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Judges Moshe Bar-Am, Rebecca Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham, L-R. (Justice Ministry) Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who recently formed a new political party running in the upcoming elections, attacked Justice Minister Benny Gantz for caving to Netanyahu, after Gantz said several weeks ago that he wouldn’t allow the premier to manipulate the lockdown timing to nix his own trial hearing. Huldai’s No.2 in the new “The Israelis” party is Avi Nissenkorn, the justice minister until recently wh...

Shadow government As our institutions have retreated, private capital has emerged as a shadow government. Banks command our economy, the shareholder class commands the politicians, and big tech reigns over it all. Our idolatry of innovators equates wealth with virtue, and does not hold the innovator class, or their firms, to the same standards as old economy firms (or the general population). Twenty-four hours after a failed coup, the lead story on Twitter is Elon Musk becoming the wealthiest m...

8 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus lawyers, Boaz Ben Tzur (right) and Amit Hadad (second right), at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on December 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) While rejecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to delay a hearing in his corruption trial scheduled for next week, the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday evening signaled a potential problem in the prosecution’s case, by ordering the attorney general to hand over “without ...

Israeli Elections Will be Another Referendum on Netanyahu | Opinion Marc Schulman , Newsweek Columnist and Editor of historycentral.com On 12/29/20 at 7:00 AM EST I find it hard to believe I am writing about Israels fourth Knesset election in two years. As Israel copes with its third wave of the COVID-19 virus, and will likely enter its third lockdown, the Israeli parliament has officially disbanded, automatically triggering a new election. The technical cause for the fall of...

The Israeli Left is Far From Dead If the Likud and its coalition partners do not win 61 seats in the upcoming elections, the left will continue to control the national agenda regardless of what the public thinks. (JNS) Over the past several weeks, Israel’s political commentators have repeatedly declared the demise of the political left. On the face of things, they are right. The polls all show that the right-religious bloc will win a comfortable majority in the Knesset elections scheduled fo...

ANALYSIS: As many of us head off on summer breaks, now is a good time to reflect on our potential for stupidity.

Interviewed by CBS News, Sluder’s arrogant justfication for his trip went viral. If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not gonna let it stop me from partying […] about two months we’ve had this trip planned. A week later — now an international “celebrity” for all the wrong reasons — he was forced to issue a grovelling apology. If you think Sluder’s partying was stupid, we share your feelings. With the festive season upon us, as the pandemic continues, we...

Eleven Supreme Court justices have been summoned to decide whether or not to accept thirteen leftist human rights NGOs and political parties’ appeal challenging what is known as the “Nation Law” in Israel: the determination that “Israel is the Nation-State of the Jewish People.” Eran Lev, the lawyer who is appealing on behalf of the far left-wing Meretz party, told the judges that this law contradicts another Basic Law in Israel called the law of “Human Dignity and Liberty.” Sinc...

The Nation-State Law had its day in court, as did the farce of Israeli democracy During the hearing, the High Court justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and claimed that equality is something best left for the future. Attorneys arrive to the Supreme Court for a hearing on petitions put forth against the Jewish Nation-State Law, Jerusalem, December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Two-and-a-half years after the Knesset passed the Jewish Nation-State Law, which constitutio...

Explained: Why Israel’s controversial nation state law is being challenged in Supreme Court Israel is scheduled to hold its fourth elections in two years after the country’s two main parties in its unity government failed to meet a deadline in a dispute over government budgets. Updated: December 24, 2020 4:09:37 pm Informally known as the ‘nation state law’, the ‘Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People’ is one of the 14 Basic Laws or const...