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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday evening, after earlier discussing ways to push a new peace plan with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. and Israeli sources said. A radio report said Netanyahu and Kerry had a first round of private talks and were then joined by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Netanyahu's personal envoy Yitzhak Molcho and his national security adviser Yaakov Amidror. Channel 10 News reported that Kerry is planning on offering Israel and the PA an outline which would see Israel releasing terrorists from its prisons and transferring areas...

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday, over Netanyahu’s apology to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Earlier, Netanyahu spoke on the phone with his Turkish counterpart and apologized for the deaths of nine Turks in a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. In response, Lieberman said in a statement, “Anyone who saw the photos taken on the Mavi Marmara understands beyond any doubt that IDF soldiers acted in self-defense against the activists of the IHH organization, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in Europe. "Such an apology harms IDF soldiers' motivation and their willingness...

"The cleanest, fairest, most just thing to do now is to go to general elections," opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday in his first response to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's victory in Wednesday's Kadima primary election. "Millions of Israeli citizens should have the opportunity to choose who will lead them, it should not be left up to registered Kadima voters alone," Netanyahu said at a press conference he convened in Tel Aviv. "The people should decide who will lead them. Anyone who fears the people's choice is not fit to lead." Formal coalition negotiations won't begin until...