Legal Affairs
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked retracted the proposed legislation after Justice Ministry officials said the bill would not hold up in the High Court of Justice.
The April 30, 2021 disaster at the Lag B’Omer festival left 45 dead and 150 wounded. With this year’s gathering only days away, the plaintiffs’ lawyer contends the state has learned nothing from the tragedy.
Alex Davies, 27, is accused of being a member of National Action (NA), an entity banned by the British government in December 2016.
A bill proposed by Rep. Greg Steube would halt or limit assistance to Jordan for violating a 1995 extradition treaty over its harboring of a Hamas terrorist.
The Palestinian Authority continues to refuse Israel’s requests to hold a joint investigation into the shooting death of “Al Jazeera” journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Frank Petronio, 62, of Spencerport, N.Y., will be arraigned in July.
The documentation argues that such decrees recognize that “refusing to do business with people because of their connections to the Jewish state, rather than their individual conduct, can be a form of anti-Semitism.”
A grand jury in Louisville indicted 21-year-old Quintez Brown, who will be arraigned on April 4.
While the Israel Police and the Attorney General’s Office have pushed back against allegations of illegal evidence-gathering, senior Hebrew University lecturer Gadi Taub dismissed the responses as “spin.”
He was a state’s attorney when he worked on gathering evidence against Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi mastermind of the “Final Solution,” under prosecutor Gideon Hausner during the 1961 trial in Jerusalem.
“It’s a painful way to kill a person, and it’s fundamentally inhumane,” said Janice Friebaum, former vice president and spokesperson for the Phoenix Holocaust Association. “To think that it was done to millions during the Holocaust is horrific enough.”
Alexander Giannakakis, 35, previously of Quincy, Mass., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for “making false statements in a matter involving domestic terrorism,” among other related charges.
