Israel today...

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There have been reports of Netanyahu taking inappropriate and very expensive gifts, and Netanyahu admitting he took the gifts but questioned if they were really inappropriate. But today the cover of Times of Israel...wow...

Newspaper publisher said to be at center of Netanyahu probe

Prime minister reportedly promised Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes he would work to close down rival newspaper Israel Hayom in return for more favorable coverage

According to a report Sunday in the daily Haaretz, officers are in possession of “a series” of audio recordings of Netanyahu that appear to corroborate the suspicions, part of a mysterious investigation whose details have remained hazy.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/newspap...investigation/

Netanyahu reportedly recorded discussing ‘quid pro quo’ with businessman

Pact would have secured unnamed Israeli tycoon ‘achievements’ worth ‘a fortune’ in exchange for helping PM, report says

http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-...-quid-pro-quo/

and Reuters..

Netanyahu tried to negotiate a good press in return for benefits-media

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under police investigation for suspected corruption, was caught on tape negotiating mutual benefits with an arch-foe, the owner of one of Israel's largest-selling newspapers, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

The report, which Israeli media outlets described as "an earthquake" that could have implications for Netanyahu's political future, drew no immediate comment from the prime minister or Yedioth Ahronoth daily owner Noni Mozes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-is...+World+News%29

Israel sorry for embassy employee plot to ‘bring down’ UK lawmakers

The Israeli ambassador to London has apologized to a UK minister after an employee was caught on film conspiring to discredit British politicians, notably Foreign Office deputy minister Alan Duncan, who is perceived as being unfriendly to Israel.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels...own-lawmakers/



The only one that wouldn't surprise???

Iran plotted assassination of pro-Israel official in Germany — report

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-pl...ermany-report/

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Re: Israel today...

PMO official: Amona residents ‘need to bow down before Netanyahu’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff reportedly told residents of the illegal Amona outpost that “they need to bow down before Netanyahu for saving the settlement,” following complaints by residents that a compromise deal signed with the government to prevent the outpost’s demolition has not been implemented.

The West Bank outpost, which the High Court of Justice ruled had been built on private Palestinian land and must be demolished by December 25, 2016, will instead be evacuated by February 8 after residents of Amona reached a deal with the government last month under which 24 of the outpost’s 41 families would be moved to an adjacent plot of land on the same hill while the rest would move to the nearby Ofra settlement.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pmo-off...ore-netanyahu/