Palestinian doctors to walk out after PA backtracks on deal
Middle East Monitor / September 12, 2023
The Palestinian Doctors’ Syndicate has ordered all its members to walk out at 6pm local time today after the Palestinian Authority failed to follow through with agreements it made with the body yesterday.
Medical staff were due to walk out today but...
Lapid: Reports of talks between Gantz, Netanyahu are untrue
Middle East Monitor / September 12, 2023
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that reports indicating that talks were being held between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the opposition National Unity Party, Benny Gantz, to reach a consensus on the “judicial reform” plan, are “deceitful...
Israel’s contentious legal overhaul comes to a head as judges hear cases on their...
Julia Frankel
AP / September 12, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where Supreme Court judges...
An anti-migrant offensive in Israel
Alex Kane
Jewish Currents / September 12, 2023
Recent police violence against Israel’s Eritrean minority is a window into the government’s escalating hostility towards non-Jewish immigrants.
On September 2nd, Israeli police opened fire on a crowd of hundreds of Eritreans in Tel Aviv. The police were responding to street fighting outside a contentious...
Israeli academics and artists call on Biden and UN to shun Netanyahu during his...
AP / September 12, 2023
JERUSALEM – Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the United States next week, underlining the divide between Israel’s far-right government and segments...
What is Israel’s judicial overhaul about and what happens next ?
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / September 12, 2023
Constitutional crisis on cards as supreme court justices are asked to consider curbing their own powers.
Israel’s Supreme Court has begun hearing challenges to the first plank of the far-right and ultra-religious government’s wide-ranging changes to the judiciary passed by the Knesset...
Israeli Supreme Court hears first challenge to Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul
Isabel DeBre
AP / September 12, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Supreme Court heard the first challenge Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put it on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
Netanyahu’s coalition, a...
UK’s James Cleverly lauds Israeli democracy in wake of fierce anti-government protests
Thomas Helm
The National / September 12, 2023
Britain's Foreign Secretary will visit Palestine on Tuesday.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary hailed Israeli democracy during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the evening before the country's Supreme Court began ruling on a government policy that critics say could lead to a democratic and...
Protests in Israel as Supreme Court hears challenge to judicial curbs
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / September 12, 2023
Striking down of ‘reasonableness’ clause abolishing ability to overrule government could trigger constitutional crisis.
Israel’s Supreme Court justices have begun hearing petitions against a key part of the rightwing government’s judicial overhaul limiting the court’s powers, a development that could trigger an...
Netanyahu: No one can stop the judicial reform bill
Middle East Monitor / September 12, 2023
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that he will not allow anyone to prevent reaching a settlement on the judicial reform.
The statement comes after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir hinted that Netanyahu may “surrender” to those opposed...
