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6 shares A protester holds symbolic scales of justice outside the District Court in Jerusalem, as Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Since April 1, Israel has been without a justice minister, or even an acting justice minister, the latest unprecedented situation in a series of unprecedented situations wrought by the nation’s ongoing political logjam and, many say, the prime minister’s criminal trial. The lack of a justice minister in a countr...

List The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. 2  How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Allen Lane, $48) From the New York Times review: “Power comes in many forms, from geothermal and nuclear to congressional and economic; it’s wonderful that Gates has decided to work hard on climate qu...

48 shares An election campaign billboard for Israels Blue and White opposition party led by Benny Gantz (R) depicting him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party, hangs in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 14, 2021, ahead of the March 23 general election. The writing in Hebrew reads "Benny to the Knesset or Bibi forever". (JACK GUEZ / AFP) Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party has spent the better part of the past month polling just above the 3.25 pe...

“As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses! As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women’s children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.” American Maga...

Follow Feb. 24, 2021 Benny Gantz, the leader of the Kahol Lavan party, has been warning over the past several days of an “April plot.” According to his “nightmare scenario,” if his party fails to secure the minimum 3.25 percent of the vote in the March 23 Knesset election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might dismiss him and the other Kahol Lavan cabinet members from the transitional government. The step, Gantz said, would enable Netanyahu to take advantage of the interim period unt...

Follow Feb. 6, 2021 Between 2009 and 2015, the elections in Israel went like that sports cliché: Soccer is played for 90 minutes and in the end Germany wins. Three times in a row, the president gave Benjamin Netanyahu the mandate to form a government, as a near formality. The tradition was truncated in April 2019, when Avigdor Lieberman broke the chorus line and thwarted another ensured term in office for Netanyahu. And that is how we came to be where we are today. The election procedure in Is...

Follow Feb. 4, 2021 The original sin that split the right-wing bloc, led to the dissolution of the 20th Knesset in December 2018, prevented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government in April 2019 and plunged the country into a whirlpool of elections – from which it has been unable to escape for two years – is back to haunt us again on the eve of the fourth round of elections. But this time, there were those who made sure to take preventative action first. On Tuesday, the g...

An expanded panel of the High Court of Justice, headed by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, will convene Tuesday to hear petitions asking it to overturn an increase i

Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,... The formal identification of Israeli society with its ancestral legacy was embodied in the ceremony in which the state’s establishment was declared. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that Israel would be a Jewish state with values founded on “freedom, justice, and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel.” Those values wer...

Right-wing party heads slam New Hope leader as part of 'failed' unity government; Bennett raps Netanyahu for legitimizing Ra'am party, alleging it's 'Hamas's sister organization'