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The Knesset / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Ministers, Knesset Members Visit Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day

By David Isaac

“It is a great privilege to come here again for the first time as a member of the Knesset,” said Likud MK Dan Illouz.

The Knesset / Judea & Samaria

Knesset Members Visit Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, One Terrorist Killed

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just a week after elections, a number of new and old MKs visited Kever Yosef (Joseph's Tomb) in Shechem on Tuesday night.

Police and Crime / Left vs. Right / The Knesset

Suspect Who Threatened to Murder MK Itamar Ben-Gvir Arrested

By Jewish Press News Desk

The caller pretended to be an Arab policeman who is a pariah to the left.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Coronavirus

Wednesday Morning: 427 Israeli Corona Patients; 2 Minister, 2 MKs in Self-Quarantine

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The majority of the patients are in light condition, 10 are in moderate condition and five are in serious condition.

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Hamas / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Ghattas to Plead Guilty, Two Years Jail Expected

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

State prosecutors will also ask the court to attach a clause of moral turpitude to the confession.

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Likud MK: In Israel We Change Governments with Police Coups

By JNi.Media

MK Amsalem is working on a bill to prohibit the investigation of a prime minister in office on violations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.

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

UPDATE: Knesset Committee Votes to Remove MK Ghattas' Immunity

By JNi.Media

MK Ghattas will be allowed by law to appear at the Knesset Committee and argue his case, following which the committee would vote on whether or not it recommends a vote at the plenum on removing his immunity.

IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Police Summon Arab MK Ghattas on Suspicion of Security Violations

By JNi.Media

The Balad party on Sunday morning revealed that party politburo member Nibin Abu Rahmoun has also been interrogated by police.

Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

MK Begin Suspended for Voting Against Amona Regulation Act

By JNi.Media

'It's well known that when a coalition MK votes against the government line he knows he's going to pay a price.'

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

PM Kicks Out Habayit Hayehudi MK for Saying Netanyahu Isn't Rightwing

By JNi.Media

MK Bezalel Smotrich said, 'Apparently, had Netanyahu been in charge instead of Ben Gurion, we would not have had a state. Ben Gurion had courage, he established a state against all odds.'

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

MK Begin Begging Netanyahu to Permit Destruction of Amona

By JNi.Media

The Likud MKs who, unlike Begin, had actually been elected by Likud voters, all voiced their enthusiastic support for the Regulations Act and urged Netanyahu to promote it.

Baseball Insider

1956: Nasser, Larsen, And A Rebbi’s Slap

By Irwin Cohen

For Americans, baseball provided an escape, and Jewish Americans followed the exploits of their favorite teams and of the relatively few Jews who wore baseball uniforms.

Terrorism / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Islamists / The Temple Mount

Arab Preacher gets 8 Months for Inspiring Assassination Attempt on MK Glick

By JNi.Media

A Jewish young man with hardly any influence, who was convicted last March of possessing a document that was never disseminated, was given two years in prison.

Op-Eds

Mrs. Tzipi, MK Livni and the Demonization of Israel

By Matan Peleg

At the same time that MK Livni condemns those who seek to convict her and other Israeli officials while abroad — she does the exact opposite in Israel.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Haredi MK Blocks Train Funding over Shabbat Works

By JNi.Media

Transport Ministry officials threatened that "if it turns out Gafni is operating out of political considerations we will view it seriously and act accordingly."

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Media / Israeli Arabs

Arab Journalist Attacks Arab MK Who Said Peres Was Covered in Arab Blood

By JNi.Media

"You don't represent me," Aharish told Ghattas, "nor the hundreds of Arab children who are taking part in coexistence projects sponsored by Shimon Peres, while you are busy spreading hatred, incitement and distance between nations."

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media / Israeli Arabs

Arab MK Maligns the Dying Shimon Peres

By JNi.Media

MK Ghattas wrote that "Peres is covered from head to toe in our blood, and so we don't hasten to contribute to the collective tribal festival of grief and loss."

Jewish / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Former Shas MK: Solve Train Problem the Jewish Way - Use Goyim

By JNi.Media

Amsalem suggested that the clash over the railroad works over the past two Shabbat days was mostly about politics.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Zionist Union MK Broshi Visits Amona Community

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

MK Brosh said, “I hope that the Zionist Union will support any government decision to legalize the structures.”

IDF & Security / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Liberman to Arab MK: Conditions at Checkpoints Are Unreasonable, Harmful

By JNi.Media

"Part of the tradition in the Palestinian Authority is that the same people who at nighttime deal with harming Israel and worked hard to annihilate the State of Israel, during the daytime speak a lot about brotherhood among the nations, peace, and so forth."

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

After Filibuster Knesset Passes 'Dismissal Law' Empowering It to Oust Sitting MK

By JNi.Media

The new law is all but tailor-made for the inequities of one MK — the vociferous Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List).

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Former MK Haim Amsalem Joins Bayit Yehudi

By Shalom Bear

Amsalem plans to run in the Bayit Yehudi primaries.

IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy / Judea & Samaria

MK Yogev: Out of Judea and Samaria Daily 1.98 Million Gallon Shortage, 1.1 Million Due to Arab Theft

By JNi.Media

"For the past two years we have been receiving messages from Mekorot each morning telling us that there is no water in the pipes."

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / News Briefs / Turkey

MK Zoabi: Reparations to Turks an Israeli Admission of Murder

By JNi.Media

On Monday afternoon Prime Minister Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are expected to announce a reconciliation agreement between their two countries.

Politics / Global / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Judaism

MK Glick Gets 93,000 Signatures Supporting Jerusalem's Unity

By JNi.Media

Each year, the printed collection of signatures, bound together in a book, is presented to a different MK.

Uncategorized

Yehuda Glick Sworn In as MK

By Jewish Press News Desk

Glick recited the Hebrew blessing “shehechiyanu” – which is said on special occasions and new experiences.

IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / 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.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Aliyah / Geulah / Africa

Ethiopian MK Meets Visiting African Women, Advocates Merging Israeli Tech with 'Fertile African Soil'

By JNi.Media

Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / The Temple Mount / Religious & Secular in Israel

Newest MK Yehuda Glick: 'The Reform Are Jews and the Chief Rabbis Should Meet them'

By JNi.Media

Glick also said "there should be clear instructions as to how to conduct a wedding ceremony, and just as you don't have to have a rabbi at a circumcision, under the chupah you don't need a rabbi either."

Terrorism / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Arab MK Refuses Holocaust Day Invite, Says It Motivates Humiliating Arabs

By JNi.Media

"The learning of the Holocaust lessons in the state is done selectively and manipulatively."

Terrorism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Arab MK Describes Terrorists As “Precious Sons”

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

One of the three Arab MKs who visited the families of terrorists last Tuesday attempted to justify the actions of the terrorists on Palestinian television yesterday.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Israeli Cabinet Passes "Norwegian Law" Bill

By Shalom Bear

The law allows government ministers to quit the Knesset and be replaced with new MKs who can concentrate on their legislative jobs.

Politics / Elections / News Briefs

High Court Rules Zoabi and Marzel Can Return to Election Race [election]

By Jewish Press News Desk

MK Hanin Zoabi of Balad and Baruch Marzel of Yachad are back in Israel's election race.

Terrorism / Hamas / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / United Nations (UN)

UN Leader Backpedals: ‘No Concrete Evidence’ of Abduction

By Rachel Levy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to be retracting his condemnation of the terror kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens.

News Briefs / The Knesset

MK Tzipi Hotovely Names Her Baby ‘Ma’ayan’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hotovely's family Facebook page was filled with "mazel tovs!" in numerous languages on Monday morning in response to the announcement.

Moshe Feiglin

Pragmatism Or Ideology?

By Moshe Feiglin

The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.

Moshe Feiglin

Civil Liberties and the Governance Act

By Moshe Feiglin

My problem is with the part of the law that requires 61 signatures in order to submit a no-confidence measure in the Knesset, which effectively neutralizes the no-confidence option.

News Briefs / The Knesset

Hotovely Goes Custom

By Jewish Press News Desk

The newly married MK made a decision to go custom.

News Briefs / The Knesset

Mazel Tov Tzipi and Ohr

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tzipi has a lot more important things to celebrate now!

CIFWatch

Condemning Israelis Democracy, While Serving in Knesset

By Adam Levick

The legal impunity Jamal Zahalka will continue to enjoy – the rights of citizenship, and special rights as an MK, afforded him by the very state whose existence he incites against – represents stubborn proof attesting to the continuing vitality of Israeli democracy.

Politics

Gideon Ezra, Former Deputy Head of Shin Bet, Cabinet Minister, and MK, Dies at 74

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Ezra, who was serving as a Kadima MK at the time of his death, was born in Jerusalem in 1937. He served in the IDF's Nahal Paratrooper brigade, and joined the Shin Bet in 1962. Over a career that spanned 33 years, he rose to become the Deputy head of Israel's domestic intelligence organization. Throughout his political career he variously served as Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Environmental Protection.

Parsha

Knesset Minister Rabbi Nissim Zeev: Time To See The Light And Heal

By Rabbi Nissim Zeev

In our time we must always take advantage of the opportunity for a second chance to revive our identity as Jews in Eretz Yisrael, for without the identity of Israel as a Jewish state, we are truly at a spiritual and physical loss.

Knesset Corner

Noam Shalit's First Political Interview

By Jeremy Saltan

Shalit announced that he would talk with them if they agreed to it, and he would even shake the hands of Gilad's kidnappers, also saying he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he was a Palestinian. He insisted that PM Binyamin Netanyahu was not solely responsible for the release of Gilad, and charged that the PM only released his son because the polls showed that 70-80% of the public supported the deal.

News Briefs

Hearing on FM Lieberman's Pending Corruption Indictment Begins

By Jewish Press Staff

Lieberman is accused of receiving "millions of dollars" between 2001 and 2008 while serving as MK and government minister.

News Briefs

Jewish MK Douses Arab MK During Heated Knesset Committee Session

By Jewish Press Staff

MK Anastassia Michaeli throws a cup of water at MK Ghaleb Majadle after he calls her "fascist," tells her to "shut up."

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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