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Anti-overhaul activists block a road during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul near the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Long-overdue judicial reform process finally underway

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Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in a historic process aimed at bringing Israel’s activist Supreme Court in line with the judicial...
Roger Waters. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Drop Roger Waters, dozen-plus Jewish groups urge music company

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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann announced in 2016 that it had, effectively, told Pink Floyd frontman Rogers Waters “Wish You Were Here” and let’s make “Money” while being “Comfortably Numb” to the chutzpah of a company with...
Nikky Haley. Photo by David Isaac.

Haley to AOC: ‘Why does Israel get under your skin?’

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Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, knew exactly where she had seen the sort of double standards shown by nine representatives who voted against a resolution defending the Jewish state from accusations...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again called for broad agreements on his government's plans, July 24, 2023. Credit: GPO.

Netanyahu: ‘All agree that Israel must remain a strong democracy’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again called for broad agreement on his government’s plans in an address to the nation following the unilateral passing of key judicial reform legislation. On Monday afternoon, all 64 members of Netanyahu’s...
A vote on the reasonableness bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Following first stage of judicial reform passage, US Jewish groups pick sides

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The same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from the hospital after pacemaker surgery, the Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition’s judicial reform legislation on Monday. The law bars judges from using...
A vote on the "reasonableness bill" at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Knesset passes first judicial reform bill into law

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The Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition's judicial reform legislation into law on Monday. All 64 members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a procedure to...
Central Election Committee workers count ballots at the Knesset in Jerusalem, two days after the general election, Nov. 3, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Most Israelis unhappy with the state of democracy

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More than half of Israelis are dissatisfied with how democracy works in their country. The results from the Central Bureau of Statistics' 2022 Social Survey on the Perception of Democracy and Civic Engagement were published...
13-year Shmuel Kovetzik (front, center) celebrating his bar mitzvah on July 19, 2023 with his family and the emergency medics who saved his life. Photo by Magen David Adom.

13 years after saving infant, medics join ‘miracle’ bar mitzvah

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In a heartwarming reunion, a team of medics were invited to the recent bar mitzvah celebration of Shmuel Kovetzik in Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv, whose life they saved at birth. “We had a traumatic...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks on the Green New Deal with Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to her right in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 7 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In first, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets with Jewish leaders

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Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is known for her anti-Israel stance, has been meeting for the first time with Jewish leaders in her constituency—the 14th congressional district—in New York, Israel Hayom has learned from sources involved...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the anti-judicial reform protests that have rocked the Israel Defense Forces in recent weeks, July 20, 2023. Credit: GPO.

Netanyahu released from hospital following pacemaker surgery

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from the hospital on Monday morning after undergoing a procedure for the implantation of a cardiac pacemaker. The surgery was performed overnight Saturday at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1683099490708774913 His...