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9/20/2023 10:56:07 PM
President Joe Biden raised “hard issues,” including protecting the “checks and balances” in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing Netanyahu to find a compromise on a planned judicial overhaul that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington.
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9/14/2023 11:31:53 AM
With attention focused on its contentious judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken unprecedented steps toward cementing Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank — perhaps permanently.
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9/12/2023 7:13:14 PM
Israel’s Supreme Court heard the first challenge Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put it on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
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9/6/2023 10:31:23 AM
President Joe Biden nominated former Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to be US ambassador to Israel, the White House announced late on Tuesday.
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7/25/2023 7:27:40 PM
Thousands of Israeli doctors walked out of work, labor leaders threatened a general strike and senior justices rushed home from a trip abroad Tuesday, a day after the government approved a law weakening the country's Supreme Court that critics say will erode the system of checks and balances.
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7/24/2023 2:30:23 PM
Israel's hard-right government was planning Monday to push through parliament a key element of its controversial judicial revamp.
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7/23/2023 11:07:41 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government's contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country.
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7/18/2023 6:53:58 PM
Israeli protesters blocked highways and train stations and gathered outside Tel Aviv's stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in a new countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned judicial overhaul.
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7/18/2023 2:39:32 PM
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is hosting Israel’s figurehead president Isaac Herzog at the White House, as they seek to sustain ties despite U.S. concerns over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plans to overhaul his country’s judicial system and ongoing settlement construction in the West Bank.
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7/11/2023 10:06:46 AM
Israel's parliament adopted in a first reading a controversial bill that would limit court powers, in a new offensive to push ahead with a judicial overhaul that has split the nation.
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7/9/2023 10:46:38 AM
Israel's anti-government protest movement gained new momentum on Saturday night as tens of thousands of people spilled into the streets of cities across the country to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious plan to overhaul the judicial system.
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6/29/2023 1:12:48 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had "thrown out" a key provision of his controversial judicial reform plan that has sparked one of the country's biggest ever protest movements.
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6/18/2023 1:50:31 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to advance the government's controversial judicial reforms, which have seen his premiership marred by mass protest against the proposed overhaul.
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6/14/2023 11:18:50 PM
Israeli opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz on Wednesday suspended their participation in talks with the government over its controversial judicial programme.
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6/10/2023 10:50:04 PM
Israelis continued protests Saturday for the 23rd week against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to overhaul the judiciary in the country.
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6/7/2023 12:02:09 PM
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday renewed calls for Israel to ensure independence of its judiciary, after major protests against changes pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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6/3/2023 10:29:23 PM
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered Saturday to protest judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, the most hard-line in Israel’s history.
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5/4/2023 11:10:29 AM
Israelis blocked roads and demonstrated on Thursday against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, hoping to ramp up pressure on lawmakers after parliament reconvened this week following a month-long recess.
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4/27/2023 10:50:39 PM
Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis who support a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judiciary flocked to Jerusalem on Thursday to rally for the proposal, which has prompted some of the biggest protests in Israel's history.
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4/2/2023 8:49:13 PM
Israel’s antisemitism envoy said Sunday that she was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, citing her criticism of its planned judicial overhaul as a possible cause.
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