Member of Knesset Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid) has joined media personality Miki Haimovich in promoting the “Meatless Mondays” initiative. Lipman hopes to bring Meatless Mondays to the Knesset. Lipman met with Haimovich to discuss the possibility of a Meatless Mondays Knesset Lobby, which would promote vegetarianism, or simply a reduction in meat consumption, in order […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times August 5, 2013 “Lunacy.” That’s how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian Authority as a “goodwill gesture.” He’s hardly alone, as many observers (including myself) are outraged by this move. But Danon, 42, has a unique place in this […]
A storm erupted in the Knesset plenum Wednesday when Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich answered a parliamentary query regarding the police’s closure of the Temple Mount to Jews on Tuesday, the fast of Tisha B’Av, in which Jews mourn the destruction of the holy Temples in Jerusalem. MK Yariv Levin (Likud), who filed the query, […]
A law that would have provided a “balance” between the release of Arab terrorist prisoners and Jewish prisoners was soundly defeated in the Knesset on its first reading Wednesday. Fifty three MKs voted against, while only nine voted in favor – almost all of them from Shas, which proposed the law. Only one coalition MK […]
The Knesset on Wednesday passed on its preliminary reading a law that would forbid the import and sale of foie gras, the delicacy made of goose liver than animal rights groups have condemned because of the cruel practices farmers use to produce it. The law was proposed by MK Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid), who was […]
Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein wrote a letter of protest Sunday to his British counterpart, MP John Bercow, after a hidden camera video showed a British MP making an offensive anti-Semitic remark regarding a female IDF soldier he encountered on a visit to Israel. The MP resigned last week. “I was shocked to hear about […]
Muslim MK Ibrahim Sarsour (Ra’am-Ta’al) has reintroduced legislation that would lower the threshold for what is considered a racist offense and would ban the publication of materials that disparage the prophet Muhammad through a “cartoon, defamation and insult,” the Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported on Tuesday. Sarsour is one of three sponsors of the bill, all […]
A group of Israeli protestors demonstrated against a Memorial Day event that commemorated the lives of IDF soldiers who fell in battle – and the lives of the terrorists they fought against. The leftist “Lochamim Leshalom” (“Fighting for Peace”) group were faced with dozens of parents of Israelis killed in terror attacks, and IDF soldiers […]
In her first speech at the Knesset plenum on Monday, MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) had a message for President Barack Obama: Bring Jonathan Pollard with you when you come to Israel. Pollard is currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison on allegations of spying for Israel. “At this moment, I want to […]
Israel’s mysterious Prisoner X, believed to be an Australian citizen named Ben Zygier who allegedly committed suicide in an Israeli prison in 2010, was under investigation by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), an Australian newspaper revealed on Wednesday. According to the report, ASIO had suspected Zygier of using his Australian passport to spy for […]
