We further call on the international community and this august Assembly to act to reject it and condemn it as a racist, illegal law and deem it null and void, just as the United Nations condemned apartheid South Africa in several resolutions in the past, bearing in mind also that thousands of Jews and Israeli..…
The data confirm the recent years that following high tide in LGBT struggle, with number of pride parades and protest events, the attitude of Israeli to LGBT rights is to the left of the government and Knesset.. On July, Knesset approved change to Surrogacy Law, and on that occasion,..…
Former Israeli Knesset speaker, Avrum Burg, has presented such a proposal in a new article in The Prospect Magazine. ..…
The composition of High Court must be changed said Orthodox MK Hendel after the judges had declared Azmi Bishara and Ahmad Tibi, eligible to run for Knesset. ..…
In Israel, Basic Laws in effect represent an Israeli constitution and require a supermajority in Israel’s Knesset (parliament) to change. . ..…
Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, told the Israeli Knesset last December that diplomatic efforts were “far from being over”–and that an Iranian nuclear bomb was at least two years or more off. ..…
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 equality to all of its citizens” — Jewish and Arab. . ..…
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber at the Knesset on January 31, 2017. ..…
Aryeh Deri, had already resigned from Knesset and the party's political functions.. ... Ben Eliezer said it's possible that Barak could form government with 77 of Knesset's 120 members, majority than the razor-thin margins held by recent governments.. ..…
The party holds 10 of the 120 seats in parliament, making it the third-largest party in the Knesset. ... 'I believe we will grow to at least 18 members of the Knesset. We will widen our movement, to make it even bigger, to open even more [religious] study centers.' . ..…
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 Knesset to forge..…
On January 7, 1952, the day of Knesset debate on this issue, Israeli security authorities went and IDF prepared to counter attempt to overthrow the government. ..…
He presides over sessions of the Knesset but, according to Hillel’s guidelines, couldn’t address an American Jewish group on a college campus. . ..…
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 Jewish state of Israel. ..…
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.. ..…
Knesset from Netanyahu's Likud charged Naomi Chazan, head of the New Israel Fund, with treason, and member of Lieberman's party launched investigation aimed at curbing foreign funding of Israeli NGOs.. ... Red Cross study on in Gaza Strip, in Knesset to allow Jewish neighborhoods to..…
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.. Saying Joint List continues to prove that its MKs do not belong in Knesset,..…
Under PA, 7 percent of each budget must go to paying terrorists, or to their families, chairman of Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.. ..…
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 increasingly anti-Semitic tone.” ..…
The United Nations had condemned South African state in resolutions in the past, bearing in mind that thousands of Jews and Israeli citizens have rejected and protested against this law 56 Knesset members out of 120 voted against it. ..…