Politics and Knesset
Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling from 2017 honoring Ateret Cohanim’s lease of three church properties in Jerusalem’s Old City.
While polls still show that right-wing parties dominate the political map, Blue and White Party officials say if they receive a few more seats than Likud, then the president will ask Benny Gantz to form the next government instead of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Likud legislator, Israel’s first openly gay right-wing MK, will serve as justice minister until after Israel’s Sept. 17 elections, replacing Ayelet Shaked.
The court has rejected a petition by Hamas representatives seeking to overturn a 2017 decision by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan canceling family visitations for Hamas terrorists in Israeli prisons.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also spoke about the need to reframe global misconceptions about Zionism and Israel.
Of British Jewry, she says: “They’re fearful of not having their voice, and not being able to live in a decent and tolerable society that’s based on equality and respect, and not being able to see their children grow up in a community free of racism. We should all want that for our children.”
Ibrahim and Hadar Kozli, who in 2012 found the body of Majdi Halabi, an Israeli soldier missing since 2005, will receive the full monetary prize offered at the time. Failing to pay, stressed Israel’s High Court, would lessen the effectiveness of future rewards offered by the state.
The U.S. forestry chief’s tour included a visit to the memorial site for those who perished during Israel’s 2010 Carmel Fire.
The New Right and Zehut leaders are talking about the two parties running on a joint list for the election and reverting to their current status should they make it into the Knesset.
With one hour till midnight, the prime minister’s motorcade pulls up to the Knesset. As he enters the building, Benjamin Netanyahu tells the media: “We are heading to new elections.”
This has nothing to do with ultra-Orthodox conscription and everything to do with legislation over immunity, according to Jonathan Rynhold, deputy head of the department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
The Israeli prime minister’s wife will pay a $15,000 fine as part of the deal, but won’t admit to fraud.
