Posts Tagged: Israel Knesset
Knesset Committee Approves Raising Electoral Threshold, Limiting Government Ministers
Ynet - The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approved on Monday the Governance Bill, seeking to raise the electoral threshold and limit the number...
21 MKs Urge Netanyahu Against Judea and Samaria Construction Freeze
JNS.org - A group of 21 deputy ministers and Members of Knesset sent a letter on Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Bill Would Amend Israel’s Education Law to Push Teaching of ‘Jewish State’
JNS.org - The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill Sunday to amend Israel's national education law to include a clause emphasizing teaching...
Knesset Panel Approves Plan to Unify Chief Rabbinate
Ynet - The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill proposal on Sunday that would merge Israel's two chief rabbi positions into a single...
Knesset Bill Seeks to Cut Budgets of Israeli Elected Officials
Ynet- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's finances are under scrutiny once again, weeks after Israelis were scandalized to discover that he and his wife Sara had...
Knesset Seeks to Become ‘Greenest’ Parliament in the World
Ynet - As a legislature that passes environmental laws, the Knesset must practice what it preaches, Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (Likud-Yisrael Beitenu) said Wednesday during the...
Jordan Valley Annexation Bill Approved by Israeli Ministerial Committee
JNS.org - Israel's Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday approved a bill proposed by MK Miri Regev (Likud) that would apply Israeli law to...
At Knesset Session With Terror Victims MKs Oppose Release of Convicts
Israel's Knesset held a special meeting Wednesday morning between families who have lost loved ones to terrorism and Israeli Parliament members, Israeli daily Ma'ariv reported. The...
Judaism and the Legalization of Marijuana?
Currently, the Knesset is debating the issue of legalizing pot. To be more accurate, it is debating legalizing pot for medical reasons. This"Ž is a position...
Israeli Knesset Members Get an Education in American Jewry
JNS.org - Israeli Member of Knesset Nachman Shai (Labor), who studied and worked in the U.S. for years, says he had no idea how...
Israeli Party Yesh Atid Pushing Bill to Raise Election Threshold
Times of Israel - Israel has seen 33 governments in 65 years, with governments that often last barely half as long as their legally...
Stephen Hawking Rejects the Zionism of Einstein
Has Stephen Hawking really left the company of Albert Einstein, an avowed Zionist who worked to create the State of Israel, and replaced him with...
As Netanyahu’s Coalition Building Efforts Intensify, Whispers of New Israeli Elections Emerge
It has been more than a month since the Israeli elections and so far all Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has to show for his coalition...
In Knesset Opening Ceremony, New Members Sworn In, Record Number of Women
The 120 members of the 19th Knesset were sworn in Tuesday in an opening ceremony presided over by Labor's Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, the senior-most MK...
