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In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem)
Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata called off a planned Thursday ceremony meant to greet hundreds of new immigrants to Israel from Ethiopia over fears the prime minister and other cabinet members would use it to score political points.
The member of the Blue and White alliance made the decision after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would appear at the ceremony, prompting Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who heads her party, to bow out.
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Protests against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, 2020: preaching to the converted
The pervasive cynicism among Israelis towards their political class is not only a sad reality of modern Israel; it has become self-defeating and destructive.
That Israelis are weary and cynical about their politicians has become so well-known it is scarcely commented on. Political misdemeanours, cronyism or shady pasts fail to elicit the seismic shocks one might hope for in an accountable democracy. In fact, these sagas, even if widely acknowledged, hardly register on the political barometer.
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Police and soldiers at a temporary checkpoint in Yerushalayim, during a nationwide lockdown. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
The Knesset plenum on Monday approved in its first reading a bill that would increase the fines for violating the public coronavirus health regulations.
Under the bill, which passed its first reading by a vote of 52-23, the fine for businesses that open against the rules will double from NIS 5,000 to NIS 10,000. The fines for educational institutions that open illegally, along with weddings, parties and other large gatherings, will be set at NIS 20,000.
The bill would also expand the means at the law enforcement authorities’ disposal for enforcing the restrictions.
A Bedouin outpost in the Judaean Desert, October 30, 2018.
A proposal by Labor Chairman and Minister of Economy Amir Peretz to promote regulation of the illegal Bedouin settlement enterprise and establish new settlements for Bedouin in the Negev was dropped on Tuesday from the government’s agenda following threats from a long list of ministers that they would vote to kill it as long as the government does not regulate Jewish settlements in peril in Judea and Samaria.
On Tuesday, MK Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina) tweeted: “Netanyahu continues his fire sale of Zionism and right-wing values and is right now approving in the government the underhanded deal of establishing 3 new Bedouin settlements in the Negev.”