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☆ Netanyahu ejects party activist over Holocaust mockery at judicial protest
  + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
JERUSALEM, July 16 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ejection on Sunday of an activist from his Likud party who mocked the Holocaust while heckling anti-government protesters, in remarks that suggested ethnic tensions beneath a constitutional crisis. "We will not tolerate such disgraceful behaviour in the Likud movement," Netanyahu said in a statement on the ouster of Zarka, for years a towering figure at party campaign events. Denying the Holocaust, questioning its scale or celebrating it is punishable by five years' in jail under Israeli law. The historical catastrophe is an issue that generally unites Jews, and Zarka's remarks were condemned across the political spectrum. Critics of the proposed judicial reforms argue that Netanyahu seeks to curb court independence even as he argues his innocence in a long-running corruption trial.
Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Beit Shean, Netanyahu, Zarka, Zarka's, Dan Williams, Frances Kerry Organizations: Likud, Thomson Locations: Beit, Germany
☆ The 2 Israels: Court Crisis Is Front Line for Dueling Visions of a Nation’s Future
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Beit Shean is a sleepy low-rise community where most restaurants close on the Jewish Sabbath. Many of the Mizrahim there see the Supreme Court as an unelected elite — dominated by Ashkenazi judges — that unfairly subverts the public’s elected representatives. In recent weeks, those divisions have led to open confrontations on the roads around Beit Shean. In March, dozens of government supporters, some of them from Beit Shean, took over a major intersection near the city and blocked drivers they suspected were anti-government kibbutzniks, but they allowed Beit Shean residents and government supporters to pass. Yair Ben Hamo, a Mizrahi resident of Beit Shean who helped lead the roadblock, said he was motivated by issues “way more complex than just the reform.”
☆ Israel refills the Sea of Galilee, supplying Jordan on the way
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Ari Rabinovitch | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
[1/5] A bay at the Sea of Galilee can be seen in northern Israel, January 23, 2023. The Sea of Galilee, whose waters Christians believe Jesus walked upon, is Israel's main reservoir and a big tourist draw. It feeds the Jordan River that flows south to the Dead Sea. The national water carrier is empty at the moment, undergoing seasonal repairs and upgrades. At one junction in northern Israel, engineers work on a pipe more than large enough for them to stand inside.
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