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Israel’s Rivlin seeks to cure ‘disease’ of racism
But despite his position on the two-state solution, the president has a reputation for defending civil liberties and minority rights within the land that Israel controls. Rivlin took office in ...
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin takes a lead role in pushing back against Europe’s Holocaust revisionism
But Yad Vashem, Israel’s usually apolitical Holocaust ... Shuli Davidovich, a senior foreign policy adviser to Rivlin, said the president believes history should be left to historians and ...
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Biden kneels before Orthodox adviser to Israel’s president after learning she has 12 children
In a meeting with Israel’s outgoing president Reuven Rivlin at the White House on Monday, Biden knelt before Rivlin’s bureau chief, a haredi Orthodox woman named Rivka Ravitz, in deference to ...
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Netanyahu didn’t win Israel’s election. So why is he getting the chance to form a government?
(JTA) — As votes were counted following last week’s election in Israel, many saw the results ... for many on Wednesday when Israeli President Reuven Rivlin decided to give Netanyahu, rather ...
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Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73
Reuven Rivlin, 79, was elected president of Israel in 2014 after a long career as a Likud Party politician who twice served as Speaker of the Knesset. JTA has documented Jewish history in real ...
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Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, undergoes lung transplant
Nechama Rivlin was awake and speaking to her medical team and family, the President’s Office said in a statement. Doctors at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva in Central Israel stressed that the ...
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Rivlin: Violence an epidemic in Israeli society
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The epidemic of violence permeates every sector of Israel, the country’s president, Reuven Rivlin, said in an address. “It is time to honestly admit that Israeli society is ...
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Biden speaks with Netanyahu and Rivlin, assures Israeli leaders ties will remain ‘close’
The prime minister, a close Trump ally, in a tweet referred to Biden as president-elect for the first time. (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in ...
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President Reuven Rivlin speaks with Turkey’s Erdogan over objections by Israel’s Foreign Ministry
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by phone at the Turkish president’s request despite objections from Israel’s Foreign Ministry. The call took ...
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin calls for ‘reverse Birthright’ at opening of Jewish federations’ conference
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called for a “reverse ... the passage of a law this year officially defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jews; a proposed reform ...