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Knesset approves life-saving “Camel Law”

Cleveland Jewish News 17 Jun 2018

The Law Requiring Identification and Registration of Livestock, which passed its final Knesset approval last week by a very wide margin, requires livestock to be registered and tracked with a microchip inserted below the skin, in much the same way as dog owners have been required to register their pets ... How do you feel about this article?. Choose from the options below. ....

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Knesset Moves to Snap Lens Shut on IDF Critics

Hamodia 17 Jun 2018

Israel moved on Sunday to snap the lens shut on leftist rights’ groups that film its troops’ interactions with Palestinians by introducing a bill that would make it a criminal offense ... It will now go to the Knesset plenum for a vote that could take place this week and if ratified, will be scrutinized and amended before additional parliamentary votes needed for it to pass into law ... We will put an end to this.” ... ....

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Netanyahu Urges Quick Passage of Chareidi Draft Law

Hamodia 17 Jun 2018

“We need to finish this issue as quickly as possible in order to pass it in the current Knesset session,” the prime minister said, according to media reports ... Torah Judaism party who notified Netanyahu that it would leave the coalition if satisfactory legislation is not passed by the end of the summer session of the Knesset on June 22....

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Rabbi Kanievski: haredi enlistment law ‘lesser of two evils’

The Jerusalem Post 17 Jun 2018

Netanyahu. haredi enlistment bill needs to be passed in current Knesset session ... ....

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Ministerial Committee Approves Bill Against Documenting IDF Soldiers

Hamodia 17 Jun 2018

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that forbids photographing IDF soldiers in the course of their duties, making it a criminal offense ... The bill will now go to the Knesset for a vote that could take place this week and if ratified, will be scrutinised and amended before three more parliamentary votes needed for it to pass into law ... ....

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Will the Slaughter in Gaza Finally prick the International Conscience for Firm Action?

Dissident Voice 17 Jun 2018

Instead, he has allied himself to the most reactionary forces in the Knesset and come close to destroying any hopes of such an outcome with the growing illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, the construction of the wall, routed in places condemned even by the Israeli courts, and the encouragement of Donald Trump’s opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem....

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When Rabin Tried To Make Peace

Antiwar 16 Jun 2018

>. After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series The Captains, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered. Yitzhak Rabin. Let me state right from the beginning. I liked the man. He was a man after my own heart. honest, logical, straightforward, to the point ... Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer, and former member of the Israeli Knesset ... ....

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‘Pay to slay’ Knesset bill: ‘The PA will be forced to make a decision’

Cleveland Jewish News 15 Jun 2018

The Israeli bill meant to discourage the Palestinian Authority from paying terrorists, which was just given authorization by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to go to a final vote in Israel’s Knesset, will force the P.A ... For comparison, the P.A ... In 2018, the P.A ... “There is no question that the Israeli opposition bill will be passed in its second reading, as it received extremely wide support in Knesset,” said Hirsch ... ....

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Kahlon: Zionist Camp’s Gabay a ‘Radical Leftist’

Hamodia 15 Jun 2018

With Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu riding high in the polls – the most recent polls from last week show that a Netanyahu-led Likud would get as many as 34 seats in a new Knesset if elections were held now – elections seem to be a long way off, at least this week ... A poll published recently by the Smith organization showed that Zionist Camp would get only 11 seats in a new Knesset....

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Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Tells MKs To Vote Against Proposed Draft Law

Hamodia 15 Jun 2018

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael instructed the party’s members of Knesset on Thursday that unless satisfactory revisions can be made to the Defense Ministry’s recommendations for a new conscription law before passage by the Knesset, the party should vote against the law, and if it is passed without their support, they should immediately withdraw from the coalition ... PrintEmailGmail. ....

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Knesset celebrates Israel's 70th, parties away ‘White Night’

The Jerusalem Post 14 Jun 2018

This is the first time such a celebration was held at the Knesset ... ....

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AJC Global Forum Attendees Hold Religious Pluralism Solidarity Event at Davidson Center

Market Watch 14 Jun 2018

Among the speakers were former ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and member of Knesset Rachel Azaria (Kulanu) ... "We have to break the monopoly of the Rabbinate," she continued, to applause ... Earlier in the week, AJC leaders met with lawmakers at the Knesset and expressed concern over the growing rift between Diaspora Jews and Israel, especially about younger Jews potentially distancing themselves from Israel....

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Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and Palestine - UN General Assembly

Information Clearing House 14 Jun 2018

Watch. General Assembly. 10th emergency special session - Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The General Assembly, Recalling its relevant resolutions regarding the question of Palestine, Recalling also its relevant resolutions on the protection of civilians,. Posted June 13, 2018.   ... ... The Knesset officially declares that Israeli democracy is for Jews only....

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