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Likud's Hanegbi says Israel will no longer wait for terror groups to fire before taking action, Netanyahu governments made 'mistake' by allowing Gaza rulers to bolster capabilities
Opinion Clementine trees at a field in Moshav Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley, on March 26, 2019. Photo: Anat Hermony/Flash90 JNS.org – Agricultural crimes are the easiest type of crimes to perpetrate and very lucrative. Left to themselves, the perpetrators won’t likely be pursuing a career change any time soon. The Israeli government, together with the Knesset and law-enforcement agencies, must make eradicating this scourge a national objective. When I began studying these crimes and the way they are handled up and down the chain, I came to understand that the primary problem is a severe c...
Israeli farmers need a public-security cabinet Israeli farmers need a public-security cabinet The Israeli government, together with the Knesset and law-enforcement agencies, must make eradicating the scourge of agricultural crime a national objective. (March 16, 2021 / JNS) Agricultural crimes are the easiest type of crimes to perpetrate and very lucrative. Left to themselves, the perpetrators won’t likely be pursuing a career change any time soon. The Israeli government, together with the Knesset and law-enforcement agencies, must make eradicating this scourge a national objective. When I ...
Follow Feb. 26, 2021 For many long weeks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his associates have been toiling to persuade the heads of the ultra-Orthodox parties and Religious Zionism Chairman Bezalel Smotrich to revive the rightist-Haredi bloc. With the exception of Interior Minister Arye Dery (Shas), who agreed enthusiastically and for entirely self-interested electoral reasons, all the others turned up their noses. Netanyahu did not give up. He hounded them. “Even Sara got involved,” said one of the partners. “She made phone calls.” Lengthy and tedious negotiations ensued. Netany...
Why is Israeli settler-terrorism escalating? Israeli forces intervene in Palestinians reacting to Jewish settlers for trying to seize agricultural lands of Palestinians in al-Ras region in Selfit, West Bank on November 30, 2020 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] February 17, 2021 at 9:33 am Terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers have become more frequent in the occupied West Bank. One of the latest victims was Bilal Shehadeh Bawatna, 52, from Al-Bireh, who was killed last Friday when he and his companions were run over by a car driven by a settler in the northern Jordan Valley. Those with him w...