Politics and Knesset
In strengthening ties between the legislature and Israel’s Christian friends, the caucus can “demonstrate that we have common denominators when it comes to security and other issues,” says former Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein.
The move will “enhance assistance” to Israeli citizens crossing from Ukraine into Poland, said Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
Ministers back replacing provisional emergency orders with the designation of a “special national public health situation,” to be in effect until June.
It’s become “one of the most technologically important strands for the next decades,” says Aviv Zeevi at the Israel Innovation Authority. “We can see it by the amount of investment in this market and by the many countries investing in this technology.”
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli’s opposition to Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s demand that pensions be raised for Israeli career soldiers has angered the latter’s close associates.
Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich told JNS that the Jews “are part of the general community. What’s good for Ukraine is good for the Jews of Ukraine. What’s bad for Ukraine is bad for the Jews of Ukraine.”
At 6.64 children per woman, the haredi sector had the highest fertility rate among Israel’s Jewish population in 2020. Jewish fertility rate surpasses Muslim fertility rate for the first time.
The panel of inquiry will also include former Supreme Court Justice Zvi Zylbertal, former Bank of Israel governor Karnit Flug, retired Israel Navy commander Avraham Ben-Shoshan and former Israeli Air Force Procurement Division head Jacob Burtman.
Embassy officials are working to make sure that Israelis in the country will be able to flee to Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova and Hungary.
Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar says the choices reflect “the correct decision according to the three parameters that I set as a compass: excellence, balance and diversity.”
Curators of the future Knesset Museum embarked on a worldwide investigation to name the creator, Argentinian artist David Sabi.
Ministerial greenlighting of the legislation, proposed by Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana, paves the way for a first reading in the Knesset.
