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Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian man in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Will Israel be in a ‘state of emergency’ forever?

The anti-terror law passed through Israel’s Knesset last week without one of its scariest pieces, the normalization of administrative detention, which remains dependent on the country’s 67-year-old self-declared state of emergency. That could have a bizarre consequence. A new anti-terrorism bill passed by Israel’s Knesset last week may have actually perpetuated the single, looming problem its writers…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 20, 2016

Palestinian youth throw stones near Ofer Military Prison [illustrative], May 15, 2012 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Throwing stones, starting fires: Shaked’s first bill as justice minister

A draft law sponsored by Ayelet Shaked would dramatically lower the bar for convicting Palestinians in Jerusalem for throwing stones, and set a penalty of 10 years in prison. The law’s application to West Bank settlers is unlikely. A key government committee on Sunday passed a bill that would make it much easier to convict…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth June 1, 2015

Panel of the Israeli Supreme Court (file photo, Activestills.org)

Jerusalem bill: A return to anti-democratic legislation?

By a 5-4 majority, a ministerial committee on Sunday approved a bill that proposes to require 80 Knesset members to approve any negotiations about the future of Jerusalem before the issue can even be discussed in peace talks, as reported by Israeli press. It sounds like a technicality: the bill is far from passing as…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 22, 2013

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The Knesset (photo: Beny Shlevich/ CC BY-3.0)

Resource: War crimes in Israeli law

Israel has not yet enacted a law defining war crimes, and the military courts judge soldiers who violate the rules of law according to “regular” offenses. Yesh Din’s new report presents the need for Israeli legislation on this subject. The approach currently applied in Israel argues that ordinary domestic legislation is adequate for the prosecution…

By +972 Resources October 14, 2013

The Knesset (photo: Beny Shlevich/ CC BY-3.0)

Israeli government to back law allowing discrimination against Palestinians, ultra-Orthodox

The Israeli government’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation decided today (Sunday) to back a bill by MK Yariv Levin (Likud) which will allow discrimination against Arabs and ultra-Orthodox in employment and real-estate rights. According for the suggested legislation, favoring people who served in the IDF will not be considered discrimination nor will it be challengeable in…

By Noam Sheizaf June 16, 2013

Knesset outlaws political boycott by 48 votes to 37

The Knesset just passed into law the anti-boycott initiative bill of MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), by a majority of 47 to 38. Many Knesset members, including Shas, top Likud members and all of Atzmaut (Ehud Barak’s faction) were absent. Netanyahu was also absent from the vote. We hope to have the names of the MKs…

By Dimi Reider July 11, 2011

Loyalty laws draw unexpected supporters and opponents

It is not surprising that Israel Beitenu (“Israel is our home”), the party that ran on the platform of “No Loyalty – No Citizenship” would propose a bill giving preference to those who have served in the IDF or national service when applying for public sector jobs, over those who have not. The bill is…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 20, 2011

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Burqa ban bill squashed. Now onto real gender equality?

On Sunday, nrg reported (Heb), a bill that would have banned wearing burqas in certain situations was unanimously opposed by a government Ministerial Committee on legislation. It is not entirely a surprise that the bill was proposed by Kadima MK Marina Solodkin. In proposing this bill, Kadima placed itself even outside the range of hard-line…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 31, 2011

Government: No right to attorney for up to a year

YNET reports this morning that the ministerial committee for legislation has voted that the government would endorse a bill allowing courts to deny “security” prisoners right to meet with their attorney for up to a year. Under current legislation, prisoners may be barred from seeing a lawyer for up to three weeks, although various tricks…

By Dimi Reider December 13, 2010