Politics and Knesset
Israeli Minister Eli Avidar calls the police’s breakup of the protest at the Knesset “violent and brutal.”
It follows a 2.2% reduction in the Gross Domestic Product in 2020.
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi says her delegation is in Israel to “illustrate our commitment to a two-state solution, Jewish and Palestinian.”
“Quantum computing is a technology Israeli industry cannot ignore,” says Israel Innovation Authority CEO Dror Bin.
The crowdfunded initiative, inspired by the Canadian Freedom Convoy and operating under the slogan “Take back the wheel,” culminated with major protests outside Israel’s Knesset and Supreme Court in Jerusalem.
Israel’s defense attaché says that the relationship between the two countries was “never as strong as it is now.”
In his U.S. debut, Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas says he’d rather focus on the future than the past, and on what’s useful rather than what’s “right.”
El Al is adding additional flights to and from Kyiv • The Jewish Agency plans to return educational emissaries to Israel.
The Feb. 12 program is titled “2022, The Year to Combat Normalization: We Will Resist the Entity and Protect the Homeland.”
Avi Bell, a law professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and the University of San Diego, said “it is well-established in international law and international practice that states have near-plenary discretion in establishing their immigration.”
The certificate, awarded to Elbit’s Starliner UAS after a six-year review, “included thousands of man hours, dozens of audits, laboratory tests, ground tests, intensive flight tests and thousands of documents.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is facing heavy criticism for calling Bezalel Smotrich’s ideology “abominable and hatred-inducing” and telling him to “get back on the plane.”
