![[FILE] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech before lighting a stylised-menorah during the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, in Ramat Gan in the suburbs of the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 2, 2018. – Israeli police on December 2 recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for bribery and other offences, the third such move against the premier in recent months. Netanyahu immediately rejected the accusations, but the three cases against him have led to speculation that they could eventually force the long-serving prime minister to step down. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)](https://www.today.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/13105539-218x150.jpg "Israel denies Benjamin Netanyahu’s Holocaust comment in Poland")
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![China's articial moon will beam light eight times brighter than the moon [Andy Wong-AP Photo] 2](https://www.today.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/19085809-324x235.jpg "China to launch ‘artificial moon’ to illuminate city streets")
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![[FILE] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech before lighting a stylised-menorah during the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, in Ramat Gan in the suburbs of the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 2, 2018. – Israeli police on December 2 recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara for bribery and other offences, the third such move against the premier in recent months. Netanyahu immediately rejected the accusations, but the three cases against him have led to speculation that they could eventually force the long-serving prime minister to step down. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)](https://www.today.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/13105539-150x150.jpg "Israel denies Benjamin Netanyahu’s Holocaust comment in Poland")
Israel denies Benjamin Netanyahu’s Holocaust comment in Poland
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