This time, Israel's prime minister is being investigated for an alleged "bribery relationship" with Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of telecommunications company Bezeq.
Days after President Trump endorsed a two-state solution, the Israeli prime minister tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that Israel must retain control of security in any agreement with the Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warmly received in the U.S. — but polls also show about half of Israelis want him to resign due to ongoing corruption investigations.
President Trump says the U.S.-Israel relationship is better than ever. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who faces snowballing corruption allegations at home.
Israeli police recommended the prime minister be charged for allegedly accepting expensive gifts for favors from billionaires including Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.
"Bro, my dad got your dad a sweet deal," Yair Netanyahu, then 24, is heard telling friends amid talk of prostitution and lap dances in a secretly recorded conversation from 2015.
For three days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — an outspoken critic of anti-Semitism around the world — said nothing about the anti-Jewish chants and Nazi swastikas paraded in Charlottesville, Va.
The president provided few specifics about how a deal might be achieved in a peace process that has been stalled for years. He said it could "begin a process of peace all throughout the Middle East."
Some Israelis criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for offering a less forceful response to anti-Semitic acts in the U.S. than elsewhere. Some say he wants to keep pressure off President Trump.
The Israeli prime minister is meeting with President Trump on Wednesday. NPR journalists will be annotating their remarks during a noon press conference.
The conference, attended by 70 diplomats including Secretary of State John Kerry, nevertheless did not include leaders from the two sides the diplomats mean to reconcile: Israel and Palestinians.
The meeting signals a possible smoothing of relations between the heads of state after the Israeli prime minister's critical remarks about President Obama's plan to reach a nuclear deal with Iran.
An 18-month old died in the fire. The perpetrators scrawled slogans in Hebrew on an outside wall of the house. Palestinian leaders blamed the Israeli government.
After six weeks of negotiations, the prime minister forms a government with other conservative parties. But he has the bare minimum for a majority and the coalition is seen as vulnerable to collapse.
Security forces have been deployed in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to try to prevent further violence after police and protesters clashed Sunday at rallies to protest police treatment of Ethiopian-Israelis.
The Israeli prime minister, who has long called Iran an existential threat, reiterated his opposition to the framework agreement Iran reached with six world powers over its nuclear program.
The president says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that there will be no two-state solution. Obama says the U.S. now has to re-evaluate its Israeli-Palestinian policy.
The Wall Street Journal says Israel spied on the talks and passed on the information to U.S. lawmakers in the hopes of undermining the deal. Israel denies spying on the talks.
The Israeli leader, in an attempt to get his supporters to vote last week, warned that Arab citizens were voting "in droves" to unseat his government. The comments were widely criticized.
Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election is likely to cause President Obama more headaches when it comes to dealing with Republicans, the Iran negotiations and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party has slipped in recent voter surveys. Approaches to a potential Palestinian state and the economy have emerged as top election issues.
