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Knesset Passes 'V-15 Law' to Limit PACs Influence on Elections

By JNi.Media

The new Knesset amendment to the Campaign Finance Law does not deal with the possibility of super PACs.

Government / News Briefs / Politics / The Knesset

One Third of Public Complaints to Israel's Ombudsman 'Justified'

By JNi.Media

"At the Israel Postal Company, for instance, some 69 percent of the complaints were found to be justified."

Gaza / Hamas / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Police and Crime / Politics / The Courts

IDF Chief Cancels Hannibal Directive to Prevent Capture at All Cost

By JNi.Media

The Hannibal Directive was last executed in connection with the kidnapping of Lt. Hadar Goldin of the Givati special force, during the Rafah battle in August 2014, remembered as Black Friday.

Elections / Israel / News Briefs / Politics / Special Features

Report on Housing Crisis to be Released Wednesday Night

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The State Comptroller and Ombudsman will release his report on the housing crisis at 6 p.m. (11 a.m. EST) Wednesday night. The report will cover the Olmert and Netanyahu administrations, letting Tzipi Livni and Yitzchak Herzog off the hook. They were Ministers of Housing in the Sharon government. The Likud party is concerned that the […]

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Putting Things Back Into Proportion

By Photo of the Day

A State Comptroller audit report just came out attacking the prime minister for spending too much money on maintaining his residences and other official entertaining related expenses, and on how the money was spent. David Shimron, the attorney of the Likud political party spoke at a press conference in Tel Aviv comparing the expenditures of […]

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Miriam Ben-Porat: A Woman of ‘Firsts’

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Miriam Scheinsohn was born on April 26, 1918, in Vitebsk (Belorussia), the youngest of eight children (she had three sisters and four brothers). Soon after Miriam’s birth the family moved to Kovno (Kaunas) in Lithuania, where her parents owned a textile factory.

News Briefs

Miriam Ben-Porat (94)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Miriam Ben-Porat, Israel's first female Supreme Court President died on Thursday at the age 94. She was also Israel's first female State Comptroller. Ben-Porat was born in Russia in 1918, and moved to Israel in 1936. She graduated with a degree in law in 1945. Ben-Porat is survived by a daughter and three grandchildren.

News Briefs / Politics

Olmert Acquitted on Most Charges, Convicted on Breach of Trust

By Jacob Edelist

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was "only" convicted of breach of trust, making him the first Israeli PM ever to be convicted of a criminal offense.

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Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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