Category: Keeping Up With Our MKs
We elect a party whose platform seems to most closely fit with our vision of what needs to be done to ensure that Israel develops as a healthy and ethical state. The Members of Knesset (MKs) are those who propel this boat and the Cabinet is supposed to be the rudder. Are they fulfilling their promise? In order to judge, we need to know what they are doing. I will, periodically, check in with them and see what they are doing within the Knesset plenum and in committees and report back here what I find.
A new bill for deportation of terrorist families from Israel was voted into the law books late last night (7 Nov 2024). Under the new legislation, under certain conditions, certain family members can be...
In this article, I provide a description of the bills relevant to judicial appointments that were tabled over the decades, beginning in 1984. For clarity, I will first list the differences between the current...
Here I present the second subsection of amendments related to judicial selection laws as they stand now, after having gone through the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Knesset. Amendments to Basic Law:...
Amendments to Section 4 of Basic Law: Judiciary is perhaps the most contentious issue regarding reform of the way in which judges are appointed. This particular paragraph delineates members of the Judge Selection Committee....
Is the composition of the SC panel of judges about to be tampered with? Is this another stage in the volcanic upheaval in the judiciary, referred to as a regime change by those who...
Remember “The Three No’s” of the Khartoum Resolution: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. That’s what came to mind when I saw a Facebook post in response to...
When you cry out that women will be hurt if the coalition successfully passes a bill reversing the Supreme Court order that the Rabbinic Court not handle child support payment determinations, then you may...
Over the winter session, 28 bills were voted into Law. Many of us heard about the Settlement Law, the Disengagement Law, The Prime Minister Incapacity Bill, The Der’i Law, the law revoking terrorist citizenship...