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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jerusalem - The Knesset is considering a law that would change the way the Sabbath is officially observed in the State of Israel. The new measure would allow public transportation to run and permit many recreation and entertainment-oriented businesses to open. Government agencies and services would still remain closed. The proposal, which states “the freedom of movement [...]
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English Webster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Women Knesset Members Silenced—in the Knesset While the Israeli Knesset is the perfect place for power plays, this particular kind of power play was inappropriate even there. When the Knesset choir sang “Hatikva” in honor of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit last Monday, women members of the Knesset choir were deliberately excluded so as not to offend Haredi Knesset members. Female MKs joined...
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isrealli (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo: Getty Images> A new law passed this week by the Knesset will raise Israel’s environmental standards in the hope of further reducing emissions and pollution. As Haaretz reports, the new law will make it easier to set standards for companies and to monitor the enforcement of these measures. Now, as they say, the [...]
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Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amos Harel Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin believes that the cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip serve the interests of Hamas, not Israel, and charged that by agreeing to the deal Israel has "offered Hamas a lifeline." Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday, the security services head argued that Israel's deterrent has "suffered substantially" as a result of events...
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Ynet News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Troubling results from poll conducted by Knesset Research and Information Center pushes MK Ophir Pines to revise anti-discriminatory bill to include Haredim, immigrants on after women, Israeli-Arabs, disabled
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The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By: Christopher Ruddy, NewsMax: Editor’s Note: Newsmax Editor Christopher Ruddy is visiting Israel this week and met with Natan Sharansky. The former Soviet dissident spent more than a decade in the communist Gulag. He emigrated to Israel after his release in 1986, became a Knesset member and served in four successive Israeli governments, including time as deputy prime minister. In 2006, he resigned...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Israel - The Knesset has approved a bill underlining the independence of the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and supplying them with funds without subjugating them to the Education Ministry and its teaching curriculum. The bill was passed by a majority of 39 MKs, and was opposed by just six. According to the new law, the ultra-Orthodox community, as [...]
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The prime minister balances heart with head in his foreign policy GORDON BROWN is not a naturally emotive politician. That habitual reserve made this week's visit to Israel striking and intriguing. It featured an address to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on July 21st--the first by a prime minister of the old mandate-era power. Mr Brown said that his father, a minister in the Church of Scotland,...
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Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
/> Hillel Fendel The Knesset Audit Committee is likely to support a public inquiry committee that will investigate the government's treatment of the Gush Katif expellees. Twenty housing units have been approved for former residents of the now-destroyed Gush Katif town of Shirat HaYam in Maskiyot in the Jordan Valley. 81% of Expelled Families Still Far From Permanent Homes Three years after the Disengagement,...
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treppenwitz (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Yesterday the Knesset passed a new law that, at first blush, seems to be a good thing: Since the founding of the State, successive Israeli governments have been illegally funding haredi (ultra-Orthodox) schools with a wink and a nod. Technically,...
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Ynet News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Proposed amendment would give plenum authority to force prime minister to temporarily remove himself from office in face of criminal investigation against him. To restore him to power, suspended PM would need 61 votes
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Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
If there’s one lesson I think we’ve all learned from Obama’s package tour of Middle East capitals, it’s that however many new t-shirts he returns with, he won’t have any new policies: Barack Obama held talks with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Wednesday as the Democratic White House hopeful began a day of meetings in Israel [...]
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Of course, I could be wrong... (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
From JTA : Female members of the Knesset's choir were excluded from a plenum performance in deference to fervently Orthodox sensibilities. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was treated to a rendition of the Israeli national anthem while visiting the Knesset on Monday, but the singers were all men. It emerged that three female lawmakers who are also part of the parliamentary choir were left out to...
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
At 2:00PM on Wednesday, the Knesset is holding a special session marking three years since the residents of Gush Katif were thrown out of their homes by the government of Erik Sharon. Prof. Yitzchak Katz of the Knesset’s Gush Katif lobby will present a detailed report detailing the status of the refugees, their mental and physical [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It is believed that Jerusalem Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky will honor the United Torah Judaism faction coalition agreement, which calls on him to step down after he completes his term to clear the way for a delegate from the Agudah party. UTJ is composed of two parties, the Litvish Degel HaTorah Party and the Chassidish Agudas [...]
