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Israel MK Chikli: I Have Come to Rebel Against the Winds That Want to Put Out the Menorah By Yoni Weiss YERUSHALAYIM - Yamina MK Amichai Chikli. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ​​First-time MK Amichai Chikli (Yamina) delivered his inaugural speech in the Knesset Plenum on Tuesday and said, “Some people in this building call me a rebel. I wish I were worthy of that title. Jewish history is replete​ with rebellions. Avraham rebelled against his father’s idolatry; Moshe rebelled against Pharaoh. We are part of a small nation that, in order to preserve its identity and freedom, the oil ...

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Photo Credit: Yossi Aloni/Flash90 Israeli police stand in a street in the mixed city of Lod while Arab rioters are raging nearby, May 12, 2021. Minister of Homeland Security Amir Ohana (Likud) ​replied on Wednesday in the Knesset Plenum to a parliamentary question by MK Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) on forming a commission of inquiry to examine police conduct during the riots in the mixed cities several weeks ago, and also replied to a parliamentary question by MK Yosef Taieb (Shas) regarding the campaign to collect illegal weapons, which are possessed by and large by Israeli Ara...

The Knesset plenum, May 10, 2021. On Monday, the Knesset Plenum passed in a preliminary reading the Settlements and Neighborhoods in Regulation Procedures Bill, and Basic Law: Override (Legislative Amendments), both pieces of legislation bringing hope to the right-wing lawmakers who have been pushing them stubbornly but with little success over several years. The Settlements and Neighborhoods in Regulation Procedures Bill, 5781-2021, sponsored by MKs Orit Strock (Religious Zionism), Ze’ev Elkin (New Hope), and Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism), determines that the regulation procedures o...

Deputy Health Minister MK Yoav Kisch (Likud). Deputy Health Minister MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) said at Wednesday’s session of the Knesset Plenum that approved coronavirus restrictions in public transport and workplaces that in his estimate, should Israel’s morbidity rate continue to drop, “we will be able to lift the [coronavirus] restrictions entirely in three weeks” – presumably the last week in May. Kisch called it an “amazing achievement.” According to the health ministry, there were only 100 new verified Corona patients on Wednesday, based on 36,786 test results. As...