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Downing Street sources told “The Guardian” that no appointments would be confirmed with any minister until next week.
Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Diaspora minister, told JNS that “we should dream, pray for having the vast majority of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael.”
In an unusually harsh rebuke following arson near his home, the Israeli premier complained that police were not enforcing the law.
“Especially at this time, we wanted to show the Muslim leaders the religious pluralism that exists in Israel and the history of our nation in order to deepen our interfaith ties,” Israeli Ambassador to Rwanda Einat Weiss told JNS.
“What happened this morning is terrorism,” said Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin of the incident, which occurred near the Prime Minister’s Residence.
The government had vowed to boycott the hearing and did not file a response to the court.
If Netanyahu wins again, “the state will fall apart,” the Yesh Atid Party leader claimed.
Almost two years after being uprooted from their homes, children in northern Israeli are finally returning to classrooms.
“The most important thing in any of our lives is not how many times someone knocks you down, it’s how many times you get back up—one more time” the US ambassador told the students.
“Your claim that the authority to set policy is currently suspended is patently illegal,” the minister told Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon.
Pupils evacuated during Israel’s multi-front war returned to school in their home communities in the “Gaza Envelope” and northern Israel.
“The disengagement is dead. The people of Israel live,” declared Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.