Politics and Knesset
Khaled Abdel-Fattah wounded two police officers near Jerusalem’s Old City
The Prime Minister’s Office has begun talks with local authority heads in northern Israel regarding the possibility that schools will not open on Sept. 1.
The group and others like it want to “undermine Israeli democracy and preserve oligarchy,” says researcher Martin Sherman.
Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is employing two sets of rules out of political motives, said the national security minister.
“Some donor nations, probably led by the U.S., could defund and in whole or in part end UNRWA,” says James Lindsay.
The position had remained vacant since Asaf Zamir resigned, ostensibly over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s now-shelved judicial reform agenda.
Netanyahu’s Likud Party charged that “Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy.”
MK Yifat Shasha-Biton of Sa’ar’s faction told JNS that Sa’ar will not rejoin the Likud, wants a seat in the war cabinet.
The revised framework raises the expenditure limit to $160 billion, up $19 billion from that approved before Oct. 7.
After Gideon Sa’ar splits from alliance with Benny Gantz, the PM said to view him as “right-wing insurance” for shaky government.
The Knesset House Committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s appeal to restore the New Hope Party.
It is unclear what will become of those who were converted without proper vetting since the state effectively recognized their conversions before suspicions were raised.
