. This is not a step toward ending the ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano signed an agreement Sunday in Jerusalem, which will facilitate entry for Israelis and Americans making frequent visits to both countries. The agreement ...
Ministers Ehud Barak, Avigdor Lieberman and newly-appointed Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz attended the meeting as well, prompting State sources to posit that the expanded forum was meant to indicate a unity within the Coalition over the necessity for a ...
Mr Netanyahu has hitherto been in bed with a clutch of parties to the right even of his own: a couple of religious ones and a virulently anti-Arab party led by Avigdor Lieberman, whom the prime minister felt obliged to make foreign minister, though ...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz were among the senior officials who met with Ashton. Israel says for diplomacy to succeed, Iran must agree to stop producing enriched ...
And they all lived happily ever after? Well, not as long as Netanyahu fears the wrath of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon. Meanwhile, the Turks are hardening their stance, even thwarting Israel's participation in a ...
The committee included Netanyahu, newly minted Vice Premier and Minister Without Portfolio Shaul Mofaz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe "Bogie" Yaalon," and ...
Ashton, who led the negotiations on behalf of the six world powers, said to Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz that she is not naïve about Iran’s intentions. When she returned ...
By bringing Mofaz as well as Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to speak to Ashton, Netanyahu demonstrated that there is across-the-board support for his demands that Iran’s nuclear program be stopped dead in its tracks.
Instead, the defense minister formulated an operational plan to stop the flotilla from breaching the maritime blockade Israel imposed on Gaza in just a few meetings with Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the Yediot Aharonot daily reported Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply rejected Grass' poem, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Grass of anti-Semitism. In his poem, Grass called for "unhindered and permanent control of Israel's nuclear capability and Iran's atomic ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was generous in his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, expressing admiration for his "extraordinary leadership skills" and his "great" joy for Putin's return as Russia's president. "With Putin as ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was generous in his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, expressing admiration for his "extraordinary leadership skills" and his "great" joy for Putin's return as Russia's president. "With Putin as ...
Netanyahu, and former Kach movement member (A terrorist group by Israeli definition), Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, along with other officials, are trying to convince the world that Israel and its actions do not jeopardize the “peace process ...
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. "The meeting highlighted the current state of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement. All parties involved expressed dissatisfaction at the deadlock situation in the peace ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was generous in his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, expressing admiration for his "extraordinary leadership skills" and his "great" joy for Putin's return as Russia's president. "With Putin as ...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently claimed that Tel Aviv would send humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Syrian cities to help those suffering from what he described “the Syrian government’s crackdown.” Israel's claim of concern about the ...
In Azerbaijan to tout his country’s ties with the predominantly-Muslim former Soviet republic, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman toured the Ohr Avner Chabad day school in the capital of Baku, meeting with various Jewish organizations one day ...
JERUSALEM, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday that his Yisrael Beitenu party, second largest in the current government, is no longer obligated to the coalition. Speaking on the possibility of early elections ...
Yisrael Beitenu's leader, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, threatened this weekend to bring down the government if a compromise isn't found. He said he would submit on May 9 a proposal for no more than 1,000 exemplary religious scholars to be ...
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also criticised the poem on Sunday, during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. He said it was an expression of the "cynicism" of some Western intellectuals, "who for their self-promotion ...
It must be serious news to make Israel's ultra-hawkish foreign minister turn conciliatory. Yet Avigdor Lieberman described Egypt's April 22 cancellation of its deal to supply Israel with natural gas as "a trade dispute," minimizing the political ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also took a swipe at Diskin. "If you do not trust the prime minister and not the defense minister, you should have resigned and not waited for the end of your term," he said. Further complicating the picture is ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized the eviction and said the issue is threatening the stability of the government. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who ordered the eviction, said the settlers were removed because they failed ...
This new Israeli thinking is based on both moral and strategic grounds. Many officials, including the hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, say that Assad's tough crackdown on his own people has robbed him of any legitimacy to remain in power.
Gemba, who arrived in Israel on Tuesday, met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and on Wednesday held talks with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank city of Ramallah. A statement from ...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and incoming vice premier and Kadima party head Shaul Mofaz, who on May 8 agreed to join the ruling Likud party in a unity government, also attended the meeting. “They discussed Iran.
Netanyahu on Thursday called Grass's poem "shameful", while his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, accused the author of anti-Semitism. "If Gunter wants to continue disseminating his distorted and mendacious works, I advise him to do it from ...
Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis said yesterday. Speaking after talks with her Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, Marcoullis said the deal is important for both countries. “We are, I think, in the final stages of the negotiations ...
Gemba, who arrived in Israel on Tuesday, held a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in mourning for the passing of his father, and also met with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. On Wednesday, he was to ...
Legislators and ministers from the Likud party had visited the settlers in Hebron to show support. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, head of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael B'Teinu party, said Tuesday the government had 'mishandled' the issue ...
Malley of the International Crisis Group is unmoved by remarks like those of the Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said Egypt has become a greater threat than Iran, as Reuters and others have reported. This is not a step toward ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have been establishing more and more settlements in Palestine on confiscated land. While they profess their support for a “two-state solution,” their actions all aim to ...
Religious elements in the coalition oppose any change to the law, but Netanyahu's powerful partner, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has threatened to bring down the government if the exemptions are extended. Secular Israelis believe the ...
Religious elements in the coalition oppose any change to the law, but Netanyahu's powerful partner, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has threatened to bring down the government if the exemptions are extended. Secular Israelis believe the ...
Yediot Achronot reported Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have agreed to add Israel to the “Global Entry” program. The agreement was negotiated during a recent trip by ...
Israel’s political system will know whether or not it’s heading for early elections following the vote on a replacement to the so-called Tal Law on May 9, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Saturday, adding that his Yisrael Beiteinu ...
The Knesset Ethics Committee decided "to issue a grave reprimand on Minister Avigdor Lieberman," and reasserted that it is his and all his party members' obligation to appear before and cooperate with Knesset committees.
An Israeli newspaper cited Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman saying Egypt was more dangerous to Israel than Iran, a country Israelis accuse of building nuclear weapons. — Reuters.
The official indicated that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and incoming vice premier and Kadima head Shaul Mofaz also attended the talks.
The official indicated that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and incoming vice premier and Kadima head Shaul Mofaz also attended the talks.