“You just wait and see. 338th time’s the charm.” Jerusalem, October 17 – Israeli parliamentary work resumed Sunday following a holiday recess, with the legislative minority predicting that the next corruption charge against the prime minister will bring him down, ...
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Read More »Rule Of Law Suddenly Unimportant At Khan Al-Amar
Of course no one would suggest political considerations really lie at the heart of the rule-of-law arguments. Jerusalem, September 12 – Legal scholars and political commentators have noticed in recent weeks that despite its supremacy in every other arena, the ...
Read More »Party With Undemocratic Leadership Really Concerned Nation-State Law Harms Democracy
“We fear for Israeli democracy,” stated Lapid, who personally selected the eleven MKs now serving in the Knesset for Yesh Atid. Tel Aviv, August 1 – A kingmaking faction in the Knesset whose parliamentary representation gets selected by it’s chairman’s fiat warned ...
Read More »Livni To Lead Opposition For Rest Of Career
The sixty-year-old can maintain her commitment to not quite making it to the top, and to finding just the right moment to jump ship. Jerusalem, July 26 – Congratulations to a veteran lawmaker poured in today following the announcement that ...
Read More »Haaretz Editor Unsure If Proposal To Change Anthem To Horst-Wessel-Lied Sardonic Or Sincere
“The only way to prevent Bibi and company from imposing fascism is to overthrow his junta and impose the right – which is to say left – kind of fascism.” Tel Aviv, July 18 – An editorial staff member at ...
Read More »MKs In Uproar After Discovering Knesset Going Paperless Includes Toilet Paper
“It’s been a real… well, I don’t have to say it,” mumbled a frustrated MK Ahmad Tibi. Jerusalem, July 12 – Cries of protest filled the plenum of Israel’s parliament today following revelations that a new policy to eliminate the ...
Read More »MK Zahalka Writhes On Ground As Bill Rejected, Angling For Red Card
Referees issued no such sanction, according to witnesses. Jerusalem, July 5 – A legislator from the Joint List whose grandstanding piece of legislation called for international supervision of an Israeli nuclear facility has been faking an injury in the parliamentary ...
Read More »Armenian Genocide Recognition Postponed Again; ‘Too Busy Not Valuing Lives Of Israelis Near Gaza’
“We’re really busy getting this abdication of our responsibility just right.” Jerusalem, June 28 – The Knesset’s Legislative Committee took a bill off the table this week for the fourth time, a law that would declare Israel recognizes the genocide of Armenian ...
Read More »High Court To Hear Case On Unfair Bedtime
Ten-year-old Tal Silber’s attorneys petitioned the High Court to rule on the legality of a 9 PM lights-out policy in the Silber household. Jerusalem, June 20 – Continued absence of a law defining the role of Israel’s most senior judicial ...
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