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Penalty against Ahmed Moualek for promoting terrorism and making death threats among harshest in recent years for such offenses

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Some reactions on the right to the announcement that a government has been formed that will unseat Netanyahu: Miki Zohar of Likud tweets that it is “a very sad day for Israel” and that “Bennett, Sa’ar and Shaked should be ashamed.” Bezalel Smotrich of Religious Zionism says Bennett “simply carried out his plan from before the election to join Lapid and oust Netanyahu to become prime minister at any cost.” Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Kne...

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Meretz party chairman Nitzan Horowitz, center, attends a protest of the LGBTQ community in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Meretz chair MK Nitzan Horowitz says this morning that his progressive party’s coalition agreement with Yesh Atid “includes a commitment to advance the LGBT community and the [legal] standing of same-sex couples as married.” Meretz would work to carry out that commitment in the new government, Horowitz says. Horowitz’s pledge appears to run counter ...

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