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agreements between “Likud” and “Blue and White”.

Due to major importance of these issues, president of the supreme court has decided of an extended panel of justices: 11 out of 15 supreme court justices. As part of a new pilot, discussions will be broadcast live.

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Israeli High Court of Justice will discuss two petitions next week, trying to prevent #Netanyahu from forming a government. The first is dealing with the ability of someone with criminal indictments to form a government. The second is dealing with the legality of the coalition

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This is how the black flags protest in #TelAviv looked last night, keeping the 2 meters gap instructions. Quite impressive.
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מחאת הדגלים השחורים ( צולם בתחילת ההפגנה)

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square. Due to #Covid-19 instructions they had to stand 2 meters one from each other. Tonight, they protest again in Tel-Aviv, this time in Rabin Square.
The song in the video below is “Hazman Le’hitorer” (It’s time to wake up), By the hip-hop band “Hadag Nahash”.

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The Black Flags protest started about a month ago. The activists protest the erosion of Israeli democracy and corruption. They oppose a government led by #Netanyahu, who is accused of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
Last Thursday protesters organized a protest in Habima

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calling for governmental compensation for their businesses and for sharing the financial burden with the public sector. Tomorrow morning, they have a protest in few locations in Israel, including in front of the #Knesset.

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“Ani Shulman” (I am Shulman) is the name of a Facebook group and organization dealing with the self-employed challenges. They are trying to fight the Israeli bureaucracy and promote the self-employed interests. Now, due to #Covid19, they initiated a campaign

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Will #Netanyahu form a government? The answer bounds with his legal situation. His main incentive to form a government is finding majority of Knesset members promising he can overcome Bagatz (Israeli High Court) in case of conviction. Israeli democracy is on stake.
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Benny Gantz’s mandate to form government has finished last night. Now the Knesset gets the mandate for 21 days, meaning any Knesset Member can form a government if he finds at least 61 members of Knesset supporting him. If this doesn’t happen, we go to 4th consecutive #elections.

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reports of these wild animals walking in the city. They usually stay in Mount Carmel wadis during the night and sometimes go to the closer city streets during the day. Now, when fewer people walk in the streets due to #Covid19, getting there became even easier for the boars.

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The Guardian newspaper’s picture-editors chose a picture from #Haifa, showing boars walking in the city, to be included in their last week top pictures.
The port city of Haifa is in the northern part of Mount Carmel, where boars are living.
During the last years there are more

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3/ citizens to marry legally inside the borders of Israel. Such are interfaith marriage and same sex marriage.

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1/ Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, passed away last night after suffering from #Coronavirus. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has 2 Chief Rabbis, Ashkenazi Rabbi and a Sephardi Rabbi. Bakshi-Doron was the Chief Sephardi Rabbi, who is also called “Rishon

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2/ Lezion” (First to Zion).The Chief Rabbinate is a very conservative institute and is often criticized, mainly by secular people, due to its monopoly on issues such as marriage and kosher food. Civil marriage in #Israel is prohibited, preventing hundreds of thousands of Israeli

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@HShenhav מסתבר שהוא גם ניחן בהומור עצמי ;)

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While everything is shut down in #Israel, #Channel12 broadcast every evening a live show, with no audience, of a leading Israeli Singer. This evening there’s a show of #AvivGefen, which was recognized as one of the leading Israeli Rock artists of the 90’s.

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3/ “Juha’s Guesthouse” is one of the inspiring businesses there, involving tourism and empowerment of the local community. You can read more about them in their website: https://t.co/PpiXHY2pn1

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1/ #Covid19 information about Arab villages in Israel shows the village of Jisr az-Zarqa has one of the highest rates of #Covid19 infection per capita.Jisr az-Zarka is the only Arab village in Israel located next to the sea. It is a fishermen’s village with one of the most

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2/ astonishing seashores in Israel. When visiting there, you could see the contrast between the village, which is one of the poorest places in Israel, to the adjacent Caesarea, which is one of the richest places in Israel.The village has a significant tourism potential, and

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So far #Coronavirus caused 96 death cases in #Israel. One of the most interesting facts is that around a third of the people who passed away were living in Nursing and Retirement homes.
In the graph below the red line shows the growth in death cases per day.

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3/ last Israeli elections. That delay was made by Yuli Edelstein, the last Parliament’s spokesperson from Likud party.

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1/ The Israeli #democracy is having hard times, and the civil movement “DARKENU” (our way) is establishing the “DEMOCRAT.V”, an independent T.V, based on 3 principles: Democracy promoting, public participation and giving a stage to the less heard people in the society.The

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2/ establishment of “DEMOCRAT.V” is happening following an online protest they initiated, having around 100,000 participants. The protest had to be online due to #Covid19 restrictions, and it was initiated because of the delay in appointing a new Parliament spokesperson after the