Bennett and Feiglin ran in independent lists and failed to pass the election threshold (although Bennett switched parties and made it into the next two Knessets). This indicates that while these ideas are gaining support within the community, they are
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older men. Rozin extensively documents both the public controversy that appeared in the press and in appeals to the Knesset for appropriate correction to this social practice, and the campaign to amend the inadequate laws inherited from the British
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Mount. When the chairman of the Knesset Committee for Internal Affairs, Dov Shilansky, asked Goren’s halachic opinion regarding members of the Knesset ascending the Mount, Goren replied that due to the danger that the Supreme Islamic Council and the
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Daniel A. Bell . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Vorgan , Yuval . 2010 . “ Complaints about Ethnic Discrimination in Admission to the Recognized Unofficial Educational Institutions .” [In Hebrew.] Jerusalem : Knesset Research and
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, who was recently elected a Likud member of Knesset, is a Jewish Temple Mount activist who justifies his demand that Jews be allowed to worship on Temple Mount on the basis of the general principles of freedom of worship and human rights ( HaLiBah 2016
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quit office were it to be adopted), he contributed nothing to its implementation. 29 The following statement by Sapir in the Knesset in March 1963 (after the program’s enactment) is illustrative: “[O]pening all products to a uniform tariff is totally
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historical record and secondary sources regarding the election campaigns to the various institutions that had a parliamentary nature—the Zionist Congress, the Assembly of Representatives, the Constituent Assembly, and the Knesset—and that operated in the
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Sprinzak wrote of the culture of ‘illegalism’ in Israel, focusing his attention particularly on West Bank settlers, but it was in 1953 that the Land Acquisition Law was passed by the Knesset, retroactively legalizing massive transfers of Arab land
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conservation plan for the valley. See Protocol no. 127 of the State Comptroller Committee of the Knesset, 16 November 2010. 8 Excerpt from the protocol of Meeting No. 107 of the National Parks and Nature Reserve Council, 2 January 2003. 9 From the minutes of
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preservation, and autonomy of the indigenous Bedouin population. In 2013, the Knesset passed the Prawer Plan, proposing to “‘regularize’ Bedouin settlement in the Negev,” offering “partial compensation for unresolved land ownership claims” ( McKee 2016: 183