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Nation State Law
Protest against the Nation State Law, July 2018. Photo credit: Standing Together
July 15, 2021, 10:28 pm
OPINION: What was the Nation State Law really about?
Following a Supreme Court decision this week upholding Israel's controversial 2018 legislation, Anna Roiser looks at what's behind the ruling
By Anna Roiser
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 4, 2018. Photo by: JINIPIX
March 11, 2019, 11:28 am
Netanyahu criticised by Rivlin for saying Israel ‘not a country of all citizens’
Israeli prime minister in spat with TV personality Rotem Sela, where he says 'Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people — and not anyone else'
By JTA
President Isaac Herzog
October 18, 2018, 1:03 pm
Jewish News meets… Isaac Herzog: ‘I’ll bridge the diaspora divide’
New Jewish Agency chair reflects on his new role and the legacy of his father Chaim, amid a turbulent time for Israel-diaspora relations
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Dr. Sheila Gewolb
September 28, 2018, 1:50 pm
No-confidence bid against Board VP for criticising Nation State Law
Efforts underway to gather signatures against Sheila Gewolb, following her remarks about Israel's legislation passed over the summer
Benjamin Netanyahu
August 28, 2018, 11:30 am
Israeli-Arab politicians ask UN to condemn nation-state law
Palestinian Authority officials join members of the Knesset in calling for the United Nations to berate the Jewish state's controversial law
By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses AIPAC 2018
August 14, 2018, 11:42 am
Israeli leaders accused of ‘sowing division’ with Nation State law by WJC head
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder criticised leaders for provoking a 'summer of disharmony' in the diaspora
Benjamin Netanyahu
August 12, 2018, 9:16 pm
Netanyahu defends Nation State Law despite Arab-Jewish protests
Israeli prime minister says Palestinian flags flying at the Tel Aviv protest this week was 'conclusive evidence' of the need for the law
Benjamin Netanyahu
August 8, 2018, 4:02 pm
Netanyahu adviser: Critics of nation-state law ‘mistaken and misinformed’
Aide to the PM Sara Greenberg write opinion piece attacking those who've spoken out against the controversial piece of legislation
By JTA
Benjamin Netanyahu
August 5, 2018, 12:36 pm
Benjamin Netanyahu stands firm on controversial Nation-State Law
Prime Minister says law is not meant to harm and will "guarantee for future generations that Israel will be the nation-state of the Jews"
By Jewish News Reporter
Israelis from the Druze community participate in a rally against Israel's Jewish Nation Bill in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Photo by: Tomer Neuberg-JINIPIX
August 5, 2018, 11:50 am
Tens of thousands attend Druze-led protest against Nation-State Law
More than 50,000 people estimated to have gathered at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night to demonstrate against the controversial legislation
By Jewish News Reporter
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in the Israeli Knesset
July 20, 2018, 11:43 am
Israel’s Nation State bill criticised by Board of Deputies as ‘regressive’
British Jewry's representative body issues 'concern' that the law may 'lead to doing down others', in unusual intervention into Israeli politics
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in the Knesset. (Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL via JINIPIX)
July 19, 2018, 4:17 pm
OPINION: Nation State Law challenges Israel’s status as Jewish and democratic
Adam Ognall of the New Israel Fund UK reflects on the Jewish state's controversial new legislation, which may marginalise minorities
By Adam Ognall
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