The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies
Relevant Israeli authorities are preparing to announce 2018 as a year of drought, with consequent water rationing that essentially targets farmers. Water rationing has already been in place over the past few weeks. Israeli officials stated that poor rainfall and water rationing could raise the prices of rain-fed fruits and vegetables.
On Tuesday, 9 January 2018, in a night-long marathon session, the Knesset approved a law, which authorises the Minister of Interior to either endorse or reject municipal regulations related to opening convenience stores on Saturdays. Although the government claims that it does not change the status quo at all, the law overrides powers of local municipalities.
“A total of 14 laws and bills target Jerusalem, both geographically and demographically. Although they seem as if they were “criminal”, a set of punitive laws and bills also implicitly target Jerusalemites, who are not subject to military regulations.”
Legal advisor to the Israeli government, Avihai Mandelblit, submitted a legal response, last week, to the petitions being discussed in the Supreme Court against the "Settlement Law", which calls for regulating the legal status of the settlement outposts in the West Bank and the voiding of their legitimacy by means of abolishing.
Ramifications corresponding to the ambivalent resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, are still within the frame of raising multiple speculations pertaining to what the next few days and weeks might bring. This comes especially in light of the severe crisis created by this resignation within a whole influx of neighbouring countries in the entire region, as well as of whether
Relations between Israel and the Kurds, particularly in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, have resurfaced following the referendum for independence of this region. According to results of the referendum, held on 25 September 2017, 92 percent of the population in the Kurdistan region north of Iraq voted for independence and separation from the Iraqi state.
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The Repercussions of the War against Gaza on Israel's Relations with Russia and Turkey: Will There Be Fundamental Changes?
On the collapse of the concept of "moving away from America and the West and replacing them with new friends": "Netanyahu was looking for comfortable political partners, even at the cost of harming Israel's national security."
Israeli Affairs (Issue no. 91)
