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From Our Knesset Members
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I am a refugee As a descendant of a family forced out of Algeria, my father and I – and the millions of other Jews from families who were expelled from Arab countries after 1948 – are entitled to redress. As a sitting member of a democratic government, it might appear strange to declare that I am a refugee. However, my father, his parents and family were just a few of the almost one million Jews who were expelled or forced out of Arab lands. My father and his family were ... |
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By a unanimous vote of 38- 0, MKs outlawed the sale of alcohol at stores between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.Restaurants and pubs are not covered by the legislation, but kiosks, gas station convenience stores, markets and pharmacies will be subject to the prohibition, with violators facing a minimum penalty of NIS 9,000.The law also allows police to seize alcohol being consumed in public and pour out the contents of the bottles.The law emerged from a combination of bills introduced by the ... |
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Chair of the Knesset Law Committe David Rotem will be bringing a slightly amended version of his conversion bill for discussion in the Knesset Law Committe. According to Rotem’s bill, city rabbi will also have the authority to conduct conversions, but these will be under the full authority and responsibility of the hands of the Chief Rabbinate. The goal of Rotem's bill is to ease the conversion process of thousands of Israelis from the Former Soviet Union, who today ... |
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MKs David Rotem and Robert Ilatov put forward their bill that would see those convicted of treason or espionage offenses have their citizenship revoked."The state is a body in which people partner in shared destiny. Citizenship is the certificate that allows people to participate in the body. There are, however, some people who are part of the body and who attempt to harm it,” said Rotem. " This bill proposes that the interior minister will have the authority to revoke ... |
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MK Alex Miller initiated a special Knesset session to discuss the significant number of Islamicist kindergartens in northern Israel said that his office was "piling up with the letter of many parents who are pleading for help over the infiltration of the Islamic Movement, and who claim their children are being exposed to radical content, affected by ignorance and turn to unemployment and crime." Miller also called on the "Ministry of Education to name more supervisors and ... |
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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met on Monday, 21 June 2010 with Dirk Niebel, German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, who is visiting Israel at the head of a large delegation.The visit follows the signing of the agreement for aid to developing countries by DFM Ayalon and Minister Niebel in Germany last January. Israel attributes great importance to the cooperation with Germany on aid issues, which have increased in momentum recently. This cooperation ... |
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Chair of the Knesset Law Committee, David Rotem and MK Robert Iliatov presented their bill to the Knesset on Sunday that would prevent terrorists with Israeli citizenship from receiving any National Insurance benefits."We have a number of instances in which Israeli citizens were involved in terror activities against fellow citizens. Because of their citizenship, the law guarantees that their families continue to enjoy National Insurance benefits, including those stemming from the death or ... |
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MK David Rotem the force behind Yisrael Beiteinu's bills to change the way both marriages and conversions are recognized in Israel, fired off a terse missive Tuesday to Religious Services Minister Ya’acov Margi (Shas), saying new rabbinic marriage protocols violate the law.Rotem’s letter called upon the Chief Rabbinate to reconsider its new, more stringent policies of checking the Judaism of couples seeking to marry, whose parents married overseas. It was the first political ... |
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