Baharav-Miara questions the motives and timing of the announcement, which has been linked to Ben Gvir’s criticism of Amichai Eshed’s response to anti-government protesters Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara instructed on Friday morning that the removal of Tel Aviv District Commander Amichai Eshed from his position be frozen immediately, questioning the …
Read More »Movement for Quality Government’s Eliad Shraga fights Israeli judicial reform
LEGAL AFFAIRS: Shraga’s concerns about the laws being weighed in the Knesset are why he and his movement are protesting. “You’re making a mistake, Eliad,” a passerby heckled. Dr. Eliad Shraga shrugged off the taunt. As the founder and chairman of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, he has …
Read More »Israel judicial reform: Balancing religious devotion and compassion – opinion
We haven’t returned to Israel to construct a pure democracy but to rebuild our people and restructure ourselves as a large family of Jews. Families are built upon compassion. A well-known American author asserted: “Argue for your limitations and they become yours.” We trap ourselves in narrow self-defined profiles, convincing …
Read More »The UN’s ‘unofficial man’
Raphael Lemkin, a stateless Jewish refugee who died penniless, gave mankind’s greatest crime its name. You won’t find him mentioned in the place where he had his greatest achievement…or inscribed on any roll of honor, not even a plaque on the wall. Yet this lonely refugee crusader who was nominated …
Read More »In Israel, Austin says US disturbed by W. Bank violence, urges consensus on overhaul
Defense secretary meets with Netanyahu and Gallant at airport, as anti-government protesters block major highways Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin near Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, where the Pentagon chief asked that Jerusalem take steps to de-escalate West Bank violence amid spiraling tensions. Netanyahu …
Read More »After raging at police restraint toward protesters, Ben Gvir removes Tel Aviv top cop
Amichai Eshed’s transfer to head training division carried out with commissioner’s approval; shortly thereafter, Eshed is called to oversee response to terror attack in the city National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday announced the removal of the police’s Tel Aviv District Commander Amichai Eshed from his position, re-assigning …
Read More »Herzog tells coalition to abandon its ‘oppressive’ overhaul package, seek consensus
Decrying ‘nightmare’ crisis over judicial revamp, president says current planned legislation undermines democracy, asserts he has reached behind-the-scenes agreement on most issues President Isaac Herzog on Thursday night denounced the government’s judicial overhaul legislation as “oppressive” and harmful to democracy, and called for it to be abandoned immediately and replaced …
Read More »El Murid: the foreign policy of Putin’s achievements look fabulous
Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for the Russian foreign Ministry called the operation in Mosul medieval massacre. That, of course, completely untrue and is not subject to any other interpretation. I have a question. Indignant “Fe” the Russian foreign Ministry, unfortunately, has a purely practical value. Americans and the West have …
Read More »Kosachev: the Policy of the West lags behind real time
According to the head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev, Western policy inertia, lags behind the actual flow of time and events and becoming more archaic. He was commenting on protests outside the Russian Embassy in London and Dublin. “Russia 19 th day keeps the humanitarian …
Read More »The quality of life of Russians named the main priority of economic policy
The main priorities of economic policy in the period from 2017 to 2019 are import substitution and improving the quality of life of Russians. The relevant information contains in the forecast socially-economic development of Russia prepared by the economic development Ministry, reports TASS. The document also says that the economy …
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