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Health and Medicine / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Hospitals Tell Knesset Committee Incentives a Must in Recruiting Physicians to Periphery

By JNi.Media

Health Ministry data on the internship preferences of medical students suggest all too clearly that 'they are not interested in going to the periphery!'

Haredim & Hassidim / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Holds Heated Debate on Harassment of Haredi IDF Soldiers

By JNi.Media

'This is a warning sign and all of the involved entities should take action – here and now, before a disaster will occur and it will cost us in blood.'

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Government / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Politics / Settlements / The Knesset

Ministerial Committee to Vote on Annexing Judean City

By JNi.Media

Netanyahu objects to annexing Ma'ale Adumim at this point, because he is weary of offending the new president by taking for granted his approval to such a sea change.

Elections / Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Approves 'V15 Law' Limiting Campaign Contributions

By JNi.Media

The amendment has been dubbed the 'V15 Law' a leftwing movement that received $349,000 in funding from the US State Dept. to unseat PM Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015.

Anti-Israel NGOs / Boycott / BDS / Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Courts / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Sends Visa Ban on BDS Activists to Final Vote

By JNi.Media

Temporary residents who support boycotts against Israel would not be upgraded to permanent residency, meaning they could be expelled.

Anti-Israel NGOs / Europe / Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Politics / US

Knesset Committee Hears Diaspora Jewish Students Won't Support Israel in US, Europe, Fearing Anti-Semitism

By JNi.Media

Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'

Business and Economy / Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Finance Committee Approves Long Term Savings for Every Child Retroactive to Jan. 2015

By JNi.Media

MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.

Aliyah / Geulah / Government / History / News Briefs / Politics

Government to Reveal Lost Yemenite Children 2001 Committee Findings

By JNi.Media

The committee began its investigations in 1995, following bloody clashes in Passover of 1994, between the followers of a Yemenite Rabbi and police.

Gaza / Government / Hamas / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Politics / Terrorism / The Knesset

Liberman to Knesset Defense Committee: Hamas Preparing for Next Round

By JNi.Media

The defense minister said Israel will invest close to $1 billion over the next few years on defending the Gaza-vicinity communities.

Israel / News Briefs / Sports

Israeli Paralympic Delegation Comes Back to Cheers, but Committee Says That Gaps Remain

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Committee members also said that Israel lags behind other countries in terms of support and investment for sports, especially for disabled people.

Aliyah / Geulah / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Approves $80 Million to Support New Immigrants

By JNi.Media

Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.

Judea & Samaria / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Settlements / The Courts

Knesset Committee discussed Yitzhar Minor's Case

By Jewish Press News Desk

No representatives from either the Justice Ministry or the Shabak showed up for the meeting.

Israel / News Briefs / Turkey

Knesset Committee Recognizes Armenian Genocide

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Education, Culture and Sports Committee decided to recognize the Armenian genocide on Monday at a meeting initiated by Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Antisemitism / Global / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Politics / Sports / Terrorism

Olympic Committee Rejects Media Watchdog's Call to Ban Palestine Olympic Committee Head Rajoub

By JNi.Media

Rajoub condemned a successful peacebuilding event between Israeli and Arab youth sponsored by the Peres Center for Peace as a "crime against humanity."

Government / Health and Medicine / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Politics / The Knesset / US

Knesset Committee Quarrels with Anti-Drug Officials over Colorado Legalized Weed

By JNi.Media

"It's been four years into the legalization in Colorado and the sky did not fall," committee chairwoman Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) said.

Aliyah / Geulah / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Police and Crime / Politics / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Discovers Significant Drop in Immigrant Youth Crime

By JNi.Media

For every shekel the state invests in preventing delinquency or rehabilitating a juvenile delinquent, it will save 5-10 shekels in the future by avoiding the delinquent's imprisonment, compensating those hurt by the delinquent, etc.

Business and Economy / Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset / US

Knesset Committee Approves Submission to US IRS Tax Compliance Act

By JNi.Media

The committee also succeeded in repelling the Israeli tax authority, which wanted initially to be able to use information gathered by Israeli banks for the IRS.

Business and Economy / Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Slams Finance Minister on Fear of Fighting Monopolies

By JNi.Media

Finance Committee Chairman Gafni (UTJ) said "with all due respect to the Finance Ministry and talks of reform, in practice the prices have not gone down."

Boycott / BDS / Israeli Arabs / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Politics / The Knesset

Heated Debate at Education Committee Emergency Session on Pro-BDS Israeli Academics

By JNi.Media

The Im Tirtzu movement revealed the involvement of 20 Israeli academics in the proposed resolution of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to join the boycott against Israel.

Editorial

Bernie Sanders’s Platform Committee Choices

By Editorial Board

He has strongly criticized Israel’s settlement policy and characterized Israel’s responses to Palestinian terrorism as “disproportionate.”

Government / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Politics / The Knesset

Communist MK at Committee on the Status of Women: 'Our Society Lives in Fear'

By JNi.Media

The committee discussed possible courses of action in light of a recent study that showed Israelis in general have a low sense of personal security.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / European Union / Government / Hamas / Islamists / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Terrorism / The Knesset

Netanyahu: European Position on Hamas, PA Unity is 'Strange'

By Rachel Levy

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Islamist terrorism is "rearing its head" in Europe - and yet the EU praises unity with Hamas.

News Briefs

Hong Kong: Frankel Faced Judge over Airport Theft

By JTA

Jacob Frenkel, who withdrew his candidacy to head the Bank of Israel over accusations that he shoplifted at a duty-free shop in Hong Kong, was arrested and charged with shoplifting, according to Hong Kong government officials. Hong Kong’s Department of Justice said in a written response to a query from the Israeli daily Haaretz that Frenkel in […]

Daniel Pipes / The Lion's Den

The Right Moment for Israel's Danny Danon?

By Daniel Pipes

As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister

Media / News Briefs / Politics

Ha'aretz Journalist to Pay Settlers $50 Thousand for Slander

By Jewish Press Staff

Long-time Ha'aretz columnist Neri Livneh has been ordered by a court to pay $50,000 for slandering two residents of the settlement Itamar.

Haredim & Hassidim / Media / News Briefs

Facebook Pictures Provide New 'Ammunition' for the Committee to Preserve Purity

By Tibbi Singer

Here’s the new method for combating modesty problems: on posters that were displayed publicly on Wednesday in Beitar Illit, Israel, signed by the Committee for the Purity of our Camp, a woman’s picture appeared including her full name and the ‘fact’ that she had gotten married not in accordance with halacha (Jewish law).

News Briefs / Olympics 2012

International Olympic Committee to BBC: Fix Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

The International Olympic Committee has contacted the management of the BBC on Monday, and requested that they correct their listing of Jerusalem to say, Jerusalem - Capital of Israel. This came at the request of Alex Giladi, the Israeli representative on the Olympic Committee.   In a response to an official complaint written by Mark […]

A Soldier's Mother

I Surrender…

By A Soldier's Mother

For weeks now, I've been posting and writing about the International Olympic Committee's pathetic, disgusting and disturbing decision not to grant one moment, sixty seconds, of silence in memory of the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich - not once...in forty years. And today, I read an article about the heightened security concerns.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Politics

Peres: Settlements a threat to Israel

By JTA

At the annual ceremony in memory of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, President Shimon Peres called Judea and Samaria settlements a threat to Israel.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Politics / US

State Dept. Objects to Levy Committee's Legalizing Outposts

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

The State Dept. press director Patrick Ventrell said, "We’ve seen the reports ... but we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity."

Politics / The Knesset / United Nations (UN)

Special Committee: Judea and Samaria Communities Legal, Let Construction Resume

By Malkah Fleisher

The “outposts committee” recommended legalizing and expanding the outposts. Leaders in the region are urging immediate implementation.

News Briefs

Knesset Committee Urges Europeans to Drop Legislation Banning Kosher Slaughter

By Jewish Press Staff

Committee discussion follows wave of European legislation seeking to outlaw "Shechita".

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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By Itamar Frankenthal

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