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Jerusalem CNN —Thousands of marchers arrived in Jerusalem Saturday, the culmination of a five-day walk from Tel Aviv to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to weaken the powers of Israel’s courts. The demonstrators arrived the day before Israeli lawmakers begin debating what could become the first element of the plan to be voted into law. Organizers estimated there could be as many as 30,000 people on the march, while CNN journalists said the number appeared to be closer to 5,000. Netanyahu is pressing on with his plans after pausing them earlier this year in the face of widespread protests and international pressure. Netanyahu and his allies call the measures “reforms” and say they are required to rebalance powers between the courts, lawmakers and the government.

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☆ Huwara: The settler attack on this West Bank town was called a 'pogrom' by Israel's military. Videos show soldiers did little to stop it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Gianluca Mezzofiore Celine Alkhaldi Abeer Salman Nima Elbagir | Gianluca Mezzofiore | Celine Alkhaldi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

Smoke rises over Huwara after Israeli settlers rampaged through the town, setting fire to homes, businesses and cars. Videos chronolocated at 8:25 p.m. show fire trucks and ambulances being stopped by Israeli soldiers at the roundabout leading to Huwara’s main street. Soon after, they returned with a group of Israeli soldiers in tow, Abdalmenem said. Israeli soldiers are now on permanent patrol of the town, periodically closing roads and forcing shops to shutter, according to residents, who said it is impacting their livelihoods. A man inspects the damage to a restaurant following a reported attack by Israeli settlers in Huwara on March 28.

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☆ Hunger Strikes Have Long Served as a Tool of Nonviolent Protest
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Cora Engelbrecht | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How is force-feeding hunger strikers viewed? The authorities are typically eager to quash any potential fallout from prisoners’ dying and loathe the spectacle that hunger strikes can create. International groups like the United Nations, the International Red Cross and the World Medical Association have long recognized the right of prisoners to refuse food. And it has been labeled “a form of torture and is contrary to medical ethics,” according to the World Medical Association. Despite these objections, the U.S. military has force-fed prisoners on hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay, saying that it had no other choice but to keep them alive, and none have starved.

☆ Israel’s Netanyahu Says He is Committed to Compromise on Judicial Overhaul as Knesset Reconvenes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

From blocking highways to dressing up as handmaids, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have protested for three months against a judicial overhaul planned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Photo Composite: Emily SiuTEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he is committed to reaching a compromise over a proposed judicial overhaul that has sharply divided the country, even as he comes under increasing pressure from elements within his own government to advance the legislation. Mr. Netanyahu agreed at the end of March to delay a vote on a key piece of the legislation and engage in negotiations with the opposition until after Israel’s Parliament, or Knesset, reconvened after Jewish and national holidays. The bill would have been the first piece of a broader effort to weaken the power of the Supreme Court and give greater control to elected lawmakers. The Knesset reconvenes Sunday, adding urgency to the talks with the opposition as the coalition can now advance pieces of the overhaul for the first time since negotiations began.

Police sprayed protesters with water cannons on a highway in Tel Aviv. ReutersCivil unrest broke out in Israel’s major cities as protesters opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system. Tel Aviv: Protesters block highway and clash with policeThousands of protesters blocked Ayalon highway, the main highway in Tel Aviv, for several hours overnight, lighting bonfires along the road until the early hours of Monday morning. Yehuda Bergstein/EPA, via ShutterstockIsraeli police cleared the highway overnight, but protesters blocked it again on Monday as widespread protests continued. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York TimesProtesters scuffled with police outside the parliament as the rally grew on Monday.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel will increase security and “strengthen the settlements” in response to gun attacks in Jerusalem Friday and Saturday that killed seven Israelis and badly wounded five others, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday. On Saturday, two people were allegedly injured in a separate gun attack in east Jerusalem by a Palestinian shooter in his early teens. In response, Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip fired rockets into Israel, which in turn triggered retaliatory Israeli airstrikes. The attacks present a challenge for the recently re-elected Netanyahu, who on Sunday visited those injured in Friday's attack at two hospitals in Jerusalem. At protests in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Saturday night, demonstrators held a moment of silence for the Jerusalem shooting victims.

☆ Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Says He Can Form a Government, Bringing Him Closer to Return to Power
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the country’s president that he will be able to form a government, bringing him closer to a return to power, though challenges remain. Mr. Netanyahu on Wednesday told President Isaac Herzog that he has enough support from lawmakers to form a governing coalition, a necessary step in Israel’s parliamentary system before he can take over as prime minister. Still, Mr. Netanyahu needs to finish coalition agreements with all his partners, which he has yet to publicly announce, and seal the deal with a confidence vote in parliament.

☆ Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks New Israeli Laws to Satisfy Political Allies’ Demands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Benjamin Netanyahu, seated in red tie, is pushing a law that would allow his ally Aryeh Deri, standing, to serve in the cabinet. TEL AVIV— Benjamin Netanyahu is shepherding through Israel’s parliament several laws that would codify the unusual agreements he has made with coalition partners in exchange for their support, the final hurdle in his comeback bid as prime minister. One such law would grant Aryeh Deri , an ultra-Orthodox Jewish politician and Netanyahu ally convicted less than a year ago of tax evasion, a workaround to the prohibition on convicts serving in the cabinet. The law would allow people recently convicted of crimes to serve as ministers if they had suspended jail terms and didn’t serve time in prison, like Mr. Deri. Mr. Netanyahu has pegged Mr. Deri for three different ministerial positions: health, interior and alternating finance minister.

☆ Israel’s Netanyahu given chance to form far-right government
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

He will formally present Netanyahu with the task on Sunday and give him a month to cobble together a governing coalition with a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. Netanyahu had governed Israel for 12 successive years before being being ousted by a broad but fragile coalition in 2021. Those recommending Netanyahu included Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party, the ultranationalist Religious Zionist party, the openly homophobic Noam faction, and other ultra-Orthodox parties. Like its previous repeated elections, Israel’s Nov. 1 vote was largely centered on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule. Critics see him as a crook who threatens Israel’s democratic institutions by placing his legal woes above the national interest.

☆ Netanyahu eyes comeback in Israel election with help of far-right
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Raf Sanchez | Raf Sanchez Is A Foreign Correspondent For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, stayed in power with the support of religious and right-wing parties. Netanyahu’s hopes of forming a 61-seat majority government rest in part on the support of the far-right Jewish Power party (Otzma Yehudit). Once shunned from Israel’s political mainstream, Jewish Power and other far-right parties are enjoying unprecedented popularity heading into this election. If that projection holds, it would make them the third-largest faction in parliament and give them significant leverage in potential coalition negotiations with Netanyahu. It would likely also mean a Cabinet post for Itamar Ben Gvir, the firebrand leader of Jewish Power, who among other things supports the deportation of Arab citizens who are deemed to be “disloyal” to Israel.

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