10/21/2019 10:29:23 AM PDT · by gandalftb · 81 replies
09/25/2019 4:48:13 PM PDT · by billorites · 16 replies
PowerLine ^ | September 25, 2019 | Paul Mirengoff
In the aftermath of last weeks inconclusive elections, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has asked Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government. Netanyahu has until October 24 to do so. Rivlin declared that Netanyahu, the current prime minister, has the best chance to form a government. I think Rivlin is correct that Netanyahu has a better chance of doing so than his main opponent, Benny Gantz, who specializes in declaring victory but not in achieveing it. But that doesnt mean Netanyahu will succeed. He couldnt accomplish this task after the April elections in which his party fared better than it did last...
09/25/2019 10:13:51 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 28 replies
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will tap Likud Chair and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the task of forming a ruling coalition, after meeting Wednesday evening with Netanyahu and his main challenger, Blue and White Chair Benny Gantz. The announcement comes after Rivlin received the official election results earlier Wednesday and as he encourages Gantz and Netanyahu to form a unity government.
01/29/2018 4:44:08 PM PST · by IsraelBeach · 27 replies
Israel News Agency ^ | January 29, 2018 | Joel Leyden
Israel President Rivlin Addresses Poland, Anti-Semitism At Holocaust Remembrance By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyAthens, Greece  January 29, 2018
Israeli President Rivlin commented on Polands denial of its role in the Holocaust. Rivlin, who is visiting Greece, stated that in relation to the new Polish legislation that Polands decision to place in prison those who speak of Polands complicity with Nazi Germany is a reminder that it is still beholden upon Israel, all Jews and Christians to fight for the memory of the Holocaust, as it happened. Research into the Holocaust must be free, open, and sincere. The...
Reuven RivlinBorn in Palestine? (Google vs. Israel)
05/15/2015 5:48:37 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
President Reuven Rivlin was born on September 9, 1939, in Jerusalem. However, according to the Google search engine, the tenth president of the State of Israel was born in Palestine. The Mayor of Raanana, Zeev Bielski, made the shocking discovery. While working on a speech for the arrival of President to Raanana, and I typed his name into Google in English, and then we were amazed to see that says he was born in Jerusalemin the Palestinian state, Bielski stated to Yediot Aharonot on Friday. [
] This is not the first time that Google has leaned toward labeling parts of...
03/25/2015 4:42:34 PM PDT · by IsraelBeach · 5 replies
Israel News Agency ^ | March 25, 2015 | Joel Leyden
By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem, Israel  March 25, 2015
Part of the following was communicated by the Presidents Office of Israel to the Israel News Agency. President of Israel Reuven Rivlin this evening, appointed outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu MK, with the task of forming the 34th Government of Israel, at a ceremony at the Presidents Residence in Jerusalem. The President signed the official letter of appointment in his office with Prime Minister Netanyahu, before going on to make public statements. In democracy, majority rules, and the majority has made its voice heard clearly in this election,...
UNWRA Runs Out of Money Israel Says is Being Used for Terror Tunnels
01/27/2015 7:20:58 PM PST · by SJackson · 7 replies
Jewish Press ^ | January 27th, 2015 | Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
As usual, there is a big gap between what Arab countries promise and what they deliver. Ki-moon walks through a Hamas terror tunnel from Gaza to Israel last year. Photo Credit: Haim Zach / GPO UNRWA said Tuesday it has suspended it program rehabilitate Gaza, which may be good news for Israel since it says material shipped to Gaza are also being used to rehabilitate terror tunnels. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told President Reuven Rivlin in New York Monday night that the United Nations has sent a team to Gaza to investigate assertions by Israel that metal and cement shipped...
Visiting US, (Israeli) President Rivlin says he wont meet Obama
01/25/2015 3:59:05 PM PST · by icwhatudo · 20 replies
07/24/2014 12:27:54 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 10 replies
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres ended his term as president of Israel on Thursdaya man who symbolizes hopes for peace capping a seven-decade public career amid the brutal reality of war. Peres handed the ceremonial but high-profile presidency over to Reuven Rivlin, a legislator from the hawkish Likud Party. Although the globe-trotting elder statesman has made clear he has no intention to retire, few expect him to hold public office again, after a career that dates back to the 1940s and has seen him occupy almost every major government position in the land. [
In sharp contrast to...
06/11/2014 11:06:14 AM PDT · by IsraelBeach · 3 replies
Israel News Agency ^ | June 11, 2014 | Joel Leyden
By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem --- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel President-elect Reuven Rivlin agreed to agree on Wednesday, embracing with a hug and a smile for the cameras. Formal congratulations from the Prime Minister to the President-elect were in order despite the fact that Netanyahu worked very hard to find a different Likud candidate for the office  and Rivlin knew it. Theyve been at odds for years in fact; but theyre both professional enough and smart enough to know they must now set aside those differences. Given the many political differences between Netanyahu and Rivlin, the...
Netanyahu 'Desperate to Block Rivlin Presidency'
05/12/2014 3:53:43 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 6 replies
Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/5/14 | Gil Ronen
Political analysts say Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhau is making desperate maneuvers to try and prevent MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud-Beytenu) from being elected president in the coming weeks. The Knesset began its summer session Monday, a session that will focus on the process of electing a president, as Shimon Peres's term nears its end. Peres's term ends in July, and a successor is to be elected by the Knesset between 30 and 90 days before then. Netanyahu reportedly is still trying to bring about a six-month postponement of the election, after failing to do so until now. Sources close to him...