Politics and Knesset
The court found in favor of an Orthodox Jewish school sued for defamation by a rabbi who had been fired.
“Nobody accuses the United States of being an apartheid state,” the former U.S. ambassador to Israel told the Knesset.
The U.N. aid agency is “a fifth column within the State of Israel,” said opposition lawmaker Yulia Malinovsky.
Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition would win 58 out of 120 mandates if elections were held today, according to Direct Polls.
The assailant told the court he had hurled a fire bomb at the building in The Hague to draw attention to the situation in Gaza.
The motion opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state “on any piece of land west of the Jordan River.”
“Of course I want to stop the war!” exclaimed MK Mansour Abbas.
“If it were up to you—in the opposition, the TV studios, the former officials—you would have given up a long time ago,” the PM said at the Knesset.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, there has been an increase of over 500% in interest in immigration from France alone, according to data from the Jewish Agency and Israel’s Aliya and Integration Ministry.
The diplomatic cold shoulder comes against a backdrop of strained relations, most notably Oslo’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
“Unfortunately, Saturday night protests are not enough,” said Yair Golan, urging Israelis to “tell the government that we will not continue to pay taxes.”
Judges say a temporary order passed in the wake of the war requires them to appoint lawyers for more than a hundred captured terrorists.
