Politics and Knesset
The proposed legislation, put forward by ultra-Orthodox Israeli parties Shas and UTJ, charges law enforcement with trying to “persecute” and “muzzle” rabbis.
“We are not going to see a civil war, but we are going to see violence rise steadily,” says Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts “glorify violence,” but the Iranian leader’s calls to genocide are just “foreign policy saber-rattling on military-economic issues,” says Twitter regional policy director.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps in to stop MKs from impeaching Likud faction head Miki Zohar for “thuggish” conduct.
A new report also found a 90 percent spike in Torah-observant women employed in high-tech in the past four years.
Miri Regev reportedly liked the “out-of-the-box” solution to the problem of commuter congestion on the highways leading to the center of the country.
The statement did not specify what the new attendance limit would be, and the ministry has yet to officially announce any change in policy.
Railing against the Israeli prime minister’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, the head of the right-wing Yamina Party called the current government “one of the worst” in the country’s history.
Cyber and National Digital Matters Minister David Amsalem accuses Blue and White of “particularly serious” violation of coalition deal over support for gay-conversion therapy bill.
The faction’s parties are at odds over a bill banning gay-conversion therapy, which passed in a preliminary reading in the Knesset.
The funds are needed to finance ongoing activities for the Israel Defense Forces that cannot be delayed, says the Israeli premier.
The Likud Party accuses Blue and White of violating the coalition agreement over its last-minute support of the bill • Ultra-Orthodox parties, outraged, threaten to begin advancing their own legislation.
