Former faction chairman of the far-right Bayit Yehudi party, MK Yinon Magal, and the leader of the party, Education Minister Naphtali Bennett

MK Magal Resigns as Faction Chairman of Bayit Yehudi after Sexual Harassment Cases

Far-right Bayit Yehudi faction chairman MK Yinon Magal stepped down from his position Wednesday, following allegations that he sexually harassed journalists before entering politics. Magal made the sexual offenses to journalists for Walla News after he resigned from his position of editor-in-chief at the website last year. The journalist, Racheli Rottner, wrote a lengthy Facebook…

Demonstrators against gas deal, last Saturday, in Holon

Economic Affairs Committee Session Heats Up Over Gas Deal

A session of the Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee held to discuss implementation of the outline for the country’s long-disputed privatized natural gas degenerated into shouting matches several times on Sunday, November 22, as Knesset members across the political spectrum and social activists disrupted each other when speaking. The session, the first in a series of…

Light Rail and Railway Workers End Disputes

Following months of heated negotiations over salaries and working conditions, a collective agreement was signed Thursday, November 19, between CityPass and the Histadrut Labor Federation representing Jerusalem’s light rail workers. The agreement – which will raise the salaries of most tram operators by 21.5 percent, to NIS 44 an hour through 2019 – comes one…