Politics and Knesset
Pending a review by the State Attorney’s Office, Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri could face money laundering, bribery, breach of trust, perjury and tax-evasion charges • Deri denies any wrongdoing, says he is sure State Attorney’s Office will dismiss the case.
An environmentally-friendly cable-car system will have a capacity of 3,000 passengers in each direction during peak time and will be connected to the mass transit system planned in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “there are countries that have conquered and replaced entire populations, and the world keeps silent. Strength is the key; it makes all the difference in our policy towards the Arab world.”
Hamas in Gaza and Turkey, and Hezbollah in Lebanon were working around the clock to attempt to attack Israelis in Judea and Samaria, notes Israel’s Shin Bet security services director Nadav Argaman.
Steve Cooke, the secretary of Norton West branch in the Stockton North constituency, said he was “aghast” that the motion was defeated after members criticized that there was too much emphasis on “anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that.”
Though Israel does allow for the death penalty, it was only used once—in 1962 for the execution of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his part in engineering the Holocaust.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement “a historic, correct and moving step.”
The Metropolitan Police said it is acting on a dossier of information, consisting of more than 80 pages of anti-Semitic vitriol, provided by the Campaign Against Antisemitism to London police chief Cressida Dick.
“His greatness was that he would defer to sages and great religious leaders. In all the battles fought by the Chief Rabbinate, he was always on our side like a protective wall,” said Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
“It’s a slander and a grotesque mischaracterization of the State of Israel, which is an exemplary member of the community of democracies,” says Dan Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International CEO and executive vice president.
The delay is to allow for more time to talk with the community and consider alternative proposals, but some reports indicate that it is due to an offer from Khan al-Ahmar residents to relocate.
American Jewish leaders and Israel-related groups express mixed reactions over the Israeli Supreme Court’s controversial decision to allow the entry of BDS activist Lara Alqasem, with some accusing the court of overstepping its boundaries.
