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The left-wing Labor and the center-left Yesh Atid parties are mulling mass resignations from the Knesset to protest passage of the government’s judicial reform plan, and in the hopes of disrupting the completion of the legislative process. Rumors circulated Monday evening, following the Knesset vote backing two key measures of the judicial reform plan, that the Yesh Atid party is currently considering terminating its own representation in the Knesset via a mass resignation. MK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) confirmed that the party is indeed weighing such an option. Speaking with Galei Tzahal Tuesday morning, Stern said Yesh Atid is considering...

Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was caught on a hot mic disclosing the real reason for imposing “green pass,” a Covid-19 vaccine passport, for certain venues.Ahead of a weekly Cabinet meeting, Horowitz turned to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked noting that " there is no medical or epidemiological justification for the Covid passport [green pass], it is only intended to pressure the unvaccinated to vaccinate." He was unaware Channel 12 News was recording behind him.Currently, he said, “there is a kind of universality to the ‘green pass’ system, other than at malls, where I think it should be imposed, [because] now...

Dec. 13, 2004 21:56 | Updated Dec. 13, 2004 22:32 Sgt. Sayid Jaja laid to rest in 'Arara By DANIEL BEN-TAL The first family in 'Arara whose sons serve in the IDF buried their youngest boy in a brief, somber military funeral in this Muslim village in central Israel Monday. Fewer than 200 men attended the funeral of Sgt. Sayid Jaja, 19, one of five soldiers from the Beduin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion killed in Sunday evening's attack on an IDF post in the southern Gaza Strip. Local restaurant owner Younis Wal, whose wife is related to the Jaja family, explained...