The Knesset gave initial approval to a bill limiting prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office on Monday night. The coalition government passed the legislation’s first reading by 66 votes to 40 votes, with the Israeli-Arab majority Joint List party joining the government to support the bill. Read more…
The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is reportedly trying to smuggle weapons into Israel to ferment unrest within the Israeli-Arab community, a police official has said. Israeli police have seen a significant increase in efforts to smuggle weapons into the country via the Lebanese and Jordanian borders since the May conflict Read more…
The authority of the Palestinian Authority was undermined amid scenes of disorder and violence in the West Bank last week. Charges that the PA was not doing enough to enforce law and order have led some Palestinian civilians to fear that violence may lead to “civil war” between gangs in Read more…
A member of Hamas launched a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others – including worshippers returning from the Western Wall. What happened Hamas lauded the attack, in which 26-year-old tour guide Eliyahu David Kay died, as “a heroic operation”. Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Earlier this month, we marked the tragic assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin – an event that robbed Israel of a great soldier and statesman. Rabin’s signing of the Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step One: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with emergency infrastructure plan for improving energy supplies, sanitation and clean water After more than a decade of war, Israeli and Egyptian restrictions, and Hamas misrule, the humanitarian situation in Read more…