Politics and Knesset
“There was a certain duality between the way the decision was presented by the spokespeople as a pro-nationalist decision when it was actually in practice clearly anti-nationalist, negating national interests and values,” says Menashe S. Yado, an attorney for Honenu, who represented bereaved families in the case.
“Teachers are fleeing the profession due to the disgraceful salaries and conditions,” says Israel Teachers Union head Yaffa Ben-David.
“It is important for us that the Jews of the world know that we are not just praying and fighting here,” says Yaniv Poria, a professor in the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management in the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management at Ben-Gurion University.
The attempt to punish Israel for its stance on the war with Ukraine is “deplorable and offensive. The Jews of Russia cannot be detached from their historical and emotional connection to the State of Israel,” said Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.
The Nov. 1 elections are “an opportunity that can’t be missed to get out of this entanglement” and establish a broad, stable government, says the Israeli prime minister.
Likud cancels chairmanship primaries, sets internal elections for the Knesset slate for Aug. 10 • Former Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On announces political comeback, to go up against Yair Golan on Aug. 23.
“It is a matter of decency and long-established convention in Germany that you never stoop to using the Berlin Holocaust memorial as a prop,” said Joe Glasman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Physicians will be eligible to receive 50,000 shekels ($14,300) per family, while healthcare workers and engineers will be eligible for 20,000 shekels ($5,720).
Lt. Col. Moteea Dagash, head of the IDF’s Construction Branch, tells JNS about ambitious programs, which include turning biowaste into power sources.
The new center will represent “a substantial leap” for Israeli civilian technology, says Israeli Innovation, Science and Technology minister.
State official says the government is prepared to present existing financial agreements with Ramallah to the High Court of Justice, but only “behind closed doors.”
A senior adviser to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei claims Tehran “has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb” but that no decision has yet been made to do so.
