PNN/ Jerusalem/ Head of the Likud party in the Knesset, Miki Zohar, submitted two draft bills, to annex the Jordan Valley and the Hebron desert in the West Bank to …
Read More »Knesset Elections: Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Blue White win 32 seats each
PNN/ Jerusalem/ Unofficial results of the 22nd Knesset elections showed that the Likud party of incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the centrist White and Blue party of opposer Benny …
Read More »Israeli police draft bill that allows forced naked searches of detainees
Ramallah/ PNN/ Israeli police are working on a bill to allow detainees to strip search detainees under the pretext of “preventing the entry of objects into police stations” even if …
Read More »Kahlon: I don’t rule out dissolving the Knesset in the winter session
JERUSALEM/PNN/ Palestinian Finance Minister Moshia Kahlon predicted that the Knesset would be dissolved at the beginning of the winter session in October and that early parliamentary elections would be held …
Read More »25 Knesset members request special session over Nation-State Law
JERUSALEM/PNN/ The Knesset General Assembly held a special session on Wednesday to debate the racist National-State Law, after 25 Knesset members submitted a request to hold the meeting during the Knesset’s summer …
Read More »2019 Israeli budget to increase defence / settlement spending
PNN / Bethlehem The 2019 Israeli state budget passed its final reading in the Knesset last week despite early proceedings being stricken by strife within the right-wing coalition. The 2019 …
Read More »Knesset votes on bill to cut funding for prisoners, martyr families
PNN/ Jerusalem/ The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved the first reading for a bill to cut tax funding to the Palestinian Authority by the amount it pays out monthly to …
Read More »Ultra-Orthodox conscription threatens to topple Israeli government
PNN / Bethlehem A dispute between leaders of the right-wing coalition government and Ultra-Orthodox members of the Knesset is threatening to topple the government and bring about an early election. …
Read More »Israeli bill to further annex the Occupied Territories passes first test
PNN / Bethlehem An Israeli legislative committee on Sunday cleared the way for a new bill that would ease the process of annexation in the occupied territories of Area C …
Read More »‘Muezzin Bill’ to restrict call to prayer, allow police to confiscate loudspeakers
PNN / Bethlehem A report released on Monday by the Jerusalem Post suggests that the forthcoming ‘Muezzin Bill’ has been altered so as to increase the powers by which police …
Read More »Israeli parties seek Knesset approval of a law which calls for imprisonment of BDS activists
PNN/ Bethlehem/ Israeli parties seeking presenting a bill for arresting Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement activists because of their call to boycott Israel. Members of the Likud party and Kulanu party are …
Read More »Unanimous International Condemnation of the Israeli Settlement bill
Madeeha Araj/ National Bureau for the Defending of Land and Resisting Settlement/ In a new attempt to legitimate the Israeli settlement activities and confiscating Palestinian land, the Israeli Knesset endorsed in the …
Read More »Revised version of Adhan bill approved in Knesset
PNN/ Bethlehem/ A revised version of the controversial ‘Muezzin Bill’, which imposes further restrictions on the Muslim call to prayer in Israel and occupied Jerusalem, was approved for vote in …
Read More »Rights groups to petition Israel’s High Court against regularization law
WAFA/ Ramallah/ Two rights organizations said Wednesday that they are set to file a petition with the Israeli High Court against Israel’s new regularization law, which allows the state to …
Read More »Knesset to pass bill legalizing Israel confiscating West Bank land for settlements
PNN/ Jerusalem/ The Israeli Knesset is set to pass a bill that will legitimized Israeli settlements and seizure of West Bank lands and private property. According to Haaretz, the revised …
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