المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيليةAnother incident has added to the realities of increasing religionisation of the public space in Israel. Recently, an initiative taken by a MK of Meretz has failed to establish a parliamentary bloc. The initiative aim at promoting secular culture and identity in Israel in the face of the incessant religionisation campaign within the Israeli education system.
Current conflicts in Meretz movement, their background, active players and consequent results were the subject of an extensive report written by the Israeli journalist Sarah Leibovitch – Dar, published under the title: “Leftists without Dignity”, in the last issue of “Liberal” Magazine, which is a monthly magazine that specializes in partisan and internal politics, in addition to media and cultural issues. The magazine was founded at the beginning of 2014, and the first issue was published in May of the same year.
*International pharmaceutical company fails to honour its commitments in the last three years, and lays off more than 2500 workers
*TEVA’s crisis will negatively affect industrial exports, while its influence on unemployment and Tax Revenues is marginal*
The clamour over Teva’s announcement to lay off more than 1700 workers from its plants and facilities in Israel, as part of the Israeli International Pharmaceutical Company’s plan to lay off thousands of workers worldwide, is not attributed only to the large number of workers
Around 250,000 Arab Bedouins live in Negev in towns recognized by Israel and others that are not. Towns recognized by Israel include the city of Rahat, 6 local councils and two regional councils. These towns are among the most vulnerable in the country - socially and economically, and they are all located in the lower cluster that needs most support. The State Comptroller’s Report for 2015 admitted the importance of formal education in “creating cultural infrastructure and producing and forming common and equal values to all citizens of the State”, which is an
The Israeli Ministerial Council for security and political affairs (the Cabinet) agreed in a session held on Monday morning to adopt the recommendation of the State Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, to appeal the Israeli “Supreme Court’s” ruling on holding the bodies of Palestinian martyrs for the purpose of “bargaining in negotiations”, and request further negotiations again. The Cabinet confirmed that the Israeli government is determined to keep holding the bodies, and threatened to legislate a new law that allows it to do so legally. In doing this, the
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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)
