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Tag Archives: Knesset
Bucking global pressure, Knesset overwhelmingly backs legislation against UNRWA over staffers’ terror links
TIMES OF ISRAEL Knesset approves laws barring UNRWA from Israel, limiting it in Gaza and West Bank Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid October 29, 2024 Despite widespread international opposition, lawmakers voted overwhelming on Monday evening to approve two bills essentially barring … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Knesset, United Nations, United Nations Refugee and Works Agency, UNRWA
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Netanyahu said that either way, his government would bring a reform that will “return the balance that was lost between the branches,” while “safeguarding and even strengthening individual rights”
JPOST Netanyahu suspends judicial reform: I will not lead Israel to civil war Eliav Breuer March 27, 2023 Prime Minister Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday evening that he was temporarily freezing the bill that would alter the makeup of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Ben-Gvir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset, Yoav Gallant
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Likud MK Yuli Edelstein: “The State of Israel tonight began the recovery process from the deportation disaster” in reference to the 2005 expulsion of 8,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and Samaria
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Knesset repeals 2005 act on West Bank settlement pullout JNS/ILH staff March 21, 2023 The Knesset on Tuesday voted 31-18 to repeal articles of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement Law banning Israelis from entering and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Disengagement, Gaza, Knesset, Samaria, Yuli Edelstein
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Proposed Knesset bill could spark “serious clash with Evangelical Christians in the US and around the world who are among the biggest supporters of the State of Israel”
CBN NEWS Netanyahu: ‘No Law’ Will Pass in Knesset That ‘Harms Christianity’ Chris Mitchell March 22, 2023 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded Wednesday to a chorus of concern from evangelical Christians in the U.S. and from believers in Israel … Continue reading
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
Netanyahu presents new government’s agenda; Lapid: ‘Try not to destroy the country’
TIMES OF ISRAEL Netanyahu returns as PM, wins Knesset support for Israel’s most hardline government Carrie Keller-Lynn December 29, 2022 …According to coalition agreements signed between Likud and each of its five partner parties, as well as its published guiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset, Likud, Likud Party, Yair Lapid
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By March “Knesset to vote on legislation to eliminate the clause by which grandchildren of those who are Jewish according to Halacha can immediately immigrate to Israel”
JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu on a collision course with US Jewry, Biden, Arab allies Tovah Lazaroff December 22, 2022 Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to take office, and he already is on a collision course with both liberal American Jews … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset, Right of Return, Yair Lapid
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Netanyahu on coalition partners: ‘They are joining me, I’m not joining them’
I24NEWS Bills advance to enable ministries for Smotrich, Deri December 15, 2022 Bills to allow religious lawmakers Bezalel Smotrich and Aryeh Deri passed early Friday on their first readings in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The bills amend Israel’s Basic Laws, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryeh Deri, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Knesset
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“Fall elections will be Israel’s fifth in three years. Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will assume office as prime minister at midnight, Bennett to serve as PM-designate and acting religious affairs minister”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Knesset dissolves, elections slated for Nov. 1 Amir Ettinger and Yehuda Shlezinger June 30, 2022 The Knesset on Thursday voted on its dissolution triggering what will be Israel’s fifth elections in three years. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Knesset, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid
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“The Knesset on Wednesday approved a preliminary bill to dissolve itself and is expected to formally disperse next week after going through two committee reviews and three more votes to voluntary disband.”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Readying to leave office, Bennett says at IDF ceremony: ‘I did the best I could’ June 24, 2022 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, speaking Thursday at what will likely be his last military ceremony as premier, said he … Continue reading
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