Even Palestinians married to Israelis are barred from living in Israel and becoming citizens. This week, the Israeli Knesset blocked legislation whose purpose was “to define Israel as a democratic and multi-cultural state that guarantees complete civil, cultural, and national..…
In Israel, Basic Laws in effect represent an Israeli constitution and require a supermajority in Israel’s Knesset (parliament) to change. . The nation-state law defines the land of Israel as the historic homeland of the Jews, who alone have the right to self-determination..…
How was the transformation to this new Israel accomplished? . The Central Electoral Commission had to disqualify a party list and two Arab Members of Knesset (MKs) before certain Israeli intellectuals, journalists, and legal experts began asking themselves whether Israel is still..…
The party holds 10 of the 120 seats in parliament, making it the third-largest party in the Knesset. In the past decade, it has become a key partner in Israel's coalition governments, whether hard-line Likud or dovish Labor, neither of which has been able to win an absolute majority on its..…
Shas drew votes from secular and religious Sephardic Jews to win four seats Israel's 120-seat parliament, Knesset.. In 1990, Schach was able to decide who would lead Israel by steering Shas and his Ashkenazi Degel HaTorah party to Likud Yitzhak Shamir enough support in..…
The debate on the reparations issue was likely the fiercest and most heated in Israel’s history. ... Begin, who was subsequently held responsible for the violence, was barred from the Knesset for three months. . ..…
Third, the deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament, Ahmad Tibi, an Arab Israeli citizen, has publicly proposed turning Israel from a Jewish state into one with no religious identity. He presides over sessions of the Knesset but, according to Hillel’s guidelines, couldn’t address an..…
The 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of Israel—the country’s other large, expanding sector that has low employment rates and high levels of poverty—managed not to lose Knesset seats, despite a continued trend of slowly declining voter participation.10 This may be reversed, though,..…
In his life, he has fought for Israel’s independence, and he has fought for peace and security. As a member of the Haganah and a member of the Knesset, as a Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs, as a Prime Minister and as President — Shimon helped build the nation that thrives today:..…
the bill stands little chance of passing, how much Israel has shifted to the right since Gaza disengagement, with bloc of Knesset members now openly challenging IDF's authority to carry out missions in the territories that they believe, perhaps not wrongly, could spark mass mutiny.. ..…
Oded Forer initiated April impeachment of Haneen Zoabi from Knesset and legislation to disqualify Arab Knesset candidates for calling Israel racist and calling upon countries to boycott and sanction it.. ..…
The reports also regard the labeling of Israel as “an apartheid state” as a manifestation of anti-Semitism. At a hearing of the Knesset’s Immigration and Absorption Committee in May 2015, Porat stated that “It’s obvious that anti-Israeliness and anti-Zionism are acquiring an..…