No confession, no retirement: Why is Israel's president even considering Netanyahu's pardon request?

by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Over the past week, the defendant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made it clear on several occasions that he is not prepared to admit to anything in exchange for a pardon. He won’t express remorse, won’t leave political life, won’t back...

Symbols are not ornaments: Ben-Gvir's lapel pin is a hangman's noose around solidarity

by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] News Life and CultureColumnists and OpinionHaaretz Hebrew and TheMarkerPartnershipsHaaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.©...

Israel's Education Ministry to ban smartphone use in elementary schools

by mgall74 | Dec 11, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Israeli Education Ministry officials said that the policy aims to reduce distractions, to strengthen social ties in school, and to provide the best possible setting for learning. According to ministry data, 60 percent of the country’s youth are addicted...

Israel seeks to ban NGOs getting more than $30K in foreign funding from organizing protests

by mgall74 | Dec 10, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday deliberated a revised bill whose terms were distributed to lawmakers by the panel’s chairman, Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism), targeting nonprofits getting funding from foreign countries,...

The sheer political folly of Israel's opposition that refuses to sit with Mansour Abbas

by mgall74 | Dec 10, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] News Life and CultureColumnists and OpinionHaaretz Hebrew and TheMarkerPartnershipsHaaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.©...