Knesset
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - APRIL 15: Israel's Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks down the line of notables including Chief Rabbis and military officials, alongside Israeli President Shimon Peres and Yoel Eldelstein, new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament), during a Memorial Ceremony during Remembrance Day for the fallen soldiers at Mount Herzel Military Cemetery on April 15, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. On Remembrance Day Isrealis remember more than 25,000 men and women who have been killed in combat or conflict since 1860. In accordance with the Jewish calendar, the day is followed by the anniversary of the creation of Israel.
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Mandatory service is being postponed by four years, perhaps to the next Knesset term, so that there is a very big chance that it will never happen
The future of our existence is in danger. There should be Knesset committees to reform the secular education, which creates criminals and murderers, rather than recruiting yeshiva scholars for army service.
The law is not good. Israel made an agreement,, and this is the law that the Knesset passed. Many of my critics were in the Knesset when this law was passed. This didnג€™t happen in the dead of night.More quotes »
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Haredi soldier: My life is in peril due to haredi incitement
came the same day as a report proposing far-reaching reforms to the process of enlistment of haredim into the IDF was submitted to the Knesset. The committee responsible for the report, headed by Minister Yaakov Peri of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, suggested 11:17 AM from Ynetnews Read more »
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Joint Committee Meeting on Protecting Bedouin Women
Aliza Lavie of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Miri Regev of the Interior and Environmental Protection Committee will hold a joint hearing on protection for at-risk Bedouin women. Doctor Lavie said, "It is time to address what is happening 9:59 AM from Arutz Sheva Read more »
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MK Porush: Peri Committee designed to crush Torah world
of Knesset Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) referred to the recruitment proposal suggested by the Peri Committee for Promoting Equal Share of the Burden and said: "It is a miserable bill designed to crush the world of Torah." Porush added: "The future of 7:34 AM from Ynetnews Read more »
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New bill: Haredi recruitment at age 21; 1,800 exemptions
A report will be handed every six months to the Knesset Committee for Promoting Equal Share of the Burden and also to a Knesset committee to be formed for this purpose. The Education Ministry will provide the IDF with information on audits conducted in the 5:50 AM from Ynetnews Read more »
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J Street: Demand Israel’s Peace Process Goal be Palestinian State
will bring peace. The importance of the caucus on organ harvesting in China, sponsored recently by the Liberal Lobby in the Knesset, cannot be exaggerated. On the surface, the caucus’s topic seems odd. Knesset members and other VIPs were called together to 5/22/13 from The Jewish Press Read more »
