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According to the newly adopted amendment, a prime minister can only be deemed unfit for reasons of physical or mental disability, and only by a 75% Knesset majority vote.
After the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed a controversial law two weeks ago that aims to limit the power of the country’s Supreme Court, images of Tel Aviv’s protests went viral.
Source: https://forward.com/news/556862/golan-heights-israel-protests-junction/
A large rally was held in front of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) building in Jerusalem, with the organizers calling for a “national day of protest.”
Alternatively, if the hundreds of thousands of right-wing Jews who demonstrated in front of the Knesset decided to do the same on the holiest site for Judaism, again, no police force in the world could stop them.
A third piece of legislation that was approved would let parliament pass laws impervious to judicial review, with a simple majority of 61 members in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the Knesset.
Based on that mantra, generations of justices killed more than 20 Knesset laws, some of them three times, because, the justices argued, they did not comply with the Basic Laws, and, as you already know, the Basic Laws are the constitution.
Earlier on Thursday night, the channel’s well-connected political reporter Michael Shemesh said that just before the vote on the budget in the Knesset, tensions in the coalition continue to rise.
From left: Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Director Albert Veksler, Knesset member Robert Ilatov, and Israel's then-President Reuven Rivlin at the first Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Jerusalem, 2017.
He served with tremendous dignity as Speaker of the Knesset, and, as Israel’s Ambassador to Poland, worked to bring both nations closer together.
He then added that the new law will be put in front of the Knesset for approval this coming Monday.
If anyone thinks everything will be over by the next Knesset session - they’re delusional."
Source: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-the-situation-is-painful-but-necessary-1001443969
In 1997, the Knesset extended to the LGBTQ community protections from defamatory language that are available to other communities.
In 2012, right smack in the middle of the 18th Knesset, the Kohelet Policy Forum was founded.
Source: https://www.972mag.com/israel-judicial-system-fight/
In his judicial revolution of the 1990s, Aharon Barak, the father of Israel’s judicial aristocracy, arrogated to the court the power to abrogate duly promulgated Knesset laws, with no legal authority.
Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/hayuts-war-no-justice-for-israeli-democracy/2023/01/23/
In Tel Aviv Shikma Bressler, one of the leaders of the protest movement, urged protesters to join the demonstration outside the Knesset on Sunday.
In the event that lawmakers requested the departure of the prime minister contrary to the government’s decision, then a majority of 90 deputies out of the 120 in the Knesset would be needed on a vote for his dismissal.
Israeli Arab politicians, including Knesset member Ahmed Tibi, had called on the government to demolish the Jewish terrorist’s house as a matter of fair treatment.
Source: https://forward.com/fast-forward/536047/israels-home-demolitions-after-terrorist-attacks-explained/
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with his Likud party in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem June 14, 2021.
I think people have genuinely been taken aback by the speed with which the government’s pushing these huge changes through the Knesset, or Parliament.
I vividly recall hosting you at the Knesset a few years back.