More detainees held longer without seeing judge

Israel’s Shin Bet security service made in 2012, more use of a temporary order extending the time security suspects may be detained before being brought before a judge. According to a recent Shin Bet report submitted to Knesset, last year detention hearings were delayed for 10 detainees in all. Of these, two were held for…

Thousands demonstrated in Nazareth to celebrate May Day

Thousands participated in the worker’s solidarity march in Nazareth on Saturday (April 27) and called for social justice, peace, and equality. Members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Hadash activists participated in the rally, among them Knesset members Dov Khenin, Mohammed Barakeh, Hannah Sweid, and Afu Agbaria. Hadash chairman MK Mohammed Barakeh said…

60 MKs demand to block gas exports

At an emergency session of the Knesset’s Social-Environment Lobby on Wednesday, some 60 MKs signed a letter demanding that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bring the issue of determining gas export allocations to the legislature. “The decision on the issue of exporting the gas from reservoirs discovered near Israel’s coasts bears far-reaching economic, social and environmental…

New Yesh Din report: The road to dispossession

Some 100 outposts – illegal Jewish settlement points in the West Bank – have been built to date. In a new Yesh Din report, the settlement of Adei Ad serves as a test case illustrating how the foundation and establishment of an outpost leads the farmers in the nearby villages to lose their ability to…

Air carriers strike: police and demonstrators clash at protest

Hundreds of employees from Israel’s three airlines demonstrated outside the government compound in Jerusalem on Sunday during the weekly cabinet meeting, to protest ministers’ plans to approve a neo-liberal Open Skies agreement. Police arrested eight workers and held some more for questioning, out of the hundreds of airlines employees demonstrating in Jerusalem. The Cabinet approved…