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Featured / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Government

Bennett: Instead of Curbing Gaza Fuel Supplies – Kill Terrorists

By JNi.Media

"The big battle is between Habayit Hayehudi, which will be pulling to the right in all areas, versus the center-left, which is Yisrael Beiteinu."

Featured / Politics / Government / The Knesset / Diaspora / Aliyah / Geulah / Africa / Assimilation

MK Smotrich: Keep the Falash Mura in Africa

By JNi.Media

The Falash Mura are members of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Eritrea who converted to Christianity over the past two centuries.

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel

Attorney Ben-Gvir Advocates Removing Kahane Movement's Terrorist Designation

By JNi.Media

Attorney Ben-Gvir wrote the AG: "It is clear to any knowledgeable person that the government's decision was a political ploy designed to silence the opposition."

Featured / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / Bedouin

Civil Rights Group: Shaked's Polygamy Recommendations Reward Criminals

By JNi.Media

Netanyahu called it "a huge industry that provides an incentive to bring women from Jordan and Saudi Arabia."

Featured / The Muqata

What if Ayelet Shaked Joined the Likud?

By JoeSettler

David Bitton started no small amount of rumors, that Netanyhau offered Shaked the slot right below his in the Likud party.

Government / The Knesset / The Temple Mount

Netanyahu Revokes Ban on MKs Temple Mount Visits

By JNi.Media

"Netanyahu will not tell Muslims, MKs and others, when to enter and when to pray. For non-Muslims, there is nothing to look for in that place," MK Haneen Zoabi declared.

Featured / IDF & Security / Government / Business and Economy

Civil Service Commission to Declare Employment Preferences for IDF, National Service Veterans

By JNi.Media

The new civil service policy intends to replace the need for legislation, the Civil Service Commission announced.

Featured / The Knesset / Boycott / BDS

Knesset Committee Disregards Counsel's Opinion, Approves Fines for Boycotts

By JNi.Media

The committee's legal advisory team recommended that “alternatives to the proposed arrangement should be considered that would be congruent with accepted constitutional tests.”

Featured / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Knesset Disqualifies Arab Bill Rejecting Israel as a Jewish State

By JNi.Media

The decision to ban a Knesset debate on the proposed “Basic Law: A Country of All Its Citizens” was adopted by a vote of 7-2. MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) abstained.

Featured / Politics / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Knesset Gives Preliminary Approval to Turning to Halacha in Absence of Clear Laws

By JNi.Media

The notion presented by the authors of the bill that Jewish halacha is a well-defined body of law, a streamlined set of answers to judicial questions, if you will, is absurd.

Featured / Politics / Government / Business and Economy

Habayit Hayehudi MK: Finance Minister Liquidating JNF in Election Stunt

By JNi.Media

"The government of Israel tramples on agreements that it signed with the JNF as recently as the previous budget, making clear that it cannot be trusted to honor its obligations," MK Smotrich said in a statement Tuesday.

Headline / Politics / Government / The Courts / The Knesset / Jerusalem

MKs Begin Work Amid Investigations, Controversy, Criminal Investigations

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

MKs will debate laws to legalize the Jewish character of the state, and to limit the power of the Supreme Court.

Featured / Jewish / Politics / Government / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Man of the Year

Jewish Man and Woman of the Year 5777: Bezalel Smotrich and Ayelet Shaked

By JNi.Media

Both Smotrich and Shaked have shown their ability to mobilize considerable political might in the pursuit of their ideas

Featured / Politics / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Religious Zionist Political Conference Unanimously Adopts Aggressive Sovereignty Policy Paper

By JNi.Media

Referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Smotrich said: 'Never will there be an Arab state between the sea and the Jordan.'

Featured / Politics / Government / On Campus / Education

Friday or Not, It's Sept. 1, So 2,272,000 students, 180,000 Teachers Are Off to School

By JNi.Media

"I know that all these involve endless work, after-school and into the night. And for that, I give thanks and appreciation in my name and in the name of Israeli society," Education Minister told Israeli teachers.

Featured / Politics / Palestinian Authority / Media / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Religion

According to Muslim Dignitaries, this Picture Shows Jews 'Storming' Al Aqsa Mosque

By JNi.Media

In the picture there's only one occupying force, way back, behind the nice storming lady in the green shirt. All the other occupying forces were probably having lunch at the time.

Headline / Jewish / Politics / Government / The Knesset / The Temple Mount

Glick on Temple Mount Pilot: I Won't Be Netanyahu's Guinea Pig

By JNi.Media

MK Glick responded acerbically to Netanyahu's "gesture," suggesting it was a hoax the PM is staging ahead of his government's response to a petition he filed with the High Court of Justice against the ban.

Featured / Politics / The Courts / The Knesset / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

High Court Suspends 'Regulation Act' Designed to Spare Jewish Homes from Demolition

By JNi.Media

Some have argued that Mandelblit just established a dangerous precedent in Israel's mishmash of the branches of government, whereby the Knesset would have to await the court's approval for its legislation, as would the government depend on the court's not to execute new laws.

Headline / Israel / Business and Economy

Kachlon Vows to Fight Real Estate Investors as MK Yogev Offers Alternative Plan

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's Supreme Court shot down Kachlon's social engineering plan to tax 3rd apartments.

Headline / Politics / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Defense Ministry: Settlements' Regulation Act Favors Arabs

By JNi.Media

While the law prevents enforcement against 2,000 structures belonging to Israelis, it is also making it difficult for the authorities and the IDF to act against more than 10,000 illegal Arab structures.

Headline / Politics / Government / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Ministers Approve Bill Requiring Judea, Samaria Arab Land Petitions to Start in District Courts

By JNi.Media

The bill would reduce the great burden borne by the Supreme Court in its role as High Court of Justice, for which the justices would surely be grateful.

Headline / Politics / Anti-Israel NGOs / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / On Campus / Education / Religion

Hebrew U Graduation Ceremony Scraps Hatikvah to Spare Arabs' Feelings

By JNi.Media

As is typical in such instances, the institute of high learning chose to be right rather than smart.

Featured / Politics / Government / Elections / The Knesset

Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Election Thursday – Bennett Expected to Sweep

By JNi.Media

The presumably lackluster pro-Bennett voters could be outnumbered by pro-Branski voters; the first group may not bother to show at the polls, the other will be charged up.

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / The Knesset / Islamists / Israeli Arabs

Ayelet Shaked Appoints First Female Qadi

By JNi.Media

Many Arab Muslim scholars disagree with women's qualification to be Qadis.

Headline / Politics / Government / Elections / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Rightwing Ministers Told Netanyahu: Settlements Freeze Would Mean New Elections

By JNi.Media

'We made it clear that any approval of a freeze, including outside the blocks, is a red line for us and we would not continue to sit in the government in such a case.'

Featured / US / Politics / Government / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

Talks with Trump on Curbing Settlement Construction Suspended

By JNi.Media

MK Smotrich called on his colleagues on the right to keep their finger on the pulse and not allow Netanyahu 'dissolve the construction effort.'

Featured / Headline / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel

Showdown: Poll Shows Shaked Gets 3 Seats More than Bennett

By JNi.Media

Shaked is probably the most popular rightwing minister today, the only politician in her camp who managed to tame the Supreme Court and clip some of its claws.

Politics / Government / The Courts / The Knesset

Habayit Hayehudi Submits Law Regulating High Court's Interaction with Legislators

By JNi.Media

The bill's sponsors also claim that Justice Barak's constitutional revolution 'disrupted the delicate balance between the legislative and judicial branches.'

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / The Knesset / Settlements

Report: Shaked Refusing to Appoint Anti-Settlements Justice as Supreme Court President

By JNi.Media

Shaked is not ready to commit to the new appointment which, in Hayut's case, would undermine the central agenda of Habayit Hayehudi.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / The Knesset

'Ghattas Law' Seeks to Revoke Salaries, Pensions of MKs Convicted on Security Charges

By JNi.Media

It is inconceivable that the Israeli public should pay out of its own pocket the pensions of MKs convicted of supporting terror and harming Israel’s security.

Featured / Religious & Secular in Israel

Survey: 36% of Secular Jews Want to Leave Israel

By JNi.Media

The highest rate of those who wish to leave was among secular Jews, where 36% said they would have left. Among religious Jews only 7% expressed the same wish.

Featured / Headline / Israel / Politics / The Courts

Justice Danziger to Retire in a Year, Tipping Court Balance Rightward

By JNi.Media

Danziger sided with Mustafa Dirani, kidnapper of IAF navigator Ron Arad, who wanted to sue Israel for his harsh interrogation.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

At Last: Knesset Plenum Begins 3-Day Debate on 'Settlement Regulation' Bill

By JNi.Media

PM Netanyahu has been on both sides of the fence regarding the new bill, but mostly, people in his circle explained, out of fear of retribution from the Obama Administration.

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

Bennett in Ma'aleh Adumim: It's Either Sovereignty or Palestine

By JNi.Media

'we are in a narrow window of opportunity, it's our last chance before the world forces on us a terror state along Route 6.'

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

Israel's 'Muezzin Law' with Tougher Fines Submitted for Preliminary Knesset Vote

By JNi.Media

'Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens in the Galilee, Negev, Jerusalem and other locations in central Israel suffer routinely and daily from the noise caused by the PA systems of houses of worship.'

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.'

Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / On Campus / Education

Shaked: Court's Intervention in Knesset, Government Work Distorts Democracy

By JNi.Media

'A judicial branch that intervenes in the legally created product of the legislative or executive branches is not adhering to the democratic model and it is our duty to bring it back on track.'

NY / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Bennett Asking Trump Advisors to Substitute Palestinian Autonomy for State

By JNi.Media

Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.

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

Knesset Approves Arrangements Act in Preliminary Vote 58 - 50

By JNi.Media

Both Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) warned that the bill would be suspended should it meet resistance from the Supreme Court.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Islamists / Religious & Secular in Israel / Israeli Arabs

Haredim Block Muezzin Law, Say It Threatens Pre-Shabbat Siren

By JNi.Media

Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

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

Bennett, Netanyahu, Clash over Amona, Regulations Act

By JNi.Media

A whopping 25 out of Netanyahu's 30 Knesset Members have signed a commitment to pass the Arrangements Act, which would force a war between the government and the high court.

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

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.

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

Right Won't Budge as AG Rejects 'Softer' Regulations Act

By JNi.Media

"Gone are the days when the politicians were guests and the jurists owned the house," say Likud and Habayit Hayehudi MKs.

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

Minister Ariel: If AG Can't Defend Law Saving Amona, Let's Get an Attorney Who Can

By JNi.Media

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) may end up being the politician who broke the iron hold of the judicial civil service on Israel's democracy.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Habayit Hayehudi: Amona Stays or We Leave

By JNi.Media

It remains to be seen which way Netanyahu will cleverly evade this crisis, and whether or not he is prepared to either arm wrestle the high court or put down a rightwing rebellion in his own party.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Gloves Are Off as Cabinet Revives Settlement Division

By JNi.Media

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni recommended that the next government (which she expected to head) dismantle the division by blocking its state budget. Without a budget, the division was expected to wither and die.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Bennett: We Must Sacrifice to Preserve Judea and Samaria

By JNi.Media

Habayit Hayehudi is facing an existential dilemma these days, as many of its voters have said they'd rather see their elected representatives leave government than participate in the decision to uproot the Amona residents.

Jewish / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset

Justice Minister Shaked Issues Manifesto on Jewish Democracy, Based on the Teachings of Chief Justice Barak

By JNi.Media

Alongside the need to restrain the legislator, Shaked sees a dire need to restrain Israel's expansionist Judiciary.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Woman of the Year 5776: Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

By JNi.Media

The High Court continues to take notice of Shaked, and has been noticeably mindful of the need to avoid unnecessary friction with a Justice Minister who is probably the most popular minister in Israel.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Agriculture Minister: Israeli Farmers Will Export Cannabis in Two Years

By JNi.Media

The program regulating the medical cannabis industry was approved by the Israeli government some two months ago.

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

New Poll Sees Israeli Left Collapsing, Purely Rightwing Coalition Government

By JNi.Media

The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Anti-Israel NGOs

Raucous Knesset Passes NGO Foreign Funding Transparency Bill

By JNi.Media

When MK Slomiansky read from a list of just how much money some leftwing NGO received from abroad the opposition benches went on the warpath, drowning his voice with their angry shouting.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Science and Tech / Settlements

Official: Water Crisis in Samaria Caused by Arabs Stealing 400 Million Gallons a Year

By JNi.Media

Meanwhile, on the Palestinian Authority side, the responsibility for the shortage is being placed squarely on Israel.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy / Health and Medicine

Knesset to Vote on Paternity Leave

By JNi.Media

"This is the beginning of a significant revolution. I stayed at home for three months with each of my children after they were born, and I enjoyed it very much."

Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religion

New Bill Revokes Get-Refusing Inmates' 'Mehadrin' Kosher Food, Boarding Privileges

By JNi.Media

"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Tunnel Digging Part of New War on Terror Law Passed by Knesset

By JNi.Media

Altogether, the new law cancels out two laws, two orders, and dozens of emergency Defense Regulations. It also modifies a long list of sub-items in as many as 14 existing laws.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Judea & Samaria

Minister Ariel: Liberman's 2-State Statement Nothing More than 'Verbal Maneuvering'

By JNi.Media

"Last year MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Camp) tried to pass the Arab initiative in the Knesset and the Likud rejected it."

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset

Shaked Drops Bomb: Habayit Hayehudi Ready for New Elections

By JNi.Media

A Friday Channel 1 News poll gives Bennett's party 14 seats in a new election, with Likud shrinking from 30 to 27 seats, Labor chopped down from 24 to 11, and Lieberman gaining 2, from 6 to 8 seats.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Analysis: Bennett Threatening to Walk If Bibi Gives Shaked's Justice Portfolio to Bougie

By JNi.Media

The dynamo working tirelessly to promote a Likud-Labor coalition has been Finance Minister Kahlon, who is facing a serious challenge from his permanent foe Yair Lapid.

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

Justice Minister Commits to Enforcing Sovereignty in Area C

By JNi.Media

"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."

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