The shooting came hours before an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been a flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Palestinians
Israeli civil society groups and others have filed petitions asking the country’s highest court to strike down the law enacted Monday and which has unleashed massive protests
Supporters of the plan say Israel’s unelected judges wield too much power. But opponents say the judges play an important oversight role, and that the plan will push Israel toward autocratic rule
Set during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the movie stars Helen Mirren as the renowned prime minister
Five Israeli newspapers ran frontpages in black, an advertisement paid for by the high-tech sector following the passage of the controversial reform
Netanyahu’s allies say the overhaul will rein in the power of unelected judges. But protesters say the overhaul amounts to regime change, pushing Israel toward autocracy
The vote came after a stormy session in which opposition lawmakers chanted ‘shame’ and then stormed out of the chamber
Netanyahu’s doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly and that Netanyahu, 73, felt fine
The protests have blocked major highways and thronged Israel’s main airport and train stations ahead of a vote on a key piece of legislation Monday
A total of 28 countries have opened consulates in the former Spanish colony and a dozen European states are looking favorably on Morocco’s autonomy proposal
The protests, now in their seventh month, have taken on a sense of urgency as Netanyahu and his allies in parliament march ahead with the program
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is pushing forward with judicial changes that have sparked widespread protest in Israel, and he has authorized the construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank
A parliamentary committee was meeting Monday to prepare a bill that would limit judicial oversight on some government decisions. It is expected to come to a final vote in parliament that would make it law early next week
The ties between both countries are caught up in the matter of Western Sahara. Rabat has postponed the opening of an Israeli embassy, while Netanyahu has delayed recognizing Moroccan authority over the former Spanish colony
Troops remained inside the Jenin refugee camp at midday Monday, pushing ahead with the largest operation in the area during more than a year of fighting
The threat comes after Netanyahu said his government would proceed with the overhaul after talks with the opposition to find a compromise faltered
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant described the ‘extensive’ operation as Israel’s first to target the Hezbollah militant group and the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force
According to the indictment, Milchan, whose production credits include such hits as ‘Pretty Woman,’ gave the PM and his wife boxes of cigars and crates of champagne over a period of several years
The drone strike, believed to be the first in the area in nearly 20 years, marked a major escalation by Israel in a more than year-long campaign against militants in the area
The Peres Center for Peace leader believes his country is experiencing ‘one of the most hopeful times in its history’ because of widespread opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reforms
Anger over the mounting insecurity is directed at Israel’s government and its ultranationalist minister in charge of police, Itamar Ben-Gvir
The government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary plunged Israel into one of its worst domestic crises ever earlier this year
The former chief of justice returns to the public arena to accuse the executive of trying to ‘control the entire judicial system to promote an ideology that is against equal rights’
European diplomats are asking union officials to ‘unequivocally’ show opposition to the Israeli government’s plans to alter the status and borders of the disputed city
The U.S. historian of Palestinian descent, who is an expert on the Middle East, believes the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have lost ‘credibility’ in the occupied territories and are no longer ‘engaged’ in the resistance movement
‘My father used to tell us: ‘I can die at any moment.’ What I could not imagine is that they would also take my mother and my sister,’ says the son of one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed by a missile
The most violent conflagration in months between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza has pitted the Israeli military against Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest militant group after Hamas