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Two dozen US House Democrats visiting Israel
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A delegation of 24 Democrats from the US House of Representatives will visit Israel this week to discuss the Iranian threat and judicial reform, among other topics
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Israel: IDF Chief of Staff holds discussion with senior brass on reservist
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi on Monday held a discussion with senior IDF officers – mainly generals – on the controversy surrounding the growing number of IDF reservists who are threatening to refuse to report for duty when called up in protest ove
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Israeli protesters stage new nationwide protests after Netanyahu pushes bi
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Israeli protesters have staged new nationwide protests days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the bill to limit the judicial powers, according to Al Jazeera.The bill has been passed despite six months of protest against the shakeup of the court system since the country's foundin
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Israeli Supreme Court sets date to hear petitions against judicial reform
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
While scheduling a hearing, the court did not go as far as to issue an emergency injunction against the law, as several of the seven petitioners had requested.
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PM Netanyahu not concerned as Israel downgraded by major credit rating fir
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Major credit rating agencies and financial firms are downgrading Israel’s standing, or issuing new warnings about its economy, in the wake of Monday’s passage of the first part of the government’s controversial judicial reforms. But Prime Minister Netanyahu says he is not too concerned by th
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Israel: Former Defence Minister Benny Gantz calls Netanyahu government ‘cl
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Former Minister of Defence and a current opposition leader in the Knesset Benny Gantz decried Monday’s vote to pass part of the government’s controversial judicial reforms, calling it a difficult day in which “the State of Israel lost.”
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"Major changes in democracy must have broad consensus": White House on Isr
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Reacting over the polarising "Reasonableness" bill in Israel's Knesset, the White House called the "slimmest possible majority" as "unfortunate" and said that major changes in Democracy to be enduring must have as broad a consensus as possible.
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Israel PM Netanyahu undergoes successful pacemaker implantation ahead of f
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has been successfully fitted with a pacemaker in a successful surgery that took place in early hours of Sunday, almost a week after he was admitted to a hospital for dehydration and had a heart monitoring device implanted, The Times of Israel reporte
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Thousands of Israelis march ahead of final votes on judicial bill
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Thousands rallied against the controversial judicial reform bill that faces a final vote early next week, protesters set up a ‘tent city’ near Knesset after the multi-day march, Times of Israel reported.
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Netanyahu attempts to head off strikes in protest over judicial reforms
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The reform plan has met with months of massive demonstrations against it that have seen major highways and city streets blocked to traffic. Many IDF reservists have also been threatening to refuse to perform military service should it pass and this week even saw a general strike carried out
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Benjamin Netanyahu says Opposition threatening Israel’s democracy, not his
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A defiant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the Israeli public Thursday night in a televised broadcast in which he declared his government’s intention to move forward with its controversial judicial reform program. Netanyahu also charged that the opposition is to blame for any failu
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Israel: Anti-government protestors storm stock exchange
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A large number of antigovernment protestors opposed to the judicial reforms planned by the government stormed into the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange building and “occupied” the floor of the exchange. This. However, came before the TASE was scheduled to open trading.
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