This move is expected to dramatically reduce the cost of living in Israel and create a structural change in the Israeli market.
85 voted in favor, five less than the required amount.
Ministers from Netanyahu's Likud Party, as well as from the Religious Zionist Party (RZP) and Otzma Yehudit, criticized the language, as it did not rule out a Palestinian state in general.
One woman held up pictures of three family members who were among the 253 people seized in the cross-border Hamas rampage of Oct. 7 that triggered the worst fighting in decades.
A Knesset forum event saw guest speakers from Israel and overseas discuss the situation in Gaza amid Israel’s war against Hamas – including anti-Iranian regime activist Vahid Behashti.
Being left-wing involves, inter alia, seeking peace and believing in humanism, the welfare state, and a mixed economy. There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear.
The former Jerusalem mayor has met with Likud activists and told them that he would not support Netanyahu again and that the party needed to see a change.
A new Knesset legislation passed prevents employees from firing those unable to work because they are evacuees or families of hostages.
Conditions at the Institute of Forensic Medicine are pathetic and inadequate to cope with ordinary work, not to mention the current disaster.
Imagine a person – for convenience let us call him Issy, short for Israel – who faces a challenging medical problem.