Israel Barring Entry to its Own Citizens in COVID Clampdown Press Release
February 28, 2021 |
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The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) submitted an opinion to Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri, asserting that setting sweeping restrictions on Israeli citizens’ ability to return to the country from overseas is extremely problematic from a constitutional perspective and is without parallel in the democratic world. The opinion also stated that restrictions on entry by citizens and permanent residents at this time could infringe on the right to vote in the upcoming elections as Israelis must be present in the country in order to cast their ballot.
Israel s entry ban on citizens unparalleled in democratic world, watchdog says
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Feb. 24, 2021
Benny Gantz, the leader of the Kahol Lavan party, has been warning over the past several days of an “April plot.” According to his “nightmare scenario,” if his party fails to secure the minimum 3.25 percent of the vote in the March 23 Knesset election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might dismiss him and the other Kahol Lavan cabinet members from the transitional government.
The step, Gantz said, would enable Netanyahu to take advantage of the interim period until a new government is formed to “eliminate his trial, arrange immunity, dismiss the attorney general [and] dismiss the state prosecutor. Everything we are fighting for, everything is going to fade away,” said Gantz, who is defense minister and alternate prime minister, in remarks to Channel 12 on Monday.