The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies
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.
Ramifications corresponding to the ambivalent resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, are still within the frame of raising multiple speculations pertaining to what the next few days and weeks might bring. This comes especially in light of the severe crisis created by this resignation within a whole influx of neighbouring countries in the entire region, as well as of whether
Relations between Israel and the Kurds, particularly in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, have resurfaced following the referendum for independence of this region. According to results of the referendum, held on 25 September 2017, 92 percent of the population in the Kurdistan region north of Iraq voted for independence and separation from the Iraqi state.
Emanuel Gross, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa and Netanya Academic College, stressed that the “attempts made by the Minister of Justice (Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party) to pull out the carpet from under the High Court of Justice pose a grave danger to democracy in Israel”. In a statement he made to Ynetnews on 16 September 2017, Gross said that “any enlightened democratic system gives its high court the power to check its laws and examine how constitutional they are.
The Regional Unit for Combating Corruption and Organised Crime (Lahav 433) of the Israeli Police has recently extended investigations into corruption cases. The primary suspect in two of three cases is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In the third case, corruption suspicions surround confidantes of Netanyahu.
The three cases are as follows:
Election of Avi Gabai as a leader of the Israeli Labour Party on Monday, 10 July 2017, was not as big a surprise as it had been expected. However, the political centre-left wing seemed to be happy that Gabai had won.
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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."
