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Jerusalem, November 18 – Lawmakers from the dovish Meretz party reacted to this morning’s massacre of Jewish worshipers in Jerusalem by urging the government to promote public safety by banning Jewish prayer everywhere, as it evidently constitutes a dangerous provocation ...

Jerusalem, November 12 – A bill originating with the Knesset Humor Committee to take the electorate’s wishes into consideration while legislating passed its initial vote Tuesday to raucous laughter. The Make Obligatory the Consideration by Knesset Electees of Represented Yearnings ...

Tel Aviv, November 5 – Leading proponents of Israeli democracy are beginning to have second thoughts about the inclusion of democracy in their matrix of core ideological values, a new paper from a left-wing think-tank argued this week. In an ...

Jerusalem, October 27 – The Knesset Women’s Issues Committee took up the challenge of sexual harassment today, approving a measure that would penalize male parliamentarians for neglecting to comment on a woman’s appearance while the body is in session, or ...

Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat called a press conference today to announce that the Palestinian unity government had raised $5.4 Billion worth of Berlin Milkies. “The resale profit from Milkies sold here in the Zionist Entity should enable every PA ...

Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel, October 14 – The United Nations Secretary General today visited southern Israeli communities battered this summer by Hamas rocket and mortar fire, and climbed into one of the tunnels used by the terrorist organization to infiltrate ...

Tel Aviv, October 7 – Opposition leaders are warning that given the advanced age of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, there may be precious little time remaining for Israel to make self-destructive concessions to him before he dies or steps down. ...

Woodmere, NY, October 1 – The Jewish communities of Long Island’s Five Towns area are in an uproar over a local synagogue’s initiative to link individual member families with specific inmates in Israel’s prison system incarcerated for engaging in terrorist ...

Jerusalem, September 23 – An audit by the State Comptroller has revealed that the Ministry of the Interior has apparently been misunderstanding its mission, and has restricted itself to managing home and office decor when its actual mandate involves  local government, citizenship and residency, ...

Jerusalem, September 17 – Amid tensions in the governing coalition over the fate of a law meant to eliminate the Value Added Tax on certain purchases of a home, the government and Knesset lawmakers showed no such hesitation in instituting ...