Politics and Knesset
The alleged move comes as Jerusalem awaits Iran’s anticipated revenge attack for last week’s assassination in Tehran of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh.
The decision will apply to lawyers, accountants and teachers starting Oct. 1.
The alleged crime the soldiers are accused of committing, said attorney Nati Rom, “occurred in an open space, not in some dark isolated room, and the soldiers did not do anything sexual to this ... high-ranking Hamas officer.”
The ambassadors of the European Union, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia will also be called upon to explain the targeting of residents of Judea and Samaria.
“Especially during this time, we as a country need to do everything possible to make it easier for new immigrants,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Keir Starmer’s government has already announced renewed UNRWA funding and withdrawn objections to arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.
Airlines asked for more time to prepare for the change, which will expedite airport procedures for visitors from visa-exempt countries.
Residents plan to hold a protest after the the High Court ruled that the Israel Defense Forces has the authority to decide whether or not the workers will be allowed to reenter the Samaria town.
“The Palestinian Authority should be held accountable for what happened on Oct. 7,” Religious Zionist Party lawmaker Simcha Rothman told JNS.
The court found in favor of an Orthodox Jewish school sued for defamation by a rabbi who had been fired.
“Nobody accuses the United States of being an apartheid state,” the former U.S. ambassador to Israel told the Knesset.
The U.N. aid agency is “a fifth column within the State of Israel,” said opposition lawmaker Yulia Malinovsky.
