The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies
In the evening of 22 February 2018, the Judicial Selection Committee in Israel, chaired by Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked of the far right wing Jewish Home party, approved the appointment of Alex Stein and Ofer Groskopf as judges at the Israeli High Court.
The Adva Center Information on Equality and Social Justice in Israel has recently published a report on socio-economic conditions in Israel in 2017. According to the report, college education does not always promise escape from, or living in, poverty, including households headed by persons with academic degrees.
Relevant Israeli authorities are preparing to announce 2018 as a year of drought, with consequent water rationing that essentially targets farmers. Water rationing has already been in place over the past few weeks. Israeli officials stated that poor rainfall and water rationing could raise the prices of rain-fed fruits and vegetables.
On Tuesday, 9 January 2018, in a night-long marathon session, the Knesset approved a law, which authorises the Minister of Interior to either endorse or reject municipal regulations related to opening convenience stores on Saturdays. Although the government claims that it does not change the status quo at all, the law overrides powers of local municipalities.
“A total of 14 laws and bills target Jerusalem, both geographically and demographically. Although they seem as if they were “criminal”, a set of punitive laws and bills also implicitly target Jerusalemites, who are not subject to military regulations.”
Legal advisor to the Israeli government, Avihai Mandelblit, submitted a legal response, last week, to the petitions being discussed in the Supreme Court against the "Settlement Law", which calls for regulating the legal status of the settlement outposts in the West Bank and the voiding of their legitimacy by means of abolishing.
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On the collapse of the concept of "moving away from America and the West and replacing them with new friends": "Netanyahu was looking for comfortable political partners, even at the cost of harming Israel's national security."
