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Israelis go on general strike over judicial reform Jerusalem Controversy

Israelis go on general strike over judicial reform

JERUSALEM- Israel’s largest labour organisation Histadrut started Monday a general worker strikes to press the government to halt its contentious judicial overhaul plan. Histadrut’s chairman Arnon Bar-David issued a statement saying workers and employers would together halt the judicial overhaul, Israeli media reported. Following his call, departing flights from Ben…
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March 27, 2023
Israeli president urges halt to judicial overhaul after protests Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli president urges halt to judicial overhaul after protests

CAIRO: Simmering tensions between Sudan’s ruling factions reached breaking point on Saturday when trucks with mounted machine guns and tanks began rolling through the streets of Khartoum, a city of 5.2 million people, and airstrikes and artillery fire bombarded neighborhoods from all sides, starting fires and wreaking destruction. Fighting soon spread…
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March 27, 2023
Israeli defense minister breaks ranks and calls for halt to judicial overhaul Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli defense minister breaks ranks and calls for halt to judicial overhaul

Jerusalem CNN  —  Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has dramatically broken ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing it as a matter of national security to pause the government’s drive to overhaul Israel’s court system. Gallant’s Saturday night speech – when Netanyahu was out of the country on an official…
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March 26, 2023
UN commission resumes ‘kangaroo court’ hearings on Israeli-Palestinian conflict Jerusalem Controversy

UN commission resumes ‘kangaroo court’ hearings on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

(March 24, 2023 / JNS) A controversial United Nations commission that is purportedly investigating the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict is holding hearings this week in what the Israeli mission in Geneva called a “kangaroo court.” From the moment the U.N. Human Rights Council created the group—officially the Independent International Commission of…
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March 24, 2023
Avi Mayer, prominent pro-Israel activist, named editor of the Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Controversy

Avi Mayer, prominent pro-Israel activist, named editor of the Jerusalem Post

JTA — Avi Mayer, a pro-Israel activist and communications professional with a large following on social media, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. Mayer, 38, will take over for the current editor of the 90-year-old English language newspaper in mid-April, after Passover. “I look forward to…
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March 21, 2023