Dead Sea petition reaches 16,000 signatures

Ahead of the cabinet’s vote tomorrow (Sunday) about MK Dov Khenin’s (Hadash) comprehensive Dead Sea rehabilitation bill, activist groups are banding together to promote an online petition that aims to secure the salty body’s future. Launched about two weeks ago in a joint effort of global web activist group Avaaz, Adam Teva V’Din (Israel Union…

High Court rejects petition against ‘Nakba law’

The High Court of Justice dismissed on Thursday a petition contesting the so-called “Nakba law,” which enables the state to reduce public funding for institutions that commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The law, passed in March of last year, originally sought to criminalize the commemoration of the Nakba. Its latest version, called “Amendment 39…