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Libyan foreign minister flees to Turkey after meeting Israel counterpart

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday a revision to the procedures for confidential diplomatic meetings after his foreign minister sparked controversy by disclosing a closed-door meeting with the Libyan counterpart. Netanyahu instructed all government ministers to seek approval from his office before conducting any …

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Israel to sign largest missile deal with Germany

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua |  Israel announced on Thursday that it will sell its most advanced missile defense system Arrow-3 to Germany, marking the country’s largest-ever military deal. The Israeli and German defense ministries “will sign the landmark 3.5-billion-U.S. dollar defense agreement,” the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement. …

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Israel’s slippery slope

COMMENT | NOURIEL ROUBINI | My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopted, leading many to worry that this great country’s robust liberal democracy is being eroded. Since Israel …

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Israeli army withdraws from Jenin after 2-day operation

Jenin, Palestine | Xinhua |  The Israeli forces pulled out on Tuesday night from the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, ending two days of a large-scale military operation, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. Israel Radio reported that the Israeli forces, backed by armored vehicles, withdrew …

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Law’s struggle for dignity

Democracies are dispensing with the ideal that judges are not supposed to be a direct source of political controversy COMMENT | NICHOLAS REED LANGEN | One telling development in the popular demonstrations against the Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms has been the concentration of protesters on a small side street in …

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Israeli PM suspends judicial overhaul plan amid protests

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday evening that he would suspend the legislation of his contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary by about a month to allow “dialogue” between coalition and opposition lawmakers. He made the remarks in a televised speech, which came after …

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Israelis step up protest against judicial overhaul

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israelis were stepping up on Thursday their protest against the controversial government plan to overhaul the judiciary, blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s route to the airport ahead of an official trip to Italy. On a nationwide “Day of Resistance,” dozens of demonstrations were being held …

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