المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيليةA group of Israeli academics, recently established under the name Academia for Equality (AfE), has embarked on building and developing a data bank, namely Recruited Academia. In addition to news items and reports collected from Israeli and foreign media outlets, the data bank features official documents and reports released by universities. AfE mainly seeks to expose false
Late last week, Israeli Prime Benyamin Netanyahu returned from India following a several day visit. Described as a “historical visit”, this was the second time an Israeli prime minister visited India. The first was made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2003. Netanyahu’s visit marked the 25th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between both countries.
On Sunday, the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved amendments proposed by parties of the ruling coalition. The amendments provide that more Israeli laws be enforced on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
Released on 15 January 2018, a new report by Yaacov Lozowick, Director of the Israel State Archives, has caused considerable controversy among relevant circles over the archive disclosure policy at the Israel State Archives in particular, and official government archives in general. Lozowick states that many challenges obstruct the proper functioning of the State Archives. Obstacles are associated with the approaches/policies of disclosing and allowing public access to the archives.
Over the past few days, controversy has stirred up by a prominent settler rabbi, who called on soldiers to refuse military service if they are forced to serve in mixed military units, which comprise both men and women. There were people who immediately supported that rabbi. However, he aroused the full ire of other settler rabbis as well as angry reactions by politicians. A prominent researcher in army affairs warned against the ongoing religionisation of the Israeli army since the beginning of the 2000s. The researcher stressed that this process, which involves religious and political extremism, reflects on the soldiers’ performance against Palestinians in the field.
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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)
