The Knesset’s Defense Committee gave its approval to a law to de-mine Israel on Tuesday. More than 70 MKs have already signed the bill, making it virtually guaranteed to pass when it comes to the Knesset for a vote. Present at Tuesday’s meeting was Daniel Yuval, a child mine victim turned activist whose public appeals […]
by Daniel Pipes January 4, 2011 Mark Lavie, a long-time Associated Press reporter in Israel, should know a thing or two about the politics in that country. But he writes today at “Israel’s Labor: We’ll quit if no progress to peace” about tensions in the ruling coalition that An exit by Labor, a moderate party […]
MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz (National Union) toured this past Tuesday the underground housing sites in Jerusalem in which young couples mostly live, due to the severe shortage of homes for younger people. The tour included the Bayit Vegan neighborhood as well as neighborhoods located in the northern part of the city. Katz, who was joined […]
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) marked the tenth anniversary of its establishment in Israel by organizing a special conference which took place in the Knesset earlier this week. Israel has benefited from the political support of tens of millions of Evangelist Christians in the United States, whose pro-Zionist views are religion-based, but whose political […]
The Knesset’s Law, Constitution and Justice Committee debated a bill Monday that would make it impossible for people from an enemy population to sue Israel and to receive compensation for damage sustained in IDF wartime operations or counter-terror operations. In its ruling on a petition filed by Arab rights group Adalah in December 2006, the […]
