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Carrie Keller-Lynn

Carrie Keller-Lynn

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Coalition claims imminent understandings in judicial talks; opposition disagrees

As pressure mounts for the parties to judicial reform talks at the President’s Residence to report progress after two months of stalemate, two...

01.06.2023 20

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Likud said to pull draft bill proposing to neuter Israel Bar Association

A Likud bill to strip the Israel Bar Association of its licensing power, two weeks ahead of the professional guild’s most politically relevant...

31.05.2023 10

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Levin says ‘post-Zionist agendas’ infiltrated court, is told to ‘get hospitalized’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Wednesday accused the opposition of pursuing a subversive agenda and blamed it for the impasse in judicial reform...

31.05.2023 30

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Calling for stronger political center, Lapid and Gantz warn against fringe lawmakers

Opposition leaders on Wednesday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition and its plan to block judicial checks on political...

31.05.2023 20

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Facing pressure, opposition parties stress need for ‘progress’ in judicial talks

Judicial reform compromise talks resumed Tuesday at the President’s Residence, with opposition parties closing the day’s negotiations with...

30.05.2023 10

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PM tells Likud overhaul ‘not dead’; Gantz says any deal must preclude further bills

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Likud party on Monday that his government’s frozen plans for a radical shakeup of the judiciary are...

29.05.2023 10

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Opposition infighting heats up over seat on judge selection panel

The Knesset’s largest opposition parties were showing cracks in their alliance Monday, each accusing the other of tearing the opposition apart over...

29.05.2023 10

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Bill to ban waving Palestinian flags on campuses temporarily shelved by ministers

A government panel on Sunday shelved for at least a month a right-wing bill that would bar waving Palestinian flags on Israeli campuses, amid...

28.05.2023 10

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Cabinet approves Maoz’s return to role overseeing school programing, Jewish identity

Far-right MK Avi Maoz has been granted the authority to exercise oversight over educational vendors in public schools, following a Sunday cabinet...

28.05.2023 10

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PM vows to pursue ‘broad consensus’ on judiciary after overhaul revival spurs outcry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reaffirmed his intention to continue talks on the judicial overhaul at the President’s Residence,...

24.05.2023 30

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Protest leader says ‘grassroots’ initiative raised NIS 50m to fight judicial overhaul

Grassroots organizers opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s plans have raised some NIS 50 million from donors since the...

24.05.2023 30

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Knesset approves 2023-2024 budget in all-night vote, patching coalition rift

Knesset lawmakers okayed state budgets for 2023 and 2024 in the wee hours of Wednesday, ending months of coalition bickering over funding priorities...

24.05.2023 30

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As budget votes begin, Netanyahu boasts government ‘will last all four of its years’

Looking to project political stability, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday thanked coalition partners for coming together to pass the...

23.05.2023 20

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Netanyahu gives UTJ nod to pay NIS 250m to yeshiva students, ending budget boycott

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich promised to boost funding for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students and their...

22.05.2023 40

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Rallying against looming budget, anti-overhaul protesters may be overreaching

Twenty weeks into their sustained campaign against the government’s plan to siphon off judicial power, leaders for the national protest movement...

21.05.2023 20

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At Jerusalem Flag March, chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and assaults on Palestinians

Thousands of Israelis took part in the Jerusalem Flag March on Thursday, with the highly controversial annual event again featuring racist chants and...

18.05.2023 50

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Haredi faction threatens to oppose state budget if NIS 600 million demand not met

Part of Haredi party United Torah Judaism (UTJ) threatened Wednesday night to withhold its support for the crucial state budget, or even actively...

18.05.2023 20

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In latest coalition upheaval, Otzma Yehudit boycotts Knesset votes over budget dispute

In its latest act of coalition destabilization, the far-right Otzma Yehudit party walked out of Knesset floor votes Wednesday in a bid to pressure...

17.05.2023 20

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Herzog urges progress at overhaul talks as sources indicate little movement

Negotiators working to find a cross-partisan consensus on reform to Israel’s judiciary received a surprise guest on Tuesday: President Isaac Herzog,...

16.05.2023 20

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Lapid: Use NIS 13.7b in discretionary budget funds to lower VAT, offer job training

Reiterating his disapproval of the government’s proposed two-year, trillion-shekel state budget, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday presented...

16.05.2023 20

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Opposition MKs call municipal tax plan ‘theft,’ as Smotrich slams striking mayors

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich launched a verbal attack on Monday against the local authorities that are currently striking in protest of his plan...

15.05.2023 10

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Netanyahu vows contentious Jerusalem Flag March will again go through Muslim Quarter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday that a controversial nationalist parade will take place in Jerusalem on Thursday, including its...

15.05.2023 20

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Ben Gvir says party opposes budget over lack of funds ‘to Judaize Negev and Galilee’

Ministers from the far-right Otzma Yehudit slammed the proposed state budget on Sunday over dissatisfaction with the amount of discretionary funding...

14.05.2023 40

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Mayors call sweeping strike Monday to protest being forced to share municipal taxes

Local governments across Israel are expected to go on strike starting Monday in protest against the coalition’s plan to transfer municipal tax...

14.05.2023 40

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When lightning strikes twice: Repeat rocket hits break calm on an Ashkelon street

Miryam Keren was in her kitchen when the warning siren sounded on Wednesday, making it to her safe room seconds before a rocket fell in her back...

11.05.2023 50

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Knesset advances NIS 10,000 fines for waving terror organization flags

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to curb attorney general oversight over punishments for publicly supporting terror organizations and waving...

11.05.2023 70

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Ben Gvir solves his own coalition crisis, leveraging Gaza op to pump up his base

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is counting this week’s operation against Gaza terror groups as a political win, but his partners are...

11.05.2023 60

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Netanyahu says IDF ‘at height of battle,’ as resumed fighting sinks ceasefire bid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was not diminishing its offensive against Gaza-based terrorists Wednesday, pushing back against claims...

10.05.2023 50

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Coalition officials turn up heat on Ben Gvir, say he is to blame if government falls

Coalition figures intensified their attacks on far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir Monday who has been boycotting Knesset and...

08.05.2023 90

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Knesset reopens Sunday in shadow of slow-rolled judicial overhaul

The Knesset will reopen for its summer session on Sunday, ending a four-week recess that did little to calm national tensions surrounding the...

30.04.2023 80

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Mass right-wing protest highlights deepening divide between Netanyahu and Levin

Thursday night’s 200,000-person show of force in support of the government’s plan to weaken judicial checks on political power underscored the...

27.04.2023 80

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15,000 attend controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day event

Despite an event drawing nearly 15,000 participants, a corner of Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua Park was uncharacteristically quiet on Monday night as...

25.04.2023 100

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Protest leaders take the stage at JFNA, say overhaul is ‘tearing up social contract’

Given an English-language platform in front of American Jewish community officials, protest leaders said Monday they believed that the fundamental...

24.04.2023 100

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Protesters outside JFNA confab try to engage visiting US Jews on judicial overhaul

About 2,000 North American Jews made their way to northern Tel Aviv on Sunday evening for the opening of the Jewish Federations of North America’s...

23.04.2023 80

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Activists gear up for chance to bring 3,000 visiting US Jews into anti-overhaul fray

The arrival of over 3,000 North American Jewish community leaders to Israel for a large conference has afforded groups protesting the government’s...

21.04.2023 80

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‘Worried for our families’ futures’: Grandmothers in Tel Aviv protest judicial shakeup

A dozen grandmothers boarded a bus Thursday to make their way from an assisted living facility in Israel’s center to Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square....

21.04.2023 100

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In Israel, son of last shah says Iranians ‘absolutely’ ready for Israel ties

Reza Pahlavi, prominent Iranian opposition leader and son of Iran’s deposed monarch, expressed hope that Israel and Iran will return to being...

19.04.2023 80

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Thousands rally in support of judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, block major highway

Waving Israeli and Likud flags, some 20,000 protesters marched in support of the government’s judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv on Thursday, the...

30.03.2023 70

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Facing strong opposition, coalition puts off bill to let PM keep gifted money

The coalition on Wednesday postponed work on a bill that would allow public servants to keep money gifted to them for the purpose of covering medical...

29.03.2023 100

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Supreme Court critic Amsalem installed as second minister in Justice Ministry

Vocal Supreme Court critic and Likud MK David Amsalem was appointed a second minister within the Justice Ministry, with the Knesset ratifying his...

28.03.2023 90

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In first, tens of thousands rally to back overhaul; ministers promise it will pass

Tens of thousands of government supporters demonstrated in Jerusalem on Monday in favor of its judicial overhaul and against its planned halt, shortly...

27.03.2023 70

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Deputy AG blasts ‘fundamental flaws’ in bill to return Deri to cabinet

Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon on Sunday slammed a bill aimed at reinstating Shas chief Aryeh Deri in his ministerial post after the High Court...

26.03.2023 70

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Hametz law set to pass, in time for hospitals to ban non-kosher food on Passover

The Knesset is set to pass a law that will enable hospitals to set policy banning or restricting the entry of leavened food, or hametz, ahead of next...

26.03.2023 80

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Knesset to see decisive week for Supreme Court, as cracks appear in coalition

With only days until the Knesset breaks for its April recess, the coalition is sprinting to close core elements of its judicial overhaul amid...

26.03.2023 100

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PM: I’ll intervene to make overhaul balanced — but judge selection bill will pass

Addressing his government’s judicial shakeup for the first time since he was given legal cover to do so Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

24.03.2023 100

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Thousands march through Haredi enclave Bnei Brak as day of protests ends

Demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul continued on Thursday night, with thousands attending a controversial march through the...

24.03.2023 100

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New state budget will increase deficit, may aggravate inflation woes

The Finance Ministry provided the first glimpse of the state’s 2023-2024 budget on Thursday, presenting the nearly trillion shekel two-year proposal...

23.03.2023 80

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Knesset panel to resume vote on reservations to judicial appointments bill on Sunday

The Knesset committee pushing a contentious bill that will give the government control of most judicial appointments as part of its efforts to...

23.03.2023 80

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MKs confront Ben Gvir with cries of ‘shame’ as bill to monitor abusers voted down

Coalition lawmakers narrowly voted down a bill Wednesday that would have mandated an electronic monitoring system to track domestic abusers, drawing...

22.03.2023 80

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Knesset set to shield PM against forced removal from office

Despite concerns raised by the Attorney General’s Office, the Knesset was expected to pass Wednesday or Thursday a law that would protect Prime...

22.03.2023 90

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