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Politics and Knesset

The Yesh Atid Party brought a no-confidence motion over the passing of the state budget.
The show of support was unfurled on a bridge in Tehran at night.
“There is no politics in the hostage issue,” says Knesset member Boaz Bismuth, who launched the initiative together with MK Shelly Tal Meron.
Pretoria demanded that the ICJ order an immediate end to IDF operations in Gaza • Israeli FM calls proceedings “the greatest show of hypocrisy in history.”
The agency serves as a cover for Hamas, former MK Einat Wilf told the legislators.
Aviva Siegel described the brutality experienced by the abductees being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Annual tourism figures for 2023 fell precipitously short of the 2019 peak due to the sudden collapse of tourism due to the Israel-Hamas war.
“MK Cassif’s treasonous words can no longer be heard while the blood of our soldiers and citizens screams from the ground,” MK Oded Forer said.
Arguing that the law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Government limiting the conditions under which a sitting premier can be removed from office, the Court ruled that the law will only go into effect after elections.
“It is the most basic thing that whoever is sent to represent Israel recognizes the state as Jewish and democratic,” said Israel’s outgoing foreign minister.
“Try to imagine what the Middle East would look like without the Iranian government,” said Vahid Beheshti.
Judicial reform suffered a blow, but not a fatal one, say critics of Monday’s ruling.