Shalom Lipner

Shalom Lipner, a former foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, is a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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Bibi's Faustian bargain

28 February 2018, 18:00 PM
On February 13, after an investigation that began in 2016, the Israeli police recommended charges against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Now, the spotlight is on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who must decide whether to issue a formal indictment against a man who has become virtually synonymous with modern Israeli politics.
28 February 2018, 18:00 PM