Benjamin Netanyahu
Thousands of demonstrators descend on the capital as the Knesset plenum prepares to advance a judicial reform bill.
Turkey will also host Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who will fly to Ankara on July 25.
“As prime minister of all citizens, I aspire to have a broad understanding regarding the amendment to the judicial system,” said Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s office denied he made the concession.
The invitation came after Israel officially recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has called for the justices to reject the demand.
The U.S. president expressed support for the left-wing demonstrations in Israel.
The prime minister may allow the courts to use the reasonableness standard when judging individual ministerial decisions.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was given several chances to clarify whether the congresswoman’s remarks were antisemitic and if Netanyahu was invited to the White House.
At the CUFI Summit in Washington, the former governor and ambassador said that the president, the United Nations and congressional Democrats fail on Israel and American Jewish issues.
A visit could make the PM “a stage prop for prominent Democrats to lecture and embarrass,” American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Rubin tells JNS.
Should we mark our calendars, or was this merely the vaguest possible way the White House could have talked about a meeting, without actually committing to one?
