Nation-state bill

Grapevine: A faux pas or a snub?

Lion acknowledged the presence of each as well as of city council members Hagit Moshe and Laura Wharton, who had been a thorn in the side of Lion’s predecessor, Nir Barkat.

MOSHE LION: The 2019 budget is the highest ever for Jerusalem.
Aharon Barak.

No, Aharon Barak does not oppose Israel’s Nation-State Law

druze leaders in protest

Ouch! The Nation-State Law and the Druze

Palestinian flags flutter at a protest against the Nation-State Law in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, August 11th, 2018

Israeli Arabs want to set July 19 as Apartheid Day


President Rivlin and Attorney General join against nation-state bill

Diaspora leaders set to join fight, too

Yousef Jabareen (Joint List) debating the Nation-State bill, July 10, 2018.

Netanyahu's nation-state bill harms diaspora in deal with ultra-Orthodox

The old draft said “the state will take action to maintain the connection between the state and the Jewish people wherever they are.” The new one replaced “wherever they are" with "in the Diaspora."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the 2018 AIPAC conference

New law permits PM to declare war by himself

Critics attacked the consolidation of power in the prime minister's hands.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, April 2018

Survey: Israeli Arab-Jewish relations rapidly deteriorating

Fewer Jews say they are ready to have Arab neighbors and fewer Arabs are accepting of Israel as a state with a Jewish majority.

Palestinian protesters wave Palestinian flags as Israelis carrying Israeli flags walk past in front of the Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City

‘Jewish law’ clause dropped from nation-state bill

The draft still includes a clause that demotes Arabic from being an official language to being one with "special status."

Jerusalem

Whither the nation-state law?

The Knesset building

European MPs: Jewish nation-state bill legalizes ‘systemic discrimination’

Members of European Parliament from across political spectrum come out against EU funding for BDS.

JOINT LIST members of Knesset stand in front of the European Council in Brussels last month.

Jewish nation-state bill runs into trouble with exclusionary towns clause

The 'separate communities' clause in the bill says that ''the state has the right to allow a community, including of one religion or nationality to establish a separate communal town.”

The Jewish-only kibbutz of Katzir, in nothern Israel

Revised nation-state bill deals with Jewish-democratic imbalance concerns

Some worry that in its current version, the nation-state bill could put religious law ahead of the laws passed by the Knesset.

Special committee to pass the Basic Law: Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish People committee chairman Amir Ohana (Likud) , Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin

Harmful revolution: the Nation-State bill's assault on equality

Should it pass, the bill will become the most important piece of legislation in the entire canon of Israeli law, on both a symbolic and practical level.

‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’