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In Brief: Israel approves plans for 1,303 Palestinian West Bank homes

Posted 3 November, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Construction in Jenin > Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has advanced plans for 1,303 new homes for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank on Monday. This was the first authorisation of its kind under the new coalition government came to power in June, and the first since the Biden administration was…

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In Brief: Israeli left criticises approval of West Bank settlements

Posted 3 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli settlements in the West Bank > TrickyH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The approval of some 3,000 housing units for Israeli settlers in the West Bank has drawn criticism from left-wing voices in the Israeli government, as well as the Biden administration. 1,804 housing units received final approval for construction last week, while a…

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Analysis: Israel commits to lead climate revolution as COP26 convenes

Posted 3 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
COP26 > Casa Rosada, CC BY 2.5 AR, via Wikimedia Commons. As the world gathers in Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference, Israel has featured prominently so far - for both positive and unexpected reasons. A recap COP26 is a UN conference bringing together more than 200 world leaders to move forward global efforts against climate change. …

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In Brief: Israeli govt ends residency freeze for 4,000 Palestinians

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Benny Gantz. Image Credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel announced this week that it had officially legalised the status of 4,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, ending a decade-long freeze in which almost no requests were authorised under Benjamin Netanyahu. The move was part of the government’s ongoing effort, led by…

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In Brief: Israeli officials express concern over rise in settler crimes

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Israeli police in Lod. Credit: Israel Police, CC BY-SA 3.0. Israeli defence officials have expressed concern over a dramatic rise in hate crimes and violence by Jewish nationalists in the past two years. Most of the perpetrators appear to be West Bank settlers. Ynet news found that hate crimes increased significantly in 2020 compared with 2019, with a…

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In Brief: Israeli ministers meet with PA to “keep two-state solution alive”

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Nitzan Horowitz > Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Two Israeli ministers from the left-wing Meretz party, Nitzan Horowitz and Isawi Frej, met with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night. Health minister Horowitz said his party was working to “keep the two-state solution alive” within Israel’s new coalition government, which is led by right-wing…

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LFI director: The Post-Netanyahu Israeli Left

Posted 23 September, 2021 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Israel's thirty-sixth government. Image Credit: Government Press Office, public domain. Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for ZF Connect. Click here to read the original. If Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet was famously “a team of rivals”, it is difficult to know how to describe that of Naftali Bennett. While Israel’s highly proportional electoral…

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In Brief: Israel and Sweden renew ties after seven-year freeze

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven. Image Credit: Indian Prime Minister's Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The foreign ministers of Israel and Sweden held their first phone call in seven years on Monday, in a move one Israeli diplomat called a “relaunching of relations” after a lengthy period of tension. Yair Lapid spoke with his Swedish counterpart…

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In Brief: Palestinian polling shows support for confidence-building

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image Credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Some 56 percent of Palestinians approve of recent “confidence-building measures” by the Israeli government, intended to improve everyday life for Palestinians. Polling by Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Survey and Policy Research, found that 56 percent of Palestinians viewed the moves…

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