Legal Affairs
“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.
“A medical evaluation confirms that he is fit to stand trial in a limited way,” said a spokeswoman for the Neuruppin state court.
It requires platforms to clearly state their policies for removing content and blocking users by providing “an available response in the Hebrew language for the investigation of complaints” and to offer a way for users to ask about removal; it also clarifies when they can seek damages in court.
The assailant hits a Chassidic man in Brooklyn, N.Y., with a piece of broken furniture.
The law essentially prevents Palestinians living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza from “marrying into Israel”—that is, from taking an Arab-Israeli spouse and gaining citizenship through wedlock. Since 1963, an estimated quarter-million Palestinians have become Israeli citizens in this way.
A vote to extend the “family reunification law” ties 59:59, after opposition rejects last-minute compromise including a six-month extension and residency visas for 1,600 Palestinian families.
Five of those charged with killing 56-year-old Yigal Yehoshua are Arab Israelis; the other two are Palestinians.
Outgoing chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says no information has been received from Israel about its strike on a building in Gaza that housed two major media outlets.
American Jewish Committee: There is something “profoundly wrong” with a state being prepared to execute a prisoner using “a method of execution that inevitably, inextricably and forever linked to the worst outrages of human history.”
French-Israeli MP Meyer Habib, who initiated and will spearhead the inquiry, vows to do “everything in my power to expose the truth.”
Two-year-old Alta Fixler is unable to eat, drink or breathe unassisted; in May, a British court ruled that she be taken off life support, against the wishes of her Orthodox Jewish parents.
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Richard F. Natonski: Israel did everything it could to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that Hamas put tunnels, rocket-launchers, mortar facilities and headquarters in civilian-occupied buildings. But another battle at play is the war of public opinion.
