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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs during the weekly Cabinet meeting being held in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (Amir Cohen/Pool via AP)

Benjamin Netanyahu Israel ‘do-over’ vote threatens his political dominance

By Seth J. Frantzman

Trump backs a Netanyahu priority ahead of Israeli election

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, photo, Palestinian Barhoum Saleh gives an interview at his roadside mechanic shop, near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Elkana, west of Qalqiliya. Saleh is among the 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank who have no voice in choosing Israel’s next government and no control over whether it decides to annex part or all of the occupied territory, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to do. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Unable to vote, Palestinians shrug off Israel’s elections

By Joseph Krauss and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sochi, Russia, Thursday Sept. 12, 2019. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Netanyahu meet before Israeli parliamentary election

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a press conference at the foreign ministry in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Netanyahu on Monday unveiled what he said was a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear weapons site, further escalating a showdown between the two enemy countries. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu: Rocket attacks make new war in Gaza inevitable

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to begin annexing West Bank settlements if he wins national elections next week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Facebook sanctions Netanyahu page over hate speech violation

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to begin annexing West Bank settlements if he wins national elections next week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Saudis condemn Israeli PM’s West Bank annexations plans

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

A Palestinian man works on a farm near Bardala, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election eve vow to annex the Jordan Valley if he is re-elected has sparked an angry Arab rebuke and injected the Palestinians into a campaign that had almost entirely ignored them. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A look at the Jordan Valley Israeli PM has vowed to annex

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to begin annexing West Bank settlements if he wins national elections next week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

The Latest: Netanyahu pledge dims hope for Palestinian state

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves following a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to begin annexing West Bank settlements if he wins national elections next week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli PM, vows to begin annexing West Bank settlements

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli PM’s bid to place cameras at polling stations fails

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

FILE - in this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with former Defense Minister and Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem. After forcing an unprecedented second Israeli election of the year by refusing to join the government of his onetime ally, Netanyahu, maverick politician Avigdor Lieberman is now poised to be the kingmaker in the do-over vote on Sept. 17. Neither Netanyahu nor his chief challenger Benny Gantz appears able to form a coalition without Lieberman. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Israeli PM’s former protege could now bring his downfall

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Israeli PM’s office airbrushes Netanyahu’s ‘Yeltsin’ gaffe

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gestures as he speaks during a ceremony near Hebron's holiest site, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Israeli controlled part of the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Israel's prime minister is visiting the volatile West Bank city of Hebron under tight security in a move widely perceived as a bid to garner support from ultra-nationalists ahead of next month's elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli PM pays pre-election trip to volatile West Bank city

By MOSHE EDRI - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 14, 2019, file photo, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is reaffirming his pledge to impose Israeli sovereignty on West Bank settlements.Speaking Sunday, Sept. 1, at a ceremony opening the new school year in the settlement of Elkana, Netanyahu says there &quot;will be no more displacements&quot; and all the communities will be &quot;part of the state of Israel.&quot; (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu calls to boycott Israeli channel behind HBO show

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, greets students as they wave Israeli flags during a ceremony opening the school year in the Jewish settlement of Elkana in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, Sep. 1, 2019. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli PM infuses campaign with anti-media incitement

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Israel PM vows to annex West Bank settlements

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Lebanese soldiers with U.N officials patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun along the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel: Iran, Hezbollah intensifying missile efforts

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in Kyiv, Ukraine. The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Lebanon. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Israel’s shadow war with Iran bursts into the open

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Israeli forces patrol near the area of an attack, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 25. 2019. An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

The Latest: Israeli PM orders building plan for settlement

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