Members in influential positions within the ruling party opposing Netanyahu

Members in influential positions within the ruling party opposing Netanyahu

JERUSALEM – Opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to curtail the powers of the judiciary has become public in the cabinet and the ruling Likud party. Defense Minister Yoav Galant demanded that the reforms to control the judiciary be stopped. Prominent Likud party leaders Yuli Edelstein, David Biden, and Avi Dichter also called … Read more

Netanyahu fires defense minister over demand for pause in proposed judicial system reforms

Netanyahu fires defense minister over demand for pause in proposed judicial system reforms

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked the defense minister after he called on Saturday evening to freeze the mechanism for reforming the judicial system, which the government is seeking, for a month. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a brief statement that “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from his … Read more

Netanyahu faces mounting partisan pressure following defense minister’s appeal to halt judicial modifications.

Netanyahu faces mounting partisan pressure following defense minister’s appeal to halt judicial modifications.

A senior lawmaker in the Israeli Knesset from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party joined Sunday An invitation launched by the Minister of Defense To suspend proposed amendments to the judicial system that have caused controversy and division and raised the prospect of shrinking the government’s parliamentary majority. And those splits in the prime minister’s … Read more

Israeli Prime Minister continues with legal reforms despite opposition | International

Israeli Prime Minister continues with legal reforms despite opposition | International

23 mrt 2023 om 22:45Update: 3 uur geleden The Israeli government is continuing with the controversial legal reforms that have been protested for three months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised speech on Thursday “to do everything possible to restore calm and ensure unity”. The reforms will reduce the power of the Supreme … Read more

United States: controversy surrounding the visit of Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance

United States: controversy surrounding the visit of Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance

With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten Since its release on the eradication of the Palestinian town of Huwara, progressive Jewish groups had called on the Biden administration not to grant Bezalel Smotrich a visa. The White House did not accede to this request, but will not receive it as is customary. Trip wasted … Read more

Tens of thousands demonstrate ahead of a Knesset session to vote on the Judicial Reform Law

Tens of thousands demonstrate ahead of a Knesset session to vote on the Judicial Reform Law

On Monday, tens of thousands of Israelis held demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to protest against Judicial reform programme government, which they see as a threat to democracy, as lawmakers prepare to vote on the controversial bill. The demonstrators began gathering in front of the parliament, ahead of the first reading vote on legislation … Read more

Blinken asks Netanyahu and Abbas to ‘restore calm’

Blinken asks Netanyahu and Abbas to ‘restore calm’

By Le Figaro with AFP Published on 02/19/2023 at 07:39 This content is not accessible. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Munich Security Conference, February 18, 2023. The head of US diplomacy spoke on the phone on Saturday with the Israeli Prime Minister and the Palestinian President. POOL / REUTERS US Foreign Minister … Read more

Israel’s president warns of ‘collapse’

Israel’s president warns of ‘collapse’

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Israel against a judicial reform. The President is now making an urgent appeal to the government. In Israel, President Isaac Herzog has warned of a “constitutional and social collapse” in the country under the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In one of his rare television speeches during prime … Read more

New attack in East Jerusalem: two people injured, the 13-year-old assailant was killed

New attack in East Jerusalem: two people injured, the 13-year-old assailant was killed

New attack this Saturday morning in East Jerusalem. A 47-year-old man and his 23-year-old son were shot. The assailant was a 13 year old Palestinian, he was killed. The attack comes a few hours after the attack on a synagogue, again in East Jerusalem. Seven people had been killed there and ten others injured during … Read more

Biden to Netanyahu: The Jerusalem attack was an attack on the civilized world

Biden to Netanyahu: The Jerusalem attack was an attack on the civilized world

(CNN) — US President Joe Biden described, on Friday, the attack in Jerusalem near a synagogue as “an attack on the civilized world,” according to a statement issued by the White House on a phone call between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to discuss the attack.” Apocalyptic terrorist. The statement added that the … Read more