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Israel President Says Judicial Compromise ‘Closer’ as Protests Escalate

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday said a compromise in the government's judicial overhaul plan could be imminent even as protests against the reform continued to spread. Local media circulated a letter by 10 former air force chiefs to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of the "grave and tangible" threat…

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Police Struggle With Anti-Judicial Reform Demonstrators As They Attempted To Block Roads

Israelis demonstrating in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the government’s judicial reform plan defied police orders.

Zenger

US Demands Clarifications from Israel over Aqaba Statements

Washington has demanded clarifications from the Israeli government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some of his ministers reneged on the agreements reached at last month’s Aqaba meeting. Official broadcaster Kan said on Saturday that the US administration requested clarifications after Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister…

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Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right

Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians

The Guardian - UK

Israeli Attorney General Authorizes A Law Enforcement Investigation Against A Knesset Member.

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has given the green light for a police investigation of Zvika Fogel

Zenger

Netanyahu denounces protesters after salon siege of his wife

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say protesters are “anarchists” after they gathered outside a Tel Aviv salon where his wife was getting her hair done

The Independent UK

What's driving the players behind Israel's legal overhaul?

Proponents of the Israeli government's planned legal overhaul often argue that curtailing the power of judges and courts is good for the country

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Israeli police use stun grenades, water cannon in crackdown on protests against judicial reform

Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel’s hard-line national security minister urged a tough response to what he said were…

France 24

Palestine’s Huwara should be wiped out: Top Israeli minister

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for the destruction of Huwara that was the target of deadly settler rampage.

Al Jazeera

Israel Minister Says Palestinian Planned to Kill Him

Israel’s controversial far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Tuesday police had arrested a Palestinian who planned to assassinate him. A statement from his office said the man, who was not identified, was arrested several weeks ago. “The Arab suspect, a Jerusalem resident, who was planning to assassinate National…

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Israel releases settlers arrested after anti-Palestinian attacks

Only eight Jewish settlers were arrested after Sunday’s attack on villages near Nablus that left one Palestinian dead.

Al Jazeera

Analysis-Netanyahu's balancing act got harder after post-summit violence

A U.S.-brokered summit had barely ended with pledges to calm violence and slow Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank when Palestinian homes were set ablaze by Jewish settlers in retaliation for a deadly Palestinian gun ambush.

Reuters

Palestinian teen killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank

Palestinians say Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an army raid in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank

The Independent UK

Israel’s Ben-Gvir Says Wants More Settlements after US, European Concern

Israel's hardline Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Tuesday he wanted to see more Jewish settlements after European and US foreign ministers said they were troubled by a recent decision by Israel to authorize settler outposts. "The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel," he said in a…

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U.S., Canada, European powers oppose Israeli settlement authorization

Foreign ministers of four European countries and Canada joined Washington on Tuesday in opposing a decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to authorize nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Government Legalizes 9 Outposts

The Israeli security cabinet has approved nine outposts in the West Bank as settlements and planned to build 4,500 settlement units. The cabinet's decision was taken in a five-hour session attended by ministers.

Al Jazeera

Palestinians decry ‘lethal assault’ as Israel promises crackdown

Arab League meeting denouncing Israeli actions comes amid one of the deadliest periods of violence.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Home Demolitions as Violence Rises

Ratib Matar’s family was growing. They needed more space. Before his granddaughters, now 4 and 5, were born, he built three apartments on an eastern slope overlooking Jerusalem’s ancient landscape. The 50-year-old construction contractor moved in with his brother, son, divorced daughter and their young kids — 11 people in…

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The Independent UK

Israel steps up Jerusalem home demolitions as violence rises

Israel's drive to demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem is picking up pace

Al Jazeera

Tensions simmer among Palestinian prisoners as Israel cracks down

Prisoner group says deal has been reached after tough measures were imposed amid escalation of violence.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Palestinians in Israel have new cause to fear for their future

In recent days, there has been an alarming escalation of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, adding victims to what had been a deadly year in 2022. Last Thursday, the Israel Defense Force launched a raid against militants in the Jenin refugee camp, killing nine Palestinians. The next day,…

Reuters

Israel jail crackdown sets up showdown with Palestinian prisoners

Soon after sirens sounded in Israel as rockets were fired from Gaza on Wednesday, hardline Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he would press on with a crackdown on Palestinian prisoners that could further inflame tensions despite U.S. calls for calm.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ben-Gvir Orders Closure of Prisoner-run Bakeries

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has ordered the closure of bakeries inside the Rimon and Ketziot jails, which provide fresh bread to the inmates. Israeli media said that Ben-Gvir took this step because the bakeries are run by Palestinian inmates. Speaking to Israel Hayom, Ben-Gvir said he "went crazy"…

The Independent UK

Antony Blinken warns of ‘shrinking horizon of hope’ for Palestinians during visit to West Bank

‘Restoring calm is our immediate task,’ says US secretary of state

France 24

Blinken expresses 'sorrow' over deaths of innocent Palestinians on Ramallah trip

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank on Tuesday with renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence.

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