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in PoliticsWhich government did Israel’s new PM Naftali Bennett describe as a “regime of brutal hangmen”?
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned on Sunday, June 20, 2021, the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his rule would be a “regime of brutal hangmen.”
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in PoliticsIt took US President Joe Biden a month to call Israeli PM Netanyahu after the 2021 inauguration. How long did he wait before calling newly elected Israeli PM Naftali Bennett?
US President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Naftali Bennett only two hours after being sworn in on Sunday, June 13, 2021. Biden took a whole month before calling former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu after his January 20, 2021, inauguration.
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in PoliticsWho is Yair Lapid?
Yair Lapid is a former Israeli TV star, finance minister, and the head of the centrist Yesh Atid party. He is currently Israel’s Alternate Prime Minister and its Minister of Foreign Affairs and is considered the political mastermind behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s loss of power. Under the coalition agreement with Naftali Bennet’s Rightist party, he will become…