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Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio Gertler’s lawyers were informed of this in a private letter. According to the letter, the sanctions imposed on Gertler starting in December 2017 would officially remain in place, but would be effectively suspended for a year. The sanctions had barred Gertler from conducting any business in U.S. dollars. Working on Gertler’s behalf were attorney Alan Dershowitz, who had defended Trump during his first impeachment proceeding, and former FBI director Louis Freeh. Dershowitz and Freeh were both formally registered to lobby the U.S. gove...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio He said the Jewish community "stands behind Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper as the focus shifts from the overly long extradition process to the forthcoming trial.” Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler welcomed the footage of Malka Leifer boarding the plane. “That Leifer was allowed to escape justice for so long was a travesty”, he said. “While it’s a relief that Israel’s justice system has finally prevailed, the time and process that resulted in these delays are completely unacceptable.” Leibler said L...

Follow Jan. 25, 2021 The Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank uprooted some 3,000 olive trees near the Palestinian village of Dir Balut in the northern West Bank this month, although the Palestinian residents had filed an appeal of the order evicting them from the land. The eviction was ordered in August based on the government’s stance that the trees were planted on state-owned land. A private lawyer representing the government on the appeal filed a response in the case six days after the trees were uprooted, but a source at the Civil Administration told Haaretz that Civil Adminis...

Follow Jan. 25, 2021 The Health Ministry plans to add over 2,000 hospital beds in the Jerusalem region over the next few decades, but very few are planned for East Jerusalem, where a third of the region's residents live. The new hospital beds are part of a long-term initiative dubbed the National Master Plan 49, which is for all future health institutions throughout the country. The Health Ministry and the Planning Administration recently finished preparing an initial version of the plan, in which it sets goals for the health system for the next few decades and identifies land where it is pos...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio They demanded freedom, dignity, democracy and social justice amid battles with police and state-hired thugs, and on February 11 President Hosni Mubarak resigned. But the coalition fragmented as it faced two much more established forces: the Muslim Brotherhood that swept to power in later elections, and the military that toppled it in 2013. Egypt now faces a different landscape. Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, who became president in 2014 after leading the overthrow of the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, has overseen a crackdown that activists call...