JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset approved on a preliminary reading a bill that would prevent a controversial organization of Israeli army veterans from entering Israelis schools. The legislation passed Wednesday by a vote of 51-17 targets Breaking the Silence, which collects former soldiers’ testimonies, some published anonymously, that accuse the Israeli military of using excessive force…
Israel’s Knesset is getting closer to passing its “Facebook bill,” legislation that when implemented would allow the police to seek court orders for the removal of content that it deems amounting to incitement to violence. “[Facebook’s] policy of removing [content] is very, very, very strict and the bar is set very high,” a spokesman for…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli lawmaker who allegedly smuggled cell phones to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons has been suspended from parliamentary activity in the Knesset for six months. Basel Ghattas of the Balad Party, which is part of the Arab Joint List, was suspended on Monday by the Knesset Ethics Committee, which approved the suspension…
Nissan Slomiansky, a 70-year-old lawmaker with the ultra-right Jewish Home party in Israel, is facing accusations of alleged sexual misconduct against several women. Israel’s Army Radio reported that Slomiansky was the alleged perpetrator in question after activist Chagit Moriah-Gibor said on Facebook that she had been collecting testimony against a senior Israeli lawmaker in her…
Forty female Israeli parliamentary aides and advisers showed up to work in miniskirts and black leggings on December 14 in protest of new Knesset modesty rules. Their protest was sparked by two incidents in recent weeks when women were either turned away or delayed at the Knesset by guards because of what they were wearing….
Remember last summer’s burkini ban in France, where police (!) in the South of France — as in, actual police, not fashion-police-y French beach-goers — demanded a woman take off a bathing suit a new law deemed too modest? (See Jane Eisner’s analysis.) Even more frighteningly (though neither is great…), in Mosul, Iraq, reports the…
JERUSALEM — A Knesset aide was detained from entering the government building in Jerusalem after her dress was deemed too short under the parliamentary dress code. Shaked Hasson, an adviser to Zionist Union lawmaker Merav Michaeli, wore a mid-thigh length dress and leggings. She told Haaretz that five male Knesset guards examined her outfit before determining that it…
Jerusalem — Usually I’m the one sitting in the audience or the press section, covering legislative hearings or committee meetings or the endless speeches of lawmakers, hoping someone, somewhere, is listening. In all my years as a journalist, I’ve never been the one asked to speak. But there I was yesterday, in a paneled committee room…
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