المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيلية
This issue of the Newsletter covers the period 14-16 January 2018. Israeli social media networks were primarily preoccupied with one issue, namely Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech.
This paper covers the period 11 – 13 January 2018. Two issues preoccupied the Israeli social media networks. The first issue was the approval of the State budget. This week, the Israeli cabinet approved the State budget and the financial plan for 2019. The size of this budget is NIS 397.3 billion; NIS 60 billion of which is allocated for education, NIS 38 billion for health, NIS 13 billion welfare for Holocaust survivors and NIS 2 billion allocated for disability. While NIS 63 billion were allocated to Defence Ministry.
This bulletin covers the period period 8 – 11 January 2018. Israeli social media networks got caught up on two issues. The more significant of the two was one about recordings documenting the Prime Minister’s son, Yair Netanyahu, exposing his father’s shady deals while in a strip club.
This bulletin covers the period from 1 – 7 January 2018; through which Israeli social media was preoccupied with two issues. The first is the approving of the death penalty bill.
The Knesset approved the first reading of the death penalty bill last Wednesday. The voting was 52 to 49 in favour of the bill, of 120 which is the total number of MKs in the Israeli Knesset.
This bulletin covers the period 28 – 31 December 2017, the social media was buzzing with a number of issues, starting with the discussions over approving the bill of Recommendations Law.
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"The Limits of the Actual Impact of Recent Protest Petitions on the War: 'Citizen Priorities' Versus 'Security Priorities'"
The Repercussions of the War against Gaza on Israel's Relations with Russia and Turkey: Will There Be Fundamental Changes?
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."
