Politics and Knesset
The frequency of fires has dropped, allowing authorities to assess damage • Nature reserves near Gaza have lost up to 78 percent of plant life, with animal populations decimated.
Londoners woke up on Thursday morning to messages on at least six bus stops with “Israel is a racist endeavor” posters, just two days after the U.K. Labour Party adopted a definition of anti-Semitism.
With the rise of Labour Party leader and accused anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn, Britain grappling with its decision to leave the European Union and Prime Minister Theresa May facing criticism over Brexit, Jewish community members are concerned—concerned enough to consider leaving.
Finally taking this step sounds “positive,” said Gideon Falter, chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism, but doing so “should never have been in question.”
If Labour does not adopt full definition of anti-Semitism at coming meeting, party could become “irrelevant,” says former home secretary.
Israel’s minorities are expressing concern because they perceive the new law as favoritism for Jewish citizens at their expense.
Any place where outdoor events are conducted with 50-plus people will now be a smoke-free zone, thanks to a new law by Israel’s Ministry of Health, in a bid to crack down on exposure to secondhand smoke.
A speech by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2013 was the “most offensive statement by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech,” said former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Jonathan Sacks.
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the Israel Defense Forces to admit five critically ill women who are close relatives of Hamas terrorists for urgent medical treatment, despite a government ban on providing health care to Hamas relatives.
Bodyguards to protect Jewish Labour Party members at upcoming conference out of fear they could face attack by hard-line supporters of party leader Jeremy Corbyn
The Labour Party leader made the comments at a conference promoted by the Palestinian terror group Hamas and featured “a range of anti-Semites, homophobes and conspiracy theorists,“ wrote the “Daily Mail.“
Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry is warning Israelis to protect themselves from insect bites after reporting that 67 people have been hospitalized with West Nile virus.
