Politics and Knesset
“I will stand on my principles and beliefs. Without Yamina, there is no government,” says right-wing Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked from her office in Jerusalem.
Designed to identify and promote policy changes related to the absorption and integration of new immigrants, it will rely on two decades of data and feedback from the nearly 70,000 people the organization has helped bring to Israel over the years.
Avigdor Lieberman’s new policy will cause “severe economic harm” to haredi families, says United Torah Judaism head Moshe Gafni.
The law essentially prevents Palestinians living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza from “marrying into Israel”—that is, from taking an Arab-Israeli spouse and gaining citizenship through wedlock. Since 1963, an estimated quarter-million Palestinians have become Israeli citizens in this way.
A vote to extend the “family reunification law” ties 59:59, after opposition rejects last-minute compromise including a six-month extension and residency visas for 1,600 Palestinian families.
Ashraf Hassan took advantage of his Israeli citizenship to move around the country freely in pursuit of his plans to kidnap and kill an Israeli soldier, say military officials.
The Polish ambassador was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the draft legislation • Yair Lapid: “We will not allow any parliament to pass laws the purpose of which is to deny the Holocaust.”
Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar announces that Acting State Prosecutor Adv. Amit Aisman will fill the role vacated in December 2019 by Shai Nitzan.
“Immediate action must be taken to reduce the amount of waste for landfill by increasing recycling,” says newly sworn-in Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg.
UTJ leader Moshe Gafni vows to “topple this evil government” after learning a Religious Services Ministry panel plans to review conversion, kashrut and public transportation on Shabbat.
Eleven lawmakers sworn in, with two more to follow, under the country’s controversial “Norwegian law” • First deaf MK sworn in using sign language.
“The Gulf of Eilat is in real danger because of the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline,” says Tamar Zandberg.
