In Israel and abroad: Protests against Prawer Plan

This Saturday, November 30, Arab-Palestinians in Israel and Left activists will rally against plans for the ethnic cleansing of the Naqab/Negev, at Houra and Haifa in an internationally-observed “Day of Rage.” There are planned demonstrations across Israel and Palestine as well as in cities around the world, in a show of global solidarity against Israel’s…

MK Khenin: Biometric database will form a ‘Big Brother’

The biometric identification database could be dangerous and cause a loss of privacy, MKs complained in a Knesset Science and Technology Committee meeting Monday. The committee discussed how the trial period for the biometric database is progressing and whether the government is able to properly secure it. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) called the biometric database…