Knesset Approves Law Mandating Execution of Palestinian Detainees

The Israeli Knesset approved on Monday evening a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian detainees convicted of killings classified…

The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation ordering the immediate cutoff of electricity and water to offices and properties used by…

The Israeli Knesset has advanced two bills authorizing the death penalty for Palestinian detainees accused of killing Israeli citizens under…

On Wednesday the Israeli Knesset approved one bill to annex the West Bank and impose Israeli sovereignty over it, and…

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of bills that ban the activities of…

A Report by Rami Samara – Translated From WAFA News: The Israeli Knesset is expected to vote within hours on…

TEL AVIV,  Thursday, July 25, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli Knesset General Assembly approved on Thursday the Israeli government’s decision…

TEL AVIV, Thursday, February 15, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, today passed a bill in its preliminary…

Ben Gvir, far-right Israeli parliament member and follower of Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane was caught on video waving a gun…

(photo: Oranit settlement near Qalqilya, northern occupied West Bank) The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements stated, in…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens to Avichai Mandelblit (R) during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem November 16, 2014.…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): On Wednesday, 19 December 2018, the Israeli Knesset approved the first preliminary reading…

The Israeli Knesset approved, Monday, the construction of residential units for colonialist settlers, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa…

Heavily armed Israeli forces escorted an Israeli Knesset member, Shuli Mualem, as she entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the…

The Israeli government has declared that “the Knesset [is permitted] to legislate laws everywhere in the world” and that it…

The Israeli Knesset approved, on Monday night, the “Breaking The Silence” bill, granting the Minister of Education the power to…

The Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee approved a bill, on Wednesday, to deduct funds transferred to the Palestinian…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, on Wednesday, said that the Israeli Knesset bill limiting Palestinian access to Israel’s…

The Ethics Committee of the Israeli parliament of the Knesset decided to exclude Arab MK Haneen Zoabi from the Knesset…

The Israeli Knesset intends to vote on Wednesday, 03 January 2018, to amend the Penal Code in order to legalize…

On Monday, 25 December 2017, a group of extremists led by Oren Hazan, Member of Israeli Knesset of the Right-Wing…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tasked Head of the Israeli Knesset, David Amsalem, to promote the nationality bill, which…

View of Jerusalem’s Old City district,  seen on April 14, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex/File) A bill claiming to be about stopping…

Israeli news site Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) has published a report on housing unit construction plans made by the West Bank Israeli…

The Israeli Knesset approved, on Wednesday, a preliminary reading of bill that considers Israel to be a “Jewish” state and…

A revised version of the controversial ‘Muezzin Bill’, which imposes further restrictions on the Muslim call to prayer, traditionally known…

The Israeli Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation, Sunday, gave approval for a new draft of the muezzin bill prohibiting mosques…

PCHR Strongly Condemns Israeli Knesset’s Approval of “Regulation Bill” and Calls upon International Community to Stop Immediately Treating Israel as…

The Israeli parliament of the Knesset is expected to pass a bill legalizing settlements built on private Palestinian private lands, in…

Hundreds of Palestinians respond to house demolitions, extrajudicial executions, and the confiscation of Palestinian corpuses with peaceful protest. On Monday,…

The Israeli Central Court released, Tuesday, Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Bassel Ghattas, after ordering him under strictly-monitored house arrest…

Special session of the Knesset to vote Thursday over whether to strip Basel Ghattas of parliamentary immunity. Member of Knesset…

The Local Committee for Planning and Building for the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem approved, on Wednesday evening, a plan to…

A bill to retroactively legalize Israeli settlements advances in the Knesset. Israeli defense minister begs: wait for Donald Trump presidency.…

A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday,  for…

The Israeli parliament of the Knesset rebuked Palestinian MK Hanin Zoabi  over her remarks about Israeli soldiers who participated in the…

The Israeli parliament of the Knesset has approved a controversial law forcing NGOs to declare the funds they receive from…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday, spoke with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit regarding the possible expulsion of Arab MK…

The Israeli Parliament of the Knesset voted, on Monday evening, to re-extend Israel’s “Citizenship and Entry into Israel” provision, which…

The Israeli Knesset approved the suspension of lawmakers accused of backing ‘terrorism’, a bill which seems to target Arab MPs,…

On February 8th, the Knesset Ethics Committee suspended three Joint List Members of Knesset (MK) for several months. The committee…

New photos recently emerged, and were also published by Israeli TV Channel 2, of Israeli soldiers — mostly masked —…

The Israeli Knesset approved, by second and third reading, minimum prison terms for stone-throwing attacks against vehicles or pedestrians.In a…

Israel Legalizes Torture against Palestinian Prisoners; On Thursday, 30 July 2015, the Israeli Knesset passed in the second and third…

Israeli Knesset passed, on Monday evening, a bill allowing Palestinian youth caught throwing stones to be held up to 20…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Sunday, gave instructions to his ministers to vote against the bill which allows execution of…

The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) announced that on Sunday July 12th, they will bring back a bill to forcibly remove 40,000…

Israeli politicians have voted to continue work on a bill to allow hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners to be force-fed. Those who…

The Knesset is currently holding a ‘heated debate’ on whether or not to rescind the diplomatic immunity of MK Basel…

Israeli Knesset is expected to vote on Monday, the 12th of December, 2014, on dissolving itself and officially setting March…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his current government became incapable of running the country’s affairs, and that he intends…

The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee recently approved an additional 20 million NIS (roughly $5.2 million) for funding security in settlements…

Israeli Member of Knesset (MK) Miri Regev of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu called for firing Arab (MK) Dr.…

Prominent Knesset members propose curbing the powers of Israel’s High Court following Monday’s ruling that upended official policy concerning asylum…

The Israeli Parliament of the Knesset passed, on Monday, a bill which prohibits the grant of pardon or the ease…

The Israeli Knesset has postponed voting on a bill facilitating the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners, in its second and third…

Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Masoud Ghanim, has proposed a no-confidence motion against the Israeli government. Concerned about the…

A new draft bill initiated by the Jewish Home and Likud Beitenu members of the Knesset aims to define non-governmental…

The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit expressed ‘grave concern’ about a law recently passed by…

It is expected that the Israeli Knesset will approve, on Wednesday, the extension of a law which prohibits Palestinian families…

Israeli opposition parties in the Knesset announced, Sunday, that they will not be taking part in discussions and will vote…

Israeli Knesset passed, on Wednesday, in its first reading, a bill to deprive Palestinian prisoners from 1948 territories of national…

[December 16, 2013] The Prawer Plan may not be shelved after all, reports +972. Just four days after the co-author…

Head of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that settlement construction in Jerusalem…

Israel has officially started its new season for the 12th Knesset elections after 100 Members of Knesset (MK), out of…

Palestinian citizen of Israel Haneen Zoabi, who was elected to the Israeli Knesset in 2009, will embark on a speaking…

A group of hackers calling themselves “Pirates Of Gaza, the Winds of Victory”, managed Thursday to hack the official webpage…

The Palestinian News Network has reported that the Finance Committee of the Knesset approved on Tuesday the allocation of NIS…

The Palestinian News Network reported that the Knesset will be discussing today the agreement of the Kadima opposition party to…

The so-called “Ethics Committee” of the Israeli Knesset decided to remove member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Ahmad Tibi, from participating…

Reuven Rivlin, head of the Israeli Knesset said on Wednesday that all ‘the land of Israel’ belongs to the Jewish…

A report to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee indicates that intelligence officials do not expect Palestinian violence in…

A new law currently under consideration by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) recognizes the inherent contradiction in Israel’s self-definition as both…

The Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Israeli Knesset stated that the Palestinian UN bid to seek international recognition…

On Wednesday, The Israeli Knesset approved in Preliminary Reading a law that allows “nonprofit” and nongovernmental fundamentalist Israeli settler groups,…

Palestinian-Israeli Member of the Knesset (Parliament) Hanin Zoabi has been stripped of her rights as a Parliamentarian, and will be…

Just one day after the controversial Boycott Bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset the Yisrael Beiteinu faction has announced…

The Israeli Knesset is Monday set to vote on a bill that will make illegal the boycott of Israeli goods,…

The decentralised hacker group ‘Anonomous’ have declared the next target of their Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDOS) to be…

The Knesset will vote on Wednesday on a proposal initiated by Yisrael Beiteinu to establish a committee of inquiry into…

The Israeli Knesset approved its 2011-2012 budget on Wednesday, which includes two billion shekels (approx. US$ 564 million) to settlements…

Several Israeli Knesset members have demanded the assassination of the ex-Arab MK Bishara after listing him as ‘terrorist’, Quds Press…

The Legal Committee of the Israeli Knesset decided on Monday to approve a new draft submitted by the Israeli Interior…

With a majority of 65 votes in favor and 33 opposing, the Israeli Knesset passed the Referendum Bill in the…

Salem Abu Mdeighim, field researcher of the Adalah center, stated that a large Israeli police force attacked on Wednesday the…

The Israeli Knesset held a vote that led to revoking the parliamentary privileges of Arab Member of Knesset, Hanin Zoabi,…

25 fundamentalist members of Israeli Knesset submitted a bill proposing that the Knesset transfer money allocated to the Palestinian Authority…

The Israeli Knesset house committee decided to revoke three key parliamentarian privileges of MK Zo’by for being part of the…

Three Israeli Knesset members of the National Union fundamentalist party stated that they intend to tour the yards of the…

The Israeli Knesset debated and passed a new bill on Monday evening to ensure compensations are paid to Jews who…

In the first ever Knesset address by a British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown on Monday hailed Israel’s successes in the…

En la primera alocución que nunca hubiera dirigido un Primer Ministro Británico al Knesset, Gordon Brown felicitó el lunes los…

Talab Al Sane’, miembro Árabe del Knesset (Parlamento) Israelí, y presidente del Bloque Árabe Unido, presentó al Knesset, el caso…

On Monday evening the Israeli Knesset approved by preliminary reading a new law barring any withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian…

El lunes por la noche el Knesset o Parlamento israelí aprobó la lectura preliminar de una nueva ley que impedirá…

Los miembros árabes del Knesset israelí, Wasel Taha y Jamal Zahalka, rechazaron la declaración de la Ministra de Asuntos Exteriores,…

El miembro Árabe del Knesset (Parlamento Israelí), Mohammad Baraka, mandó el miércoles una carta el Ministro de Seguridad Interna Israelí,…

After the US President, George W. Bush, gave a speech at the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, several right wing members…

Después de que el Presidente de los EE.UU, George W. Bush, pronunciase un discurso en el Knesset israelí el jueves,…

On Friday, Member of Knesset Avigdor Lieberman, a leader in the extremist Yisrael Beiteinu party, stated that Arab members of…