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Sat Oct 4

• Welchen Namen hat das israelische Parlament ?: 1. Kibbuz 2. Knesset 3. Khuzot 4. Kabuff

Mon Sep 29

• 'Racist' marriage law upheld by Israel - Middle East, World - The Independent: Israel's High Court has narrowly upheld a law denying Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza married to Israeli citizens the right to live in the country with their spouses. The judges voted by six to five not to cancel a four-year-old amendment to the Citizenship Law which outlaws "family unification&qu ot; in Israel between Palestinians and Arab citizens of Israel. It was passed as a one-year emergency measure in 2002 on the ground that it was needed to protect Israeli security. But the amendment, described yesterday by the Knesset member Ran Cohen, of the left-wing Meretz party, as "rooted in racism", has been renewed every year since then.

Wed Sep 24

• ReliefWeb: Israel-OPT: Palestinian villages come under attack. and burnt down more than 400 Palestinian olive trees, according to residents. "The trees burned for hours,": Olmert said the dream of a "greater Israel" was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of Assira Qabaliya causing extensive damage and wounding several people, in what was a reprisal attack. "There will be no pogroms against non-Jewish residents,&quo t; the outgoing premier told his cabinet on 14 Sep. Police said an investigation had been launched but no arrests made. The Knesset internal affairs committee convened an urgent meeting to discuss the event, sparked when a Palestinian stabbed a boy and burned a house at a settlement outpost. Video footage showed settlers attacking the Palestinian village with Israeli soldiers present. "If the army is here or not, the settlers will attack,"
• Q & A with Colette Avital: Voluntary Evacuation and Compensation | Middle East Progress: Colette Avital answers questions about the Knesset bill to incentivize the departure of settlers from the West Bank.

Mon Sep 15

• Israel | One of the trickiest jobs in the world | Economist.com

Sat Sep 13

• Rights group: Shin Bet lied about interrogations - Haaretz - Israel News: A human rights group has accused the Shin Bet of giving false information about its method of interrogating suspects, in order to prevent its procedures from being documented. According to attorney Eliyahu Avram of the Public Committee against Torture, the Shin Bet's alleged prevarication came to light when one of its officials told the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Tuesday that it carried out its interrogations with police. Prior to this, the security organization had claimed that police were not present during interrogations in order to bypass a law that requires documenting procedures, Avram said. "I was surprised they admitted it," Avram said. "They claimed at an earlier hearing that there were two different stages of interrogation. Now they are saying the opposite: that it's a joint interrogation

Fri Sep 5

• Project Syndicate --God's Warriors Are Multiplying by Raja Kamal. Israel has been slowly evolving from a culturally Jewish democracy into a religiously dominated one.: Israel?s Haredi ultra-orthodox religious community is growing at a rate so high that it is redefining the political landscape. According to Israeli government statistics, Haredi Jews average 7.6 children per woman, almost 3 times the rate of the population as a whole. Of the Israeli Knesset?s 120 members, 20 (all male) are ultra-Orthodox , up from five just a couple of decades ago. The number of ultra-Orthodox in the Knesset is projected to grow further as their constituents multiply. In the fractured political landscape typical of Israel, this would make it possible for organized religious parties to exert significant power over the government. At the same time, many educated and secular Israelis are choosing to emigrate, seeking a life without ceaseless conflicts. It is estimated that about half a million Israelis, including 25% of Israel?s leading scholars, now reside in the US. Indeed, some 40,000 Israelis reside in Silicon Valley alone.

Wed Sep 3

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Tue Aug 26

• 10% percent of Israeli prostitutes are minors | Israel | Jerusalem Post: The age of those being forced into the sex industry is rapidly falling, with more than 1,000 out of the estimated 10,000 prostitutes in Israel being minors, according to statistics collected this year by counter-traffi cking non-government al organization, the Task Force on Human Trafficking (TFHT). These figures, which are based on the findings of numerous non-government al and official sources, were presented Wednesday at a special session of the Knesset Sub-Committee on Human Trafficking - headed by Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On - focusing on a new Education Ministry initiative aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of the sex industry in general and human trafficking in particular among school-age children. TFHT's report also noted a new trend of 13 and 14 year olds frequenting prostitutes. "It is essential that the future generation learns about equality between the sexes and is given the tools to correctly judge and evaluate this phenomenon,&qu ot; Tamir tsaid

Mon Aug 25

• How Grandma Rachel conserved water - Haaretz - Israel News: Statistics published by the Knesset's research division, nothing has been done in the last decade to save water in either the municipal or household sectors, despite the fact that the growing problem of dwindling water supplies was known to all the relevant decision makers, as well as to the public at large. The chairman of the public committee entrusted with examining how the water supply is managed, estimated as far back as the mid-1990s that municipalities and local councils had the potential to save up to 150 million cubic meters of water per year, 20% of the total amount of water this sector consumes annually. Today, it is clear that attempts at scare-mongerin g and preaching to the public have not helped in conserving water

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