A controversial bill that would allow Israel’s parliament to vote to suspend members for inappropriate behaviour – and which is seen as targeting lawmakers who are Palestinian citizens of Israel – passed into law on Tuesday night. Under the law’s stipulations, the Knesset can now kick out a member for[…]
The Ethics Committee of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, decided to uphold a provision Tuesday prohibiting members of the Knesset (MK), both Jewish and Palestinian, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a press release from the Israeli Knesset. The measure was implemented in November by the Ethics Committee amid a[…]
At least 28 out the Israeli parliament’s 32 female members have experienced sexual harassment or assault, and at least two of the cases took place in the Knesset building, a recent survey has found. The survey carried out by Israeli Channel 2 encouraged the lawmakers to speak openly about the[…]
Israel’s Knesset on Monday night passed the first reading of a bill that would allow MKs to expel lawmakers, in what has been roundly condemned as a political campaign launched against the parliament’s Palestinian members. The law could see lawmakers suspended from their duties if voted for by 90 MKs,[…]
Palestinian lawmakers in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, have denounced a parliamentarian’s campaign to ban an influential Arab party from the legislative process. In a video posted on his on Facebook, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu (Israel is Our Home) party, called on Israelis to[…]
The Israeli parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that would allow Palestinian minors under 14 who are facing terrorism charges to be sentenced to time in prison, a Knesset press release said. The bill was approved in a preliminary vote with 64 in favor of the bill and 22 against.[…]
The Knesset passed into law on Monday night an amendment enabling harsher punishments for stone-throwers, a Knesset press release said. The move raised outcry among Palestinian MK’s. As the law stood prior, those who throw stones at cars could be convicted and sentenced for up to 20 years without the state[…]
Arab MK Basel Ghattas said this week that threats by fellow Israeli lawmakers to remove his parliamentary immunity will not affect his decision to take part in the Freedom Flotilla III. The Israeli Knesset Committee reportedly voted in favor Tuesday of stripping Ghattas, a member of the Joint List– the[…]
The hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine question are “dead”, with virtually nothing left for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is according to Palestinian politician, Awad Abdel Fattah who has called for a rethink to the possibility of a single-state instead. Abdel[…]
Some 5,800,000 Israelis are eligible to vote in Tuesday’s election, out of a population of about 8.3 million people. Jews comprise 75 per cent of all Israelis while Arabs make up about 20 per cent. The Arab sector is divided among several religions, including Muslims, Christians and Druze, with some[…]
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