Beytenu in Action

  • (10-11-2007)

    Bill: Want citizenship? Pledge allegiance

    A new bill submitted by Knesset Member David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu) on Monday calls for stipulating eligibility for a citizenship on a declaration of loyalty to the State of Israel.   According to the bill, those who apply for Israeli citizenship will have to pledge allegiance in the following form: "I hereby pledge my loyalty to the State of Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state, its symbols and values, and serve the country, as shall be required of me, in the IDF." Furthermore, the bill states that minors...
  • (03-10-2007)

    Gush Etzion celebrations

    The Etzion Block was the birthplace of the Jewish Settlement movement. Here our spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here we created cultural values of national and universal significance and exemplified to the world the values of the eternal Book of Books. Three times in modern history, Jewish residents of the Etzion block have been forcefully exiled: After the Arab pogroms of 1929; after the Arab pogroms of 1936; and on the fourth day of the Jewish month of Iyar, 5708 – a day before the establishment of the State...
  • (11-09-2007)

    Lieberman's speech delivered at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism "Terror and Drugs"

    The following speech was delivered at the international Institute for counter-Terrrorism's "Terrorism's Global Imapact" annual conference on Sep. 10th, in a session on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Crime. TERROR AND DRUGS  I would like to start by reminding you of the 1963 James Bond movie, "From Russia With Love". Ernest Bluefield, the head of the SPECTRE terror organization, illustrates the organization's strategy for achieving world domination: In an aquarium, he has 3 fighting fish....
  • (28-08-2007)

    Electoral Reform on the way

    Prime minister, Yisrael Beiteinu chairman to try and push bill by end of Knesset's winter session   Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman are working towards changing the form of government before the Knesset's winter session ends. According to the proposed bill proper government complies with four elements: stability, ability to govern, the Knesset's effectiveness and the responsibility the government shows its constituents. Although the bill's content, provisions and allowances...
  • (21-06-2007)

    Caring for the City of Sderot

    A new Knesset bill granting the residents of Sderot and the surrounding communities "confrontation line" status passed its first reading on wensday (20.06). The bill, which was proposed by MKs Stas Miseznicov (Israel Beiteinu) and Shai Hermesh (Kadima) would give the Gaza periphery area the same status that was given to the North during the Second Lebanon War.  If the bill passes a second and third reading, the residents would receive financial benefits - including employer tax breaks, reduced local taxes, and special...
  • (30-05-2007)

    New Student Rights Law Passed

    The new law, the brainchild of M"K Alex miller (Israel Beytenu) and M"K Silvan Shalom (Likud) will fix student's rights into law. The law had a wide array of topics related to the needs of the student population, both inside the university and in the first initial years after the end of studies. The law has standardized academic rights such as right to sit two exams for every course regardless of the initial grade in the first exam, and the right of every student to examine his graded test. Furthermore the law mandates...
  • (27-05-2007)

    Lieberman’s conversion revolution

    Bill proposed by Yisrael Beiteinu says conversions to Judaism in Israel should be performed by city rabbinates rather than special conversion courts to make process ‘more friendly’. For the full text of this article as published in YNETNEWS, press Here.
  • (16-05-2007)

    Conversion in Israel

    The Public Petitions Committee met today(16.05.07), to discuss complaints of citizens regarding the conversion process in Israel. The complaints were that the current conversion process makes it too difficult and too long for people seeking to convert. The petitioners claimed that it can take up to 11 months after the end of studies in the conversion colleges until they can appear before a religious court. Another complaint was that the religious beit-din puts unneeded hardships and criteria for applicants to conversion, which prevent...

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