The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies
Emanuel Gross, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa and Netanya Academic College, stressed that the “attempts made by the Minister of Justice (Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party) to pull out the carpet from under the High Court of Justice pose a grave danger to democracy in Israel”. In a statement he made to Ynetnews on 16 September 2017, Gross said that “any enlightened democratic system gives its high court the power to check its laws and examine how constitutional they are.
The Regional Unit for Combating Corruption and Organised Crime (Lahav 433) of the Israeli Police has recently extended investigations into corruption cases. The primary suspect in two of three cases is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In the third case, corruption suspicions surround confidantes of Netanyahu.
The three cases are as follows:
Election of Avi Gabai as a leader of the Israeli Labour Party on Monday, 10 July 2017, was not as big a surprise as it had been expected. However, the political centre-left wing seemed to be happy that Gabai had won.
On 6-8 June 2017, the Israel Defence (ISDEF) was organised in Tel Aviv. The exhibition featured weapons, security gear, IT equipment which are custom designed for cyber war and social media espionage. Exhibits are made by public and private Israeli companies as well as foreign manufacturers.
Initiator: Avi Dichter (Likud) and 13 MKs from coalition parties
Bill no.: 1989/20/F
On Wednesday, 10 May 2017, the Knesset endorsed in a preliminary ready the so-called Bill on “Israel the National State of the Jewish People” with a majority vote of 48 MKs from all coalition parties as well as 41 MKs from all opposition parties. However, the government representative minister announced that, in agreement with the bill initiator, the
Full consent can be given to the comment made by the New Israel Fund (NIF) on the incident, which involved the detention and interrogation of NIF Deputy Director Jennifer Gorovitz at the Ben-Gurion International Airport. NIF stated that the “Gorovitz incident” falls in the context of the nondemocratic Settlement Law. It was associated
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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)
