Politics and Knesset
The unprecedented move comes as the court is preparing to hear petitions against the government’s refusal to convene the Judicial Selection Committee.
A member of Shimon HaTzadik’s “neighborhood committee,” Saleh Diab has been arrested numerous times for assaulting Jews.
Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Hod Hasharon, Ra’anana, and Rehovot will see opponents of judicial reform compete.
Adizes’s video also likens Netanyahu to Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević.
Israeli FM Eli Cohen reiterated that his ministry did not leak last week’s meeting with his Libyan counterpart.
The legation’s inauguration is scheduled for Sept. 5.
The money will move soon, provided oversight mechanisms ensure it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
The committee will be established despite the objections of the attorney general.
Moshe Aviv will fill a post that had remained vacant since the formation of the government.
The legation is set to be the seventh in the Israeli capital.
The incident occurred during a protest by hundreds of people, mostly members of Israel’s Ethiopian community, over the handling of a hit-and-run case involving the death of 4-year-old Ethiopian Israeli Rafael Adana.
The lawmaker is alleged to have struck a police officer in the head after being prevented from participating in a demonstration against a court ruling ordering the evacuation of Arab villages on Mount Hebron.
