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
The motive of the gunman, a National Guard member, remained unclear. Security officers killed him before he could enter the historic Ghriba synagogue building on the island of Djerba
Demonstrations target military and economic ‘burden-sharing,’ consumer price hikes and the separation of religion and state
The anniversary takes place against a backdrop of protests over Netanyahu’s judicial reform, which has exposed many underlying differences going back decades
The nation that arose on the ashes of the Holocaust faces perhaps its gravest existential threat yet — not from foreign enemies but from divisions within
Rabat was quick to condemn Israeli security forces’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but rejects local demands to sever a relationship that was brokered by the US and provides access to state-of-the-art military equipment
In a televised speech Monday, the Israeli prime minister said that Yoav Gallant is staying in his post: ‘I decided to put the differences we had behind us’
The march was a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition
A U.S. intelligence report states that Israel’s spy body Mossad has been fueling protests against the government’s judicial overhaul — claims denied by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The violence erupted after Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem earlier in the week, sparking unrest in the contested capital and outrage across the Arab world
Israel says it uses so-called administrative detention to thwart attacks and to hold dangerous militants without divulging incriminating material for security reasons
The Palestinian community may have the most to lose from the legal changes in Israel. Yet it harbors a deep sense that the system has always been rigged against them
Netanyahu said Israel makes its own decisions, rebuffing the U.S. president’s suggestion that that the premier drop a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s legal system