It’s hard to see why PM’s bill should be protected from the scrupulous attentions of the tax authority and summarily reduced just because he has a loyal majority on a Knesset panel.
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A ban from public places, or gentle persuasion? The future of virus tracking in Israel
Shin Bet is poised to resume tracking for virus fight as a stopgap solution until new voluntary app developed; experts split on how to encourage users to download such a program.
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Israel – “A Time for Truth”
The citizens who have their civil liberties taken away, and their businesses destroyed must see for themselves with full transparency, the facts that were used by the government when they acted to “save us” from dying from the Corona virus. We must know the true impact of the government’s lock down on the death rate of non-Corona virus deaths.
Surveillance, Generation 2
The bill, which has been given preliminary approval by the Knesset, allows more than just the tracking of people’s phones.
It’s hard to find words to describe how badly the Netanyahu-Gantz government is out of touch and the inherent risk it poses to everything connected to individual freedoms.
Gantz is a Collaborator in Corruption
“There are two and a half hours of recordings waiting for him in the fourth election. […] Gantz is already dead.”
‘Netanyahu’s annexation bid is bad for Israel. Our ally the US should just say NO.’
‘Unilaterally extending Israeli rule into the West Bank not only damages the way we are perceived around the world, it remakes the way we present and see ourselves.’
Top Israeli Health Ministry officials ignored other experts’ Coronavirus advice, medical sources say
Criticism directed at director of public health, Siegal Sadetzki, and former director-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov, who were ministry’s public face after outbreak.
Shin Bet chief implores ministers not to renew coronavirus surveillance
“In the event there are very widespread infections and there will be no other solution, it would be the right move to send it to the [Shin Bet] service. I am asking very, very, very much not to start legislating the Shin Bet at this stage,” Argaman implored the ministers.
Full annexation or limited sovereignty: Netanyahu’s multiple scenarios have one goal
Even the ideology behind annexation is informed by political considerations – and these are tied directly to the prime minister’s corruption trial.
Israel’s ‘Coronavirus Cabinet’ faces a tough dilemma – and public disobedience
Economic pressure on one hand, fears of renewed outbreak on the other. Israelis may not take kindly to a new lockdown. Has Netanyahu lost interest in the pandemic?
‘Under-50s have little to fear, but even vaccine won’t save millions of elderly’
Leading epidemiologist Prof. Yehuda Carmeli says newest data leaves him more optimistic, but not when it comes to the over-70s; predicts some 8,000 Israeli deaths.
The Annexation’s Ambassador to Israel
Friedman supports annexation and is pushing for it, certainly more than either Israel’s prime minister or its alternate prime minister, and he’s more determined than either of them not to let the settlers’ window of opportunity close without annexing as much territory as possible with as few Palestinians as possible.
Over 550 British Jews sign petition to block appointment of new Israeli ambassador
Petition by Jewish citizens of U.K. says former settlements minister Tzipi Hotovely ‘shares responsibility for upholding Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank’
Elite Israeli troops went on a rogue op inside Syria. The result was deadly.
It started with an accident that killed three soldiers, continued with a hate crime and ended with an incursion into Syrian territory. Haaretz investigation reveals the cover-up surrounding this elite team in the Israeli army.
Meet Netanyahu’s New Media Advisor
From Trump, Breitbart and Bannon with love and conspiracy theories. Will Breitbart’s Aaron Klein use his Trumpworld experience to accelerate the deterioration of Israel’s political discourse?
Why the right sees Netanyahu’s trial as unjust, even if he’s guilty
Prosecuting the PM for trading influence for favorable media coverage isn’t an attack on the right, but on ‘the legitimate boundaries of politics,’ says attorney Gil Bringer.