U.S. leaders to interview Jewish Agency candidates

Well-placed sources revealed Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a mystery candidate for the job whose name has not been the subject of speculation.

AVITAL SHARANSKY, former US president George W. Bush, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, pose together at a gala dinner in New York honoring the outgoing Jewish Agency chairman

(photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)

ByGIL HOFFMAN

JUNE 18, 2018 21:52

Updated: JUNE 19, 2018 04:07

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