Politics and Knesset
Millions of Israelis are furious over the government’s caving to the rioting and its alleged plan to recognize these illegal Bedouin encampments situated on state lands, claiming that such capitulation will only lead to further unrest and violence.
“A big impetus for this friction is the fact that there’s been a disparity between the Bedouin’s perception of their property rights and Israel’s view of Bedouin property rights,” said David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Bedouin simply don’t have deeds to the land that they claim to be theirs.”
“It cannot be that people are afraid to drive at night near Beersheva,” says the vehicle’s driver, who had his daughter with him at the time of the attack.
“We will not leave citizens to deal with this alone. The state will help carry the burden,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The Biden administration has signaled that it is working to expand the circle with Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the Maldives, Comoros, Kuwait and Qatar.
Israel will maintain “unlimited and unrestricted freedom of action, everywhere and at all times,” regardless of what happens in the Vienna nuclear talks, says the prime minister.
Overall, approximately 160,000 people were added to the Israeli population, an increase of 1.7 percent.
The bill potentially allows more than 130,000 Arab Israelis living on land defined as “agricultural” rather than “residential” to receive electricity, water and phone lines.
The legislation allows more than 130,000 Arab Israelis living in illegally built homes to be hooked up to the national grid • Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu calls enactment of the law a “black day for Zionism and democracy.”
Out of 51 indices, Jerusalem fared poorer than the national average in 33, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
The goal is for the Israel National Counter-Terrorism Unit “to be the best counter-terrorism unit in the world,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics also noted that roughly 74 percent of Israel’s inhabitants are Jewish, 21 percent Arab and 5 percent are neither.
