Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently launched a Twitter account in Arabic.
“Greetings from the holy city of Jerusalem,” he tweeted his followers in Beirut, Baghdad and Cairo. “The aim of this account is to deepen the dialogue with you.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday evening to congratulate him on his victory in Tuesday’s election.
“This was a vote of confidence in your leadership,” Netanyahu told Obama. Netanyahu has rejected accusations that he had hurt relations with Washington through his perceived preference for defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Read more.
Israeli leaders hold the record for the most official visits to the United States since 1874.
According to U.S. State Department data covering the period from 1874 to the end of 2011, eighteen Israeli leaders have landed in the U.S. 106 times. Benjamin Netanyahu alone stopped by more than all of China’s leaders in the past 138 years. Read more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced early elections during a televised statement on Tuesday.
Netanyahu said that since his coalition government would not be able to agree on a national budget for 2013, he had “decided, for the benefit of Israel, to hold elections now and as quickly as possible.”
He said the elections are due to take place within three months. Read more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cartoon diagram of the Iranian bomb that he presented during his UN speech has come to be known as the ‘Bibi Bomb’ and has inspired a plethora of memes.
Even before the speech was complete, the viral cartoons of Looney Tunes began to hit the Internet. Read more.
![Vanity Fair has published an in-depth profile of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in its upcoming July issue.
In an interview, Netanyahu told David Margolick that he is not a “natural politician” or “naturally manipulative”.
“I’m not a glad-hander, I’m not a backslapper, but I’m not [this] icy presence,” Netanyahu says.
The article offers a broad scan of the tale of “two Bibis”, Netanyahu’s complex relationship with the Israeli media and American Jewish moguls, and mentions that “arguably, his sole accomplishment this time around has been to trade 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel for the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas for five years in Gaza.” Read more.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m59k1ck3R01rrzt5qo1_500.jpg)
Vanity Fair has published an in-depth profile of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in its upcoming July issue.
In an interview, Netanyahu told David Margolick that he is not a “natural politician” or “naturally manipulative”.
“I’m not a glad-hander, I’m not a backslapper, but I’m not [this] icy presence,” Netanyahu says.
The article offers a broad scan of the tale of “two Bibis”, Netanyahu’s complex relationship with the Israeli media and American Jewish moguls, and mentions that “arguably, his sole accomplishment this time around has been to trade 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel for the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas for five years in Gaza.” Read more.
The latest issue of TIME, featuring our cover story on Israel’s prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, will hit newsstands Friday. Read the article here.
(Photograph by Marco Grob for TIME)
