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Netanyahu secures Likud party's leadership after winning over 72% vote
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], Dec 27 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday secured the leadership of the Likud party after winning 72.5% of the party vote in a chairmanship primary election held on Thursday, The Times of Israel reported.
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Netanyahu taken off stage at event after rocket fired from Gaza into Israe
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Dec 26 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed off the stage during an election campaign event after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon on Wednesday.
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Israel's Likud party prepares for leadership primary election
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Dec. 26 (ANI): Israel's ruling Likud party will hold a chairmanship primary election on Thursday to determine who will lead it in the next election.
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Netanyahu rival Sa'ar makes request to hold Likud leadership race
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Nov 24 (ANI) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rival and Likud Member of Knesset Gideon Sa'ar on Sunday has requested the ruling party to hold leadership primaries in a bid to unseat Israel's leader and 'to prevent the state from lapsing into unnecessary elections'.
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Israel: Gantz calls on Netanyahu to resign, seeks support from Likud to fo
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Tel Aviv[Israel], Nov 24: Israel's Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Saturday urged leaders of the premier's Likud party to join him in forming a government and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.
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Netanyahu, Gantz hold coalition talks amid political stalemate in Israel
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Oct 28 (ANI): Israel's longest-serving leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz met here on Sunday in a fresh bid to break the political stalemate and prevent an unprecedented scenario of a third parliamentary election in les
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Israeli PM Netanyahu calls on opposition leader Gantz to form a 'unity gov
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Sept 19 (ANI): Likud Party chief Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday extended an olive branch to the Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz to form a "broad unity government" in Israel following the recently culminated snap polls.
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Israel: Likud, Blue and White in a deadlock with over 90 pc of ballots cou
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel] Sept 18 (ANI): In what was touted to be a close necktie between Likud party and Blue and White, with over 90 per cent of ballots counted as of 6:30 am (local time), the two direct rivals again ending in a deadlock with 32 seats apiece and Avigdor Lieberman led Yisrael Beyte
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Netanyahu confident of re-election despite exit polls depicting deadlock
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Sept 18 (ANI): Likud Party chief Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday expressed confidence on retaining power despite exit polls showing Benny Gantz, his direct rival from the Blue and White party, taking a slight edge over him in the country's recently culminated snap general
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Amid rocket fires sirens warning, Israel PM evacuated from stage during el
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Ashodad [Israel], Sept 11 (ANI): Amid sirens warning of rocket fire, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was evacuated from the stage during an election rally in Ashdod on Tuesday.
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Netanyahu invited to form government in Israel
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], Apr 18 (ANI): The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, on Wednesday invited four-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next coalition government here following last week's elections in the nation.
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Israel: PM Modi greets 'dear friend' Netanyahu on poll results
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated his "dear friend" Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu as unofficial results projected a clear win for the right-wing leader in Israel's April 9 elections for the 21st Knesset.
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