Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women meeting about segregated maternity wards in hospitals

Joint List MKs Call on Health Ministry to Enforce Laws against Hospital Discrimination

“The law comes before patients’ preferences,” Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women chairperson MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) said in a meeting about segregated maternity wards in hospitals. The meeting was called after Israel Radio reported last week that several hospitals acquiesce to mothers’ requests that they not be…

MK Herzog and PM Netanyahu

Communist Weekly: Herzog “Playing into Netanyahu’s Hands”

Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog met on Friday, January 22, at the Elysée Palace with French President François Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, presenting his new diplomatic plan for Israel’s separation from Palestinian villages surrounding Jerusalem. The meeting in Paris took place on the backdrop of a French Foreign Ministry statement released on…

Joint List MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), right, shared a photo on Facebook of the lawmakers removed from the session, which included all the members present from Kulanu, the Zionist Union, Meretz, and the Joint List.

Ten MKs Booted Out of Knesset Meeting with Fascist Leader

Ten opposition lawmakers were ejected from a raucous Knesset committee meeting on Tuesday morning, November 10, after they protested the presence of the leader of the fascist Lehava group at the session. Bentzi Gopstein, who dubbed the lawmakers “terrorists” and “traitors,” was not asked to leave. The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee was meeting to discuss…