Is this where we’re all headed? Will the “Israeli model” soon be the reality across the West amid the coronavirus pandemic? After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last Saturday that authorities will tap the country’s ‘counter-terror’ technology and systems to combat the “invisible enemy” of Covid-19, Israeli media is now reporting the government is actually considering the... 

On Friday, Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker of the Knesset in Israel, urged the military to “burn” Gaza and block all fuel and water supplies to the Palestinian enclave until hostages held by Hamas are released. This statement adds to a series of provocative remarks by Israeli politicians amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas. Vaturi, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud... 

Two influential members of Israel’s Knesset have introduced a bill to outlaw teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Israel and sentence violators to prison. Israel already bans Christians from proselytizing minors but this new bill will go even further and “ban any and all efforts to tell people about Jesus.” Is it possible that the Israeli government this year could pass legislation making... 

This Sunday — January 3 — four adult females and one girl from the Bnei Menashe community of northeastern India will make Aliyah to Israel — the result of a government decision that was promoted by the Minister of Aliyah and Integration, MK Pnina Tamano-Shata in cooperation with the Shavei Israel organization: The arrival of sisters Rut (28), Dina (21), and Avigail Lhanghal (13) from Manipur,... 

Benjamin Netanyahu has subjected himself to a political thrashing after the Israeli prime minister issued a gaffe-riddled speech during an event raising awareness about violence against women. The Israeli leader spoke at a ceremony marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but his remarks have been interpreted as less-than-sympathetic towards females. The trouble... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scored a huge election victory in his country’s general election, with his Gentile-hating election partner “United Right” party’s five seats set to assure him of a majority in the Knesset. The election result—which also saw the main “left wing” Zionist Labour Party collapse—has firmly entrenched Israeli politics as a bastion of the “Jews-only”... 

Members of Israel’s Labour party went to the polls on Monday to elect the party’s Knesset slate. The latest surveys show that the Likud party, which dominated Israeli politics for its first three decades of statehood, is likely to see modest results in April’s election. In 2015, Labour, in alliance with the small Hatnua faction, won 24 seats. This year, the Likud party has won 30. Some members... 

On July 19, the Knesset voted to change the nation’s Basic Law. Israel was declared to be, now and forever, the nation-state and national home of the Jewish people. Hebrew is to be the state language. Angry reactions, not only among Israeli Arabs and Jews, came swift. Allan Brownfeld of the American Council for Judaism calls the law a “retreat from democracy” as it restricts the right of self-determination,... 

Tens of thousands are protesting in Tel Aviv against ‘nation-state’ law that prioritized Jewish values in Israel and has been criticized as discriminating sparking local and international condemnation. Protesters have been holding signs “If we are brothers we must be equals” and “Our force is in our unity – the nation-state law differentiates between us,” according to... 

The Israeli government is set to put forward its long-awaited “nation state” bill which legalizes race segregation between Jews and non-Jews, and which promotes “Jewish settlement” [in Palestinian territories] as a “national value.” According to reports in the Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Jewish state bill, saying that the Jews have “majority rights.” “Most... 

A lawmaker from the ruling Likud party said Wednesday that the “Jewish race” is the smartest in the world and possessing of the “highest human capital,” which is why, he said, the Israeli public did not buy into the allegations of wrongdoing by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to a report in the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel, Knesset Member Miki Zohar made the comments during... 

The Israeli parliament’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation this week approved the long-delayed “Nation State Bill” for its first reading, which, when passed, will further restrict immigration to Jews only, and enshrine Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people.” The bill will now go to the Knesset plenum for a preliminary vote, following which it will be combined with a Justice... 

The parliament of Israel has given a preliminary reading to the draft law on the Jewish character of the State of Israel. As many as 48 MPs voted for the bill, 41 voted against it. The document says that the State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, where they realise their desire for self-determination in accordance with cultural and historical heritage. The right to national self-determination... 

The Israeli government has taken yet another step forward in its program to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank of Palestinians with a new law called the “Regulation Bill” which has passed its first reading by the Knesset. The law legalizes houses built by settlers on private Palestinian land, and forces the robbed Palestinians to accept whatever payment is offered to them, regardless of... 

In the last few days violent racial riots broke out in Tel Aviv, something that has not been mentioned by the Western media. African migrants, mostly Sudanese, marched in the capital of Israel protesting against the government of Netanyahu. The reason for the protest was the demand for refugees to be given asylum in Israel and for the Israelis to stop treating them as second-class human beings. Israeli...