CPI: New head of the International Relations Committee

Dr. Ofer Cassif is now substituted for Aida Touma-Sliman as the Head of the International Relations Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). Comrade Cassif is a member of the Political Bureau of CPI. He previously served as parliamentary assistant to the late comrade Meir Vilner, and was the first to be jailed for…

Hadash: Special approval for settlements transfers

MKs Dov Khenin and Mohammad Barakeh (Hadash) plans to introduce a law that would require special Knesset approval for any transfers of funds Israeli settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. The law would require such approval for any outlays made outside the official borders of the State of Israel – and since the West Bank…

Hadash: Special approval for settlements transfers

MKs Dov Khenin and Mohammad Barakeh (Hadash) plans to introduce a law that would require special Knesset approval for any transfers of funds Israeli settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. The law would require such approval for any outlays made outside the official borders of the State of Israel – and since the West Bank…

Israel bans 5 Gaza women from study in West Bank

Israel’s Defense Ministry said Thursday it would not allow five female students from Gaza to go to university in the West Bank, Israeli rights groups said. In May, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the ministry to reconsider its refusal to allow the students to travel to the West Bank, after Israel admitted there were no individual…

Court rules: No tent city in Tel-Aviv

In a blow to civil and social rights activists on Wednesday, the Tel Aviv District Court rejected a petition demanding rights to pitch a new protest tent city on Rothschild Boulevard. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and five social justice activists filed the petition three weeks ago, asking the court to force…

Knesset approves grants for battered women

The Knesset approved on Wednesday the final,  second and third readings of a bill authored by Hadash parliamentary fraction. The bill ensure that battered women who leave a shelter will receive an adjustment grant. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) said that “in most cases, a woman who is forced to stay in a shelter out of…