Cabinet panel to debate three judicial overhaul bills today

by mgall74 | Jan 10, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] ‘To Strengthen Influence of MKs’ Bills set for debate would curb the attorney general’s role in oversight, allow an ombudsman to seek indictments of senior prosecutors, tilt the Knesset legal adviser selection toward politicians, and formally...

Israel is abandoning the sanctity of life in favor of violent populism

by mgall74 | Jan 8, 2026 | Israeli News

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Knesset advances bills weakening Attorney General, pushing overhaul of judiciary and civil services

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] The bill transfers the legal advisers’ subordination to the ministries’ director generals, appointed by the ministers. The MKs also passed in a preliminary vote a bill to appoint the civil service commissioner in a non-competitive process, against a...

Far-right MK calls to suspend clinical training for Palestinian medical students from West Bank, East Jerusalem

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] As Limor Son Har-Melech of Otzma Yehudit claims Palestinian students from what she calls ‘incubators of terrorism’ in the West Bank displace Israeli students in clinical training positions, the health ministry presents data showing core hospital...

When anarchy becomes catastrophe: Israel police let Haredi riots run unchecked in Jerusalem

by mgall74 | Jan 7, 2026 | Israeli News

[ad_1] It has happened again. A large demonstration by the ultra-Orthodox community against the government’s military draft exemption bill ended in tragedy on Tuesday in Jerusalem, when 14-year-old Yosef Eisenthal was killed after being run over by a bus driver...