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12,000 foreign workers have returned to Israel since war
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Inbal Mashash, the director of the Population and Immigration Authority's Foreign Workers Administration, testified to the Knesset Committee on Foreign Workers that the 12,000 is made up of new laborers as well as workers who had returned to their homelands after Hamas's October 7 massacres
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Israeli Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli retiring from politics
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli announced that she will not run for leadership of her party or campaign for a Knesset seat in the next elections.
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Hamas drugged hostages before releasing them, Knesset told
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry's medical division, testified to the Knesset Health Committee that the captives were given a tranquilizer which she identified as Clonazepam sometime before they were handed over to Red Cross custody.
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Israel: Benny Gantz Meets with AIPAC Leaders
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The delegation was led by AIPAC President Michael Tuchin.
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Israel: Knesset bill enabling death penalty for terrorists on hold after s
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Knesset legislation allowing for the death penalty to be applied to terrorists will be put on hold pending the approval of Israel's security cabinet, said coalition chairman MK Ofir Katz on Monday
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Israel: 2 Knesset members sanctioned for false claims about Oct 7, war
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The Knesset Ethics Committee voted to sanction Ra'am Party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin and Hadash-Ta'al Party MK Aida Touma-Sliman for their conduct--barring them from parliamentary hearings and votes and withholding their salaries for specified periods.
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Opening of Knesset winter session interrupted by rocket sirens
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The afternoon rocket barrages fired by Gaza terror groups reached Tel Aviv.
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Fight with Hamas is war between light and darkness: Israeli Prime Minister
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
"Even with the passage of 75 years, the war of independence hasn't ended," the prime minister told Israel's Parliament Knesset at the opening session of its winter session.
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Zero politics, zero egos': Knesset begins wartime winter session
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Two and a half months later, Israel is at war. The country is led by a unity government. And in the wake of a devastating Hamas attack on southern communities, reservists of all stripes quickly mobilised.
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Israel Parliament adds 5 ministers to Netanyahu Cabinet
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Thursday approved adding of five National Unity ministers to Benjamin Natanyahu's cabinet.
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Netanyahu says 'every Hamas is a dead man' at announcement of national eme
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
"The Jewish (Israel) Nation is united and now its leadership is also united," declared Netanyahu.
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Benjamin Netanyahu: "Expanding the circle of peace is a historic opportuni
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with President Isaac Herzog, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant attended the state memorial ceremony on Mount Herzl for the fallen of the Yom Kippur War.
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