US Jewish community leader lobbied for prominent Palestinian prisoner Barghouti’s release (Times of Israel, 2025-10-12)
US Jewish community leader lobbied for prominent Palestinian prisoner Barghouti’s release (Times of Israel, 2025-10-12)
US Jewish community leader lobbied for prominent Palestinian prisoner Barghouti’s release (Times of Israel, 2025-10-12)
... World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder offered to travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where negotiations on the agreement were being finalized last week, in order to make the case for including [Marwan] Barghouti on the list of 250 prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails who will be released in exchange for the remaining 48 hostages held in Gaza, according to a senior Arab official, an Israeli official, and a third source familiar with the matter.
The idea was nixed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office amid overwhelming opposition to releasing Barghouti, 66, among Israeli cabinet ministers who signed off on the deal, the three sources said...
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