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Could Netanyahu be putting the government’s stability in the hands of the people who want him out?

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Setting up potential showdown, justices imply they may delay application of law that stops court removing PM; Netanyahu's lawyer: Ouster by unelected official would be unthinkable

  (JNS) — Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has asked the Supreme Court in Jerusalem to strike down a semi-constitutional law that bars judges from ordering a prime minister to recuse himself from office, once again putting her at odds with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. In a filing to the court, Baharav-Miara claimed that […]

  (JNS) The United Torah Judaism Party on Tuesday proposed the passage of a quasi-constitutional Basic Law that would define Torah study as a “core state value,” in a bid to effectively place on par the religious practice with military service and thus codify in perpetuity exemptions for haredim from the IDF. “The State of […]

(JNS) — If Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, strikes down the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset enacted on

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(JNS) — All 15 justices of Israel’s Supreme Court will hear the petitions asking them to cancel the “reasonableness law” that the Knesset

Yuens ex-wife, son and daughter are taken in for questioning by national security police, reports say.