TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Lawmakers voted in a marathon session on Monday and Tuesday to both freeze the arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders and to enshrine Jewish religious studies as a “foundational value” of the state.
Just three months after the end of the legislature, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu changes Israel to a legislative coup. During this parliamentary week, the last before the summer recess and the elections scheduled for 27 October, the Knesset has passed a set of new very controversial laws. On Wednesday Israeli deputies have supported legislation that allows limiting the powers of the figure of the Attorney General. …