After having an eventful first day in India, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun his second day of his six-day visit. On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke protocol and received his 'friend' Netanyahu at the airport following which they made their way to Teen Murti Chowk, which was officially renamed Teen Murti Haifa Chowk. The day ended with a private dinner between the two world leaders. Here's what Netanyahu is up to on his second day.
"I thank the people and Government of Israel for their hospitality. This successful visit will add more energy to India-Israel relations," Modi said in a tweet.
Out of 120 members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament), Netanyahu has the support of 64 members
Leaders from across the world joined Paris as it mourned the victims of last week's terror attacks -- at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish Kosher market.
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza for which Hamas and Israel traded charges holding each other responsible for the incident.
The ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict has disrupted India's efforts to gain from a recent fall in crude oil prices. Since Hamas' invasion of southern Israel on October 7, petroleum has become costlier by around $5 per barrel, threatening to stoke prices and impact growth. Brent crude was trading at $89.8 per barrel on October 9 (9.15 pm IST), up over 4 per cent, thwarting India's anticipation of a period of declining oil prices - after the leading global petroleum benchmark declined by around 11 per cent last week.
While Narendra Modi spent fewer days abroad than his predecessor -- 275 days versus Dr Singh's 306 - he has travelled more widely than any other Indian PM.
In an unprecedented attack that few Israelis saw coming on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah on Saturday, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.
According to the Qatar government, the agreement includes the release of 50 civilian women and children hostages currently held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of a number of Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons, the number of those released will be increased in later stages of implementing the agreement.
Biden said over a year later Russian President Vladimir Putin has "failed and he continues to fail".
United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that based on what he saw, it appears that the deadly explosion at the Gaza hospital was done by 'the other team' and not the Israeli military, accepting the Israeli version of the story pinning the blame for the blast on the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
Biden, in his call with Netanyahu, updated him on US military support and reiterated his warning against anyone seeking to expand the conflict, according to a readout of the call.
There may be a one-on-one meeting between Fadnavis and Netanyahu, after which the chief minister will host a lunch for the Israeli premier and his delegation.
India's voting pattern in the United Nations with regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict is lately marked by a calibrated distancing from Israel, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'He is ultimately responsible for this failure, having ignored warnings from Egypt and the US about the attacks.'
'Everyone I know has somebody kidnapped or murdered by the terrorists.'
United States President Barack Obama has called the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi amidst escalating violence in Gaza.
If military power is all it would take to finish the menace of an awful terrorist organisation like Hamas, how come five Israeli wars in Gaza since 2003 have failed to do so? asks Shekhar Gupta.
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Sunday, a day after Egypt called for an open-ended ceasefire to enable fresh truce negotiations to end the 48-day war which has left over 2,100 people dead in the coastal strip.
Partnership between Israel and India is doing wonders, the visiting prime minister tells business leaders.
Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday assured the United States that resuming peace talks with the Palestinians tops his agenda, amid prevalent scepticism about the Obama Administration's effort to bring both sides to the negotiating table.
While Barack Obama's victory was lauded across the world, there was uneasiness in the Israeli establishment and concerns in the media over whether the US President would try to extract 'revenge' on Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for his tacit backing of Mitt Romney.
At a press conference following a review meeting to fight the spread of coronavirus, Netanyahu said that several measures will be announced to prevent the spread of coronavirus but some simple measures like avoiding the normal handshake while greeting people may possibly be replaced with other forms of greetings like the 'Namaste'.
The two leaders are meeting at the French president's summer residence to discuss a long list of burning issues including the coronavirus pandemic, post-election unrest in Belarus and growing tensions with Turkey.
In a dramatic move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday cancelled early general elections after clinching a surprise deal with the main opposition party to form the largest-ever coalition government in the country. The deal to include the centrist Kadima party was announced a day after Netanyahu called for snap polls in September this year.
"At Monday's meeting between Netanyahu and Obama the Israeli prime minister will deliver a stark warning," the Telegraph reported quoted sources in Jerusalem. Both leaders are meeting in US capital Washington.
Asking the international community to draw a "red line" against Iran's support to acts of terrorism, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused Tehran of jeopardising world peace. "Iran is the biggest exporter of terror in the world. Iran's terror operations are now exposed for all to see," Netanyahu said during a Knesset (Israeli parliament) session, a day after a botched terror attack in Thailand, which Israel believes was meant to target its ambassador.
This is also because Johnson's visit will follow at the end of Modi's three-day visit to Gujarat for inaugurating projects, reports Vinay Umarji.
A bomb ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding 27 people and causing a major setback to peace efforts of the world's top diplomats, on the eighth day of violent conflict between Israel and Hamas which has claimed at least 150 lives.
'But unlike Bond who killed an individual, Israel is killing a nation.'
Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered security forces to prepare for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010, but his military chief and top spy refused to follow orders, calling the move "illegal" and akin to "stealing a war".
'Israelis arrested us before this war and continue to do so -- even more so -- now.'
Subtlety is not exactly the strong point of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And the Obama administration learnt this the hard way when, during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Netanyahu carried a cartoon bomb with him to the dais.
Iran has blamed Israel for carrying out an attack on its own embassy members in New Delhi to "tarnish Iran's friendly ties with India."
The United States has no information yet on which organisation or people were involved in the bombing on an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in New Delhi and attempted attack on Israeli diplomatic personnel in Georgia, the White House has said. "We have no information yet on who is responsible for these attacks, so we are still evaluating what happened," said Jay Carney, White House press secretary.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed Iran and its "protege" Hezbollah of carrying out the twin bomb attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, accusing Tehran of being the "world's largest terror exporter".
'India is respected by both Israel and Palestine.' 'India can push the international community for the peace process.'
If he visits the Jewish state, it would be the first ever by an Indian prime minister.
According to the Magen David Adom rescue service, the four soldiers who died were in their 20s and included three women and one man.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened the Palestinians with unilateral steps over their renewed statehood bid and asserted that Israel will not seek a peace deal "at any price".
