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Bills include override clause, which would permit Knesset to re-legislate laws struck down by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Knesset advances first batch of judicial reform bills Amir Ettinger March 14, 2023 The Knesset Tuesday passed the first reading of major bills pertaining to the judicial reform, including the highly contested override clause. … Continue reading

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A year after the IDF launched the massive counter-terror effort in Judea and Samaria, Israel still grappling with Palestinian terror wave, but many innocent lives have been saved, says IDF officer

JNS ‘Hundreds of Israeli lives saved by Operation Break the Wave’ Yaakov Lappin March 16, 2023 A little over a year ago, on April 7, 2022, a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated Israel from Jenin shot and killed three Israeli civilians … Continue reading

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Letter accuses Biden administration of allowing “taxpayer-funded antisemitism” at colleges and universities across the country

JPOST Republicans demand answers from Education Dept. on antisemitism funding March 13, 2023 Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 14 other Republican senators demanded answers this week in a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, regarding the issues of taxpayer … Continue reading

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McKinsey, which works with China, Russia, and corrupt South African authorities, dropped sponsorship over Linda Sarsour appearance

FREE BEACON Rashida Tlaib and Biden Official Were Featured Speakers at Conference So Controversial It Lost Its Corporate Sponsor Alana Goodman March 9, 2023 Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and a Biden State Department appointee spoke at Harvard University’s annual … Continue reading

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That China was able to step in and broker a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, is perhaps the biggest Biden Admin foreign policy failure yet

TABLET MAG Biden Is Delivering the Middle East to China Michael Doran March 15, 2023 Can Washington recognize a Sputnik moment when it sees one? The reconciliation that Chinese leader Xi Jinping brokered last week between Iran, America’s adversary, and Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading

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Republicans’ views are unchanged, with nearly eight in 10 (78%) continuing to sympathize more with the Israelis while 11% side with the Palestinians

GALLUP Democrats’ Sympathies in Middle East Shift to Palestinians Lydia Saad March 16, 2023 After a decade in which Democrats have shown increasing affinity toward the Palestinians, their sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than … Continue reading

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Ticketmaster helpfully assists the “godfather of hate” play Chicago

JERUSALEM POST Ticketmaster under fire for selling tickets to Louis Farrakhan event Maya Zanger-Nadis March 7, 2023 Popular California-based ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster has come under fire from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) this week after they hosted ticket sales … Continue reading

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These seven men and one woman — Theodore Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Abba Eban, Louis Brandeis, Ben Hecht, Ron Dermer, and Golda Meir — are eagerly split between American and European origins, and they all play starring roles in the long-deferred return to Zion

AMERICAN GREATNESS The Triumph and Tragedy of Abba Eban Rick Richman March 11, 2023 …Eban’s speeches were a record of eloquence unequaled by any diplomat during that period. Conor Cruise O’Brien, representing Ireland in the U.N. (sitting next to Eban … Continue reading

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Since the rise of 24/7 cable news, in which television stations for the first time had to fill 1,440 minutes of air time every day, our news ecosystem has become reliant on stoking fear and outrage

FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM How to bring civility back to our politics Julian Adorney and Mark Johnson March 13, 2023 …The idea that our Republic is in unprecedented danger if we let our political foes take power is historically … Continue reading

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Police say gunman shot dead after opening fire at people outside cafe on Dizengoff Street; another victim in serious condition; Hamas claims terrorist as member

TIMES OF ISRAEL 3 wounded, including 1 critically, in central Tel Aviv terror shooting Emanuel Fabian March 9, 2023 Three people were shot and wounded in a terrorist shooting near a cafe in central Tel Aviv on Thursday night, police … Continue reading

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