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Is Netanyahu engineering snap election in effort to save his political skin?

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Published: 8 March 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

During Washington visit, PM lashes out at police over state’s witnesses, denies using crisis to engineer fresh poll and receives hero’s welcome at AIPAC conference

Netanyahu’s freedom now on the line (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT Now that Nir Hefetz, the former adviser to Netanyahu, has turned state’s witness against his former boss, it appears to increase the likelihood of his era coming to an end

In fresh broadside, Netanyahu lashes police for using state’s witnesses (Times of Israel)
Innocent people are put under 'intense pressure and told to lie' about false allegations, just so they will 'dish the dirt' on the PM, he says

Netanyahu denies leveraging draft bill crisis to call elections (Times of Israel)
Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed speculation he would use a coalition fight over ultra-Orthodox conscription as a pretext to call fresh elections amid his mounting legal woes.

Netanyahu, embroiled by scandal at home, receives hero's welcome at AIPAC (Haaretz)
Netanyahu says 'we must stop Iran, we will stop Iran' to standing ovations at AIPAC, touts Israeli innovation and says peace won't happen until Abbas stops supporting terrorists

Photo: Trump and Netanyahu in the White House earlier this week (Reuters)
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