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Two patrol cars near the community s police station were sprayed with graffiti saying “Hello from Ahuvia,” a reference to 16-year-old Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed in the police car chase last week. The vehicles also had their tires slashed and windows broken, while graffiti on the police station s walls had the word “murderers” spray painted on it.
Sandak, a resident of Bat Ayin in the Gush Etzion West Bank settlement bloc, was killed last Monday after police chased him and his friends, who were suspected of throwing stones at Palestinians in the West Bank. Officers crashed into their car from behind, causing it to flip, fatally injuring Sandak and lightly to moderately injuring his friends.
Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian security prisoners
Order defies health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of second group of Israelis to be vaccinated
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana s statement did not single out Palestinian inmates, but there are no non-Palestinian security prisoners in Israel (AFP) By Published date: 27 December 2020 15:47 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Israel s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana told the country s prison service late last week not to inoculate Palestinian security prisoners, an Israeli newspaper has revealed.
The order came despite health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of the second group of Israelis to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus, together with security personnel, Haaretz wrote on Sunday.
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Illustrative: Commander of the Jerusalem District Police, Doron Yedid (C), seen in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim as police close shops and disperse public gatherings, March 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Two senior officers in the Israel Police said Monday that they will be leaving the force, in what some suggest is the first of a wave of resignations over last week’s nomination of Border Police chief Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai to serve as the next commissioner of police.
Superintendents Yossi Bachar and Einat Gil-Tzubari informed interim police chief Motti Cohen of their intention to resign, due to “no longer feeling challenged,” Channel 12 reported.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
Two days before the Knesset is set to dissolve automatically, Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s party denied on Sunday that an agreement to stave off elections had been reached with the Likud party that included reducing the powers of Blue and White’s Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn.
The two parties continued their negotiations over the weekend, with some officials expressing optimism that a deal could be reached in time to pass a quick law postponing the budget deadline for a second time, giving them breathing space to pass more complex legislation regarding the state budget and changes to the current laws anchoring the power-sharing coalition agreement.
Dec. 17, 2020
The Knesset’s legal counsel has clarified that the date for its dissolution, in the event that no state budget is approved for 2020, is midnight on December 23 – namely next Tuesday night. The clarification was published following a wrong interpretation that determined that it would be Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, Kahol Lavan and Likud are trading accusations regarding the bill for dissolving the parliament that was approved in a preliminary vote earlier this month. A second and third reading would lead to the Knesset’s dissolution even earlier. The vote in a first reading of the bill was postponed twice last week.