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Israel's former leader says Netanyahu should either reform his coalition or resign

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the government's choice to delay a vote on a controversial judicial overhaul amounts to a temporary compromise. He tells NPR what he'd like to see next.

WEKU

Here’s Israel’s judicial proposal that drew people to protest

Reports indicate PM Netanyahu will halt his plans, after weeks of protest and the sacking of his defence minister.

Al Jazeera

Israeli PM Netanyahu says he is ‘not ready to divide the nation in pieces’ after mass protests over judicial overhaul – as it happened

Israeli prime minister confirms he will delay controversial measure for several weeks after tens of thousands protested

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As tensions reach breaking point, Israelis are arming themselves and Palestinians are seeking revenge

With both Israeli settlers and Palestinian assailants involved in rising violence, critics fear a new 'wild west' mentality is taking hold in the region.

ABC News

Concern over violence as Palestinians prepare for Ramadan in Jerusalem

Bloodshed and hardline Israeli politics raise tensions on eve of Muslim holy month

The Guardian - UK

Longtime Israel backers in US turn outraged critics — but Biden administration remains distant

WASHINGTON — With massive street protests, a mutiny by elite military reserve officers and outrage from diplomats, academics and former officials, Israel seems steeped in epic crisis.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Right now, to love Israel is to denounce it

When my maternal grandmother was around 7 years old, she was nearly the victim of a pogrom. It was the late 1930s. Europe was a stretched rubber band, soon to snap. My grandma was visiting family in a small Polish town. One day, the non-Jewish inhabitants wielded knives and sticks…

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Israel’s President Calls to Scrap Judicial Overhaul as Protests Mount

Israel's president urged the government to abandon attempts to push through bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary and seek a model with broad support as tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets on Thursday. The drive by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government to enact sweeping changes…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israelis protesting judicial reform force Netanyahu airlift

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be airlifted on Thursday to the country's main international airport for an official overseas trip, after throngs of cars and protesters prevented him from driving there.

France 24

Trudy Rubin: Netanyahu's attack on Israel's judiciary also impacts the United States

It is quite stunning to watch the elected leader of a democracy drag his country toward authoritarianism and a civil war — and all for egotistical reasons.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Israeli President Announces A Close Agreement To Judicial Reform As Lawmakers Seek Common Ground

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday told a gathering of some 100 municipal officials that a compromise judicial reform

Zenger

At Least 6 Palestinians Killed during Israeli West Bank Raid

The Israeli army raided the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, Palestinian health officials said, leading to a gunbattle that killed at least six Palestinians and wounded 10 others. Israeli military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss events still unfolding, said the army had entered Jenin…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli minister parties with settlers in West Bank city

Israel’s far-right national security minister has joined Jewish revelers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron

The Independent UK

Israel Demolishes Homes in Jerusalem, Prepares for Evictions in Sheikh Jarrah

Israel demolished three houses on Monday in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem under the pretext of construction without a permit. The Israeli move violates the Aqaba understandings, which stipulated the cessation of unilateral measures, which the Palestinians limited to storming the Palestinian Authority (PA) areas, demolishing Jerusalem…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel President Says Judicial Compromise ‘Closer’ as Protests Escalate

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday said a compromise in the government's judicial overhaul plan could be imminent even as protests against the reform continued to spread. Local media circulated a letter by 10 former air force chiefs to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of the "grave and tangible" threat…

Zenger

Police Struggle With Anti-Judicial Reform Demonstrators As They Attempted To Block Roads

Israelis demonstrating in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the government’s judicial reform plan defied police orders.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Demands Clarifications from Israel over Aqaba Statements

Washington has demanded clarifications from the Israeli government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some of his ministers reneged on the agreements reached at last month’s Aqaba meeting. Official broadcaster Kan said on Saturday that the US administration requested clarifications after Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister…

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right

Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians

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Israeli Attorney General Authorizes A Law Enforcement Investigation Against A Knesset Member.

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has given the green light for a police investigation of Zvika Fogel

The Independent UK

Netanyahu denounces protesters after salon siege of his wife

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say protesters are “anarchists” after they gathered outside a Tel Aviv salon where his wife was getting her hair done

The Independent UK

What's driving the players behind Israel's legal overhaul?

Proponents of the Israeli government's planned legal overhaul often argue that curtailing the power of judges and courts is good for the country

France 24

Israeli police use stun grenades, water cannon in crackdown on protests against judicial reform

Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel’s hard-line national security minister urged a tough response to what he said were…

Al Jazeera

Palestine’s Huwara should be wiped out: Top Israeli minister

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for the destruction of Huwara that was the target of deadly settler rampage.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Minister Says Palestinian Planned to Kill Him

Israel’s controversial far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Tuesday police had arrested a Palestinian who planned to assassinate him. A statement from his office said the man, who was not identified, was arrested several weeks ago. “The Arab suspect, a Jerusalem resident, who was planning to assassinate National…

Al Jazeera

Israel releases settlers arrested after anti-Palestinian attacks

Only eight Jewish settlers were arrested after Sunday’s attack on villages near Nablus that left one Palestinian dead.

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