Politics and Knesset
The court orders the government to pass new legislation within the next few weeks if it wishes to continue to track the movements of coronavirus carriers.
Labor leader Amir Peretz set to become Israel’s economy minister following a party vote in favor of joining the coalition • Peretz: “Strategic cooperation” with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz “will return Labor to its place as a leading and influential political movement.”
Nearly 80 percent of Israelis are sabras and more than one-third are minors, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Former Blue and White co-chairman Yair Lapid blasts erstwhile ally Benny Gantz over unity deal, apologizes to voters • Likud sources: “Netanyahu wants Yamina as full-fledged partners on the right.”
Details on the forthcoming new Israeli government, to be formally signed next week after Yom Ha’aztmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. Its first order of business will be to pass legislation to set the Netanyahu-Gantz rotation in motion.
“We prevented a fourth election,” Benny Gantz said in a tweet. “We will protect our democracy and fight against the coronavirus.”
Talks reportedly break down over the Judges Selection Committee; Blue and White leader Benny Gantz expected to launch legislation that would prevent Netanyahu from serving as prime minister.
Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, said in a statement: “In the dying days of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, the Labour Party appears to have invested in a desperate last-ditch attempt to deflect and discredit allegations of anti-Semitism.”
Labor Knesset member Mirav Michaeli declared, “You don’t sell out the party of [David] Ben-Gurion, [Yitzhak] Rabin and [Shimon] Peres.”
In his acceptance speech, Keir Starmer, 57, apologized to the Jewish community and pledged to eliminate the anti-Semitism in the party, calling it a “stain.”
Following worldwide outrage to the overturning of the convictions, the four have been rearrested and will remain behind bars “for a period of three months pending filing of the appeal.”
“We urge the U.S. government to press the government in Pakistan to reverse this injustice and hold the murderers of an American citizen to account,” said the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
