Tel Aviv police chief quits, citing government meddling against protesters
JerusalemReuters Tel Aviv’s police commander said on Wednesday he was quitting the force, citing political intervention by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right cabinet whom he said wanted excessive force used against anti-government protesters. Tel Aviv District Commander Ami Eshed did not name the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who had demanded tough […]
Israeli troops start withdrawing from West Bank’s Jenin
Jenin, West Bank Reuters Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday, a defence source and Reuters witnesses said, after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years. Two Reuters witnesses said they saw convoys of Israeli military vehicles leaving Jenin in what appeared […]
Tel Aviv hit by car-ramming, stabbing as Israel’s Jenin operation winds up
Jenin, West Bank Reuters Thousands of people were evacuated from the Jenin refugee camp as one of Israel’s biggest military operations in years moved to a second day on Tuesday and a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv underlined the risk of a spillover in violence. The operation, which the army said was aimed at […]
Tens of thousands protest against planned Israeli judicial overhaul
Tel AvivReuters Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country, now entering their 20th week, on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court. The planned overhaul, which would give the government control over naming judges to the Supreme Court and let parliament override many rulings, […]
Hebrew Bible purchased for $US38.1 million for display at Jewish museum
New York, USRNS The Codex Sassoon, a late ninth or early 10th-century book Sotheby’s has dubbed the “earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible,” was sold for $US38.1 million on Wednesday afternoon to American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People. It will become part of the museum’s core exhibition and permanent collection in Tel […]
Tens of thousands join protests against Israeli judicial overhaul
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bitterly disputed plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court. The planned overhaul, which would give the government control over naming judges to the Supreme Court and let parliament override many rulings, was paused after […]
Israelis protest planned judicial overhaul ahead of 75th independence day
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court, ahead of Israel’s independence day marking 75 years since establishment of the Jewish state. The plans were paused last month in the face of a wave of strikes and mass […]
Thousands join Israeli judicial protests in shadow of attacks
Tel Aviv, Israel Reuters Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court, despite heightened security worries after two deadly attacks a day earlier. The latest in a series of protests against the plans, which were paused last month in the face […]
Tensions high in Israel after deadly attacks
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters An Italian tourist was killed and five people were wounded in a car ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that came hours after two Israeli sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. The attacks, after a night of crossborder strikes in Gaza and Lebanon, added to an […]
Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible
JerusalemAP One of the oldest surviving Biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours – for a cool $US30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in May. Its […]