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Israel: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief
Israel: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief Updated January 27, 2021 Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov R44245 SUMMARY R44245 Israel: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief January 27, 2021 The following matters are of particular significance to U.S.-Israel relations. Jim Zanotti Domestic issues: March 2021 election. After the collapse of its power-sharing Specialist in Middle government in December 2020, Israel is scheduled to hold another election for its Eastern Affairs Knesset (parliament) on March 23, 2021. The election will be Israel’s fourth in the past two years—a frequency without parallel in the country’s history. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has managed to maintain power despite an ongoing criminal trial on corruption charges that is set to resume in February 2021. Netanyahu apparently hopes to create a coalition government that will grant him legal immunity or to remain indefinitely as caretaker prime minister (as he did from December 2018 to May 2020) by preventing anyone from forming a coalition without him and his Likud party. Palestinians and Arab state normalization. On the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump Administration policies largely sided with Israeli positions, thus alienating Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. In the second half of 2020, the Administration pivoted from its January 2020 Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal to helping Israel reach agreements—known as the Abraham Accords—on normalizing its relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. In connection with its deal with the UAE, Israel agreed in August 2020 to suspend plans to annex part of the West Bank, though announcements related to settlement activity have accelerated since then. -
Israeli Election Bulletin | January 15
Israeli Election Bulletin | January 15 On 23 December 2020 the Knesset was automatically dissolved after the national unity government failed to pass a 2020 state budget. The election will be held on 23 March 2021. For more background on the collapse of the coalition, watch BICOM Director Richard Pater and read this BICOM Morning Brief. BICOM's Poll of Polls Aggregate Polling January 5-15 Many parties such as Momentum, Labour, Veterans, New Economy and Telem are polling under the electoral threshold Two others, Blue and White and Religious Zionism, are polling very close to the threshold (4 seats). If either of them were to fall under it, it would signicantly aect the ability of Netanyahu or his opponents to form a coalition 1/11 Splits, Mergers and Acquisitions We are now in the rst stage of the election process. Over the coming three weeks, politicians will start jockeying for their places ahead of the formation of the party lists that need to be submitted by 4 February. Party size and where they stand on major political issues Political Cartoons Maariv 23.12.20 Santa delvers ballot boxes and 21.12.20 Yediot Ahronot The new mutation. A two headed Gideon Saar and Naftali Bennett chase Gantz and Netanyahu Israel Hayom 24.12.20 “The clothes have no emperor,” the briefcase says Blue and White, looking on former number 2 and 3 in the party. Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn who quit shortly after the government fell to join the Ron Huldai’s the Israelis Party and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi who will see out his role but not stand in the coming election. -
POOL WATER: Cause Behind Sudden Color Change Still Unknown
Page 2B East Oregonian SPORTS Wednesday, August 10, 2016 Olympics Phelps swims to two more golds, Ledecky adds one By GENARO C. ARMAS Williams shanked shots all Host country Brazil Associated Press over the court in getting played to a 0-0 draw with upset by Elina Svitolina of South Africa. The Brazilians RIO DE JANEIRO — Ukraine. The top-ranked had already secured a spot Good old Michael Phelps, American won’t get a chance in the women’s soccer quar- golden again. to defend the gold she won in terinals before their match. For teenagers Katie London. Williams looked out The team and star Marta Ledecky and Simone Biles, of sorts and irritated, accu- have drawn more attention their star turns in the Summer mulating 37 unforced errors. while Brazil’s men have Olympics might be just She had ive double-faults in struggled at the Olympics. beginning. one game alone in the 6-4, The women’s team will face From the pool to the 6-3 loss to the 20th-ranked Australia in a quarterinal gymnastics loor, Team USA Svitolina. Williams wiped match on Friday. had nice day at the Rio de her forehead, picked up RUGBY STUNNER : Janeiro Games. her rackets and headed Sonny Bill Williams was Not all the American back quickly to the locker helped off with an ankle stars were winners Tuesday, room. Svitolina, who had injury during New Zealand’s though. Serena Williams lost never before played in an shocking 14-12 loss to on the tennis court and the Olympics, smiled and stuck Japan in its irst game of U.S. -
Strateg Ic a Ssessmen T
Strategic Assessment Assessment Strategic Volume 22 | No. 1 | April 2019 Volume 22 Volume The Role of the Court in Reaching Judicial Decisions that Concern the State of Israel’s National Security Esther Hayut Iran’s Missile System: The Principal Means of Deterrence | No. 1 No. Ephraim Kam Bashar al-Assad and Israel: Back to the Past? | Eyal Zisser April 2019 Achievements According to the BDS Movement: Trends and Implications Amir Prager A Decade of Close Greece-Israel Relations: An Assessment Gallia Lindenstrauss and Polykarpos Gavrielides Bringing China to Punish Nuclear Proliferators Taehwa Hong Afghanistan: A New American Strategy? Or Yissachar Global Trends, Local Challenges, and What Lies Between Yahel Arnon, Ron Deutch, and Yoel Guzansky Strategic ASSESSMENT Volume 22 | No. 1 | April 2019 The Role of the Court in Reaching Judicial Decisions that Concern the State of Israel’s National Security | 3 Esther Hayut Iran’s Missile System: The Principal Means of Deterrence | 15 Ephraim Kam Bashar al-Assad and Israel: Back to the Past? | 29 Eyal Zisser Achievements According to the BDS Movement: Trends and Implications | 39 Amir Prager A Decade of Close Greece-Israel Relations: An Assessment | 51 Gallia Lindenstrauss and Polykarpos Gavrielides Bringing China to Punish Nuclear Proliferators | 63 Taehwa Hong Afghanistan: A New American Strategy? | 75 Or Yissachar Global Trends, Local Challenges, and What Lies Between | 87 Yahel Arnon, Ron Deutch, and Yoel Guzansky Strategic ASSESSMENT The purpose of Strategic Assessment is to stimulate and enrich the public debate on issues that are, or should be, on Israel’s national security agenda. Strategic Assessment is a quarterly publication comprising policy- oriented articles written by INSS researchers and guest contributors. -
China Win Women's 10M Synchro Diving
Duffy earns Bermuda’s 1st gold Bermuda has been sending athletes to the the smallest contingent Bermuda has ever Olympics since 1936. Until Tuesday, the At- sent to the Summer Games. lantic island’s highest honor was a bronze Bermuda hadn’t medaled at the Olympics Gold medalist Flora Duffy medal won 45 years ago. since Clarence Hill’s bronze in heavyweight of Bermuda celebrates Flora Duffy changed that in just under boxing in Montreal in 1976. after winning the women’s two hours, swimming, cycling and running Duffy, 33, had never fi nished higher than individual triathlon compe- tition at the 2020 Summer through the wind and rain around Tokyo eighth in her previous three Olympic tries. Olympics, on July 27, in Bay to win the Olympic women’s triathlon But the two-time former world triathlon se- Tokyo, Japan. (AP) for Bermuda’s fi rst gold medal. ries champion was one of the favorites for A self-governing British overseas territory gold and was among the leaders Tuesday with a population under 65,000, Bermuda for the entire race. She closed out the vic- has only two athletes competing in Tokyo: tory with a dominant fi nal leg to fi nish in 1 Duffy and men’s rower Dara Alizadeh. It is hour, 55:36 minutes. (AP) ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021 Page 15 China win women’s 10m synchro diving Olympic Medalists Argentina advance BASEBALL/SOFTBALL Fiji & Britain GOLD: Japan (Yukiyo Mine, Saki Yamaza- ki, Yuka Ichiguchi, Yu Yamamoto, Nodoka Harada, Sayaka Mori, Hitomi Kawabata, Eri Yamada, Mana Atsumi, Minori Naito, Yamato reach semis Fujita, Yukiko -
“Schlaglicht Israel”!
Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 2/19 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 16.-31. Januar Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Israels Luftwaffe greift Ziele in Syrien an ...................................................................................................................... 1 2. Senkrechtstart für Benny Gantz ..................................................................................................................................... 4 3. Nasrallahs Drohungen .................................................................................................................................................... 6 4. Medienquerschnitt ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 1. Israels Luftwaffe greift Ziele in Syrien an mutungen des Sicherheitsapparates nach sind die Der erneute Schlagabtausch zwischen Israel und schiitischen Libanesen im Besitz von mindestens den in Syrien stationierten iranischen Revolutions- 100.000 Raketen, die jeden Winkel Israels erreichen garden deutet auf eine Verschärfung des Konflikts. können. Der Kommandant der iranischen Luftwaffe Aziz Nasirzadeh kündigte an, dass Iran bereit sei für den Balancing act Entscheidungskrieg, „der den Angriffen der israeli- (…) Bashar Assad’s fragile state is the playground of schen Armee auf Syrien ein Ende machen wird“. Iranian forces (…). The key to preventing a further Teheran warte auf den Tag, “an dem wir das Ende escalation seems to be impressing on Vladimir -
The Image of the Amish in the New York Times Versus the Image of the Haredim in Haaretz
conflict & communication online, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2014 www.cco.regener-online.de ISSN 1618-0747 Benyamin Neuberger & Keren-Miriam Tamam The image of the Amish in the New York Times versus the image of the Haredim1 in Haaretz (1980-2010)2 Kurzfassung: Der vorliegende Aufsatz vergleicht die Presseberichterstattung über die Beziehung zweier ultra-religiöser Gruppen, der Amish-Gemeinde in den USA und der Haredi-Gemeinde in Israel, zu ihren jeweiligen Staaten. Obwohl die Amish in Israel mitunter als "ame- rikanische Haredim" bezeichnet werden, gibt es bedeutende Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Gruppen und ihrer Darstellung in den Me- dien. Nichtsdestotrotz gibt es aber auch hinreichend viele Ähnlichkeiten, um einen Vergleich zu rechtfertigen. Im Wesentlichen spiegeln die Unterschiede der Berichterstattung über die beiden Gruppen in der New York Times und in Haaretz die grundlegenden Unterschiede ihrer Stellung in ihrer jeweiligen Gesellschaft und ihrer Haltung gegenüber dem Staat wider. Während die Amish die USA als "land of freedom" akzeptieren, betrachten die Haredim Israel nicht als einen wirklich jüdischen Staat. Während sich der Dialog zwischen den Amish und ihrem Staat um bürgerliche Freiheiten und Rechtsgrundsätze dreht, leitet sich die Auseinandersetzung mit den Haredim von einer abweichenden Wahrnehmung des Charakters des israelischen Staates her. Die Haltung der Haredim gegenüber der Mehrheitsgesellschaft und dem Staat ist in großem Maße konflikthaltig und damit meilenweit entfernt von der Einstellung der Gelas- senheit, die für die Amish charakteristisch ist. Abstract: This article compares the newspaper coverage of the relationship of two ultra-religious groups, the Amish community in the USA and the Haredi community in Israel, with their respective states. -
Israel Elections 2019 Update
Israel Elections 2019 Update September 10, 2019 With no party succeeding in forming a government following the elections that took place in Israel in April, 2019, a brand new election will now take place next week, on September 17. JFNA is pleased to present the following backgrounder summarizing what has occurred, and what may happen in the coming weeks and months. JFNA has also prepared a background briefing on why a second round of elections are taking place – which can be seen here, as well as a paper on how Israeli elections work. Elections: Round Two Perhaps the most crucial take away from the backgrounder papers (linked above) is that in practice, Israeli elections have two “stages.” The first - the actual elections - occurs when the population elects the 120-members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Those are the national elections, but once the results of these elections are known, we don’t always have a clear picture of who will lead the country. This only occurs during what we can call a “second stage” when a potential prime minister seeks to form a governing majority coalition of at least 61, from among those 120 newly elected MKs (represented through their parties). September 2019’s theme: Mergers In the months that have passed since second elections were called, there has been little, if any, debate about policy or major issues of substance; or even discussions about personality. Instead, the focus has been on tactics, strategy and coalition building. So, in many ways, the September 2019 look like a redo of the elections that took place in April. -
Creating the Jewish State: Projects of (In)Security and the Disjuncture to Price-Tag Violence
(Re)Creating the Jewish State: Projects of (In)Security and the Disjuncture to Price-Tag Violence Nicola S. Mathie Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University This thesis is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations November 2018 Declaration This thesis is the result of my own work and includes nothing, which is the outcome of the work done in collaboration except where specifically indicated in the text. It has not been previously submitted, in part or whole, to any university or institution for any degree, diploma, or other qualification. Signed: Nicola S. Mathie Research Award This thesis is the outcome of Research Award Grant Number 1225917 from The Economic and Social Research Council. My appreciation will always be with The Economic and Social Research Council for funding this PhD. Abstract Jewish-Israeli settlements built over the State of Israel’s internationally-recognised territorial borders are sites of contestation. The focus of this thesis is upon conflicts and contestations which have developed between the State of Israel and some of its own subjects, Jewish settlers, over the evacuation of settlement-communities and structures, and other perceived threats to settlement. From 2008, a new form of violence has been enacted by individuals in the settler community. Self-declared as Price-Tag violence, the attacks take different forms. These include vandalising Palestinian properties and spraying provocative graffiti, and throwing Molotov cocktails at properties. Whilst the attacks are predominantly perpetrated upon Palestinian targets, the attacks are directed at the State of Israel. Price-Tag attacks have also occurred directly on Israeli targets, such as Israeli military vehicles. -
Contributor Biographies
155 Contributor Biographies Rabbi Rachel Adler, PhD, is the Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She was one of the first to bring feminist perspectives to bear on Jewish texts and law. Her book Engendering Judaism (1998) is the first by a female theologian to win a National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. Hadeel Azzam-Jalajel, who was raised in Nazareth, was at the time of writing this essay co-director of the Racism Crisis Center and a lawyer with a private legal practice. She is a grad- uate of the Law School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She interned at the civil rights organization Hamoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual, and since passing the bar in March of 2014, she has focused on administrative and constitu- tional law. Hadeel is a social and political activist, and a member of the leadership of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together, which works to promote peace, equality, and social justice. She also works as a content manager in both Hebrew and Arabic for the movement. Ruth Calderon, PhD, is a former member of the Israeli Knesset, former vice-speaker of the Knesset of the opposition party Yesh Atid, a Jewish educator, and Talmud scholar. In 1989, she founded Beit Midrash ELUL and, in 1996, the secular Beit Midrash for He- brew Culture, ALMA. She served as the head of the Division for Culture and Education of the Israeli National Library and on the faculty of the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership, where she also belonged to the first cohort of students to finish the program. -
Masks and Merriment
INSIDE Subscribe today! [email protected] Quick Look 5 Arts & Culture Motivated by 6-7 Dallas Doings 8 Around the Town Medicine 10-12 Youth Akiba Yavneh teens 13 Jewish Foodie create kids’ books, pp.10-11 14-15 Post Pics 16-17 Columnists 19 Obituaries Thursday, March 4, 2021 • 20 Adar 5781 • VOLUME 75 NO. 9 • tjpnews.com $1.00 Masks and Merriment With safety in mind, North Texas brings on the Purim joy, pp.14-15 Photo: Julie Carpenter/Shearith Israel The cast of Shearith Israel’s Purim shpiel, “Schmutz,” from left, Rabbi Shira Wallach, Rabbi Ari Sunshine, Shirley Davidoff , Mark Fleschler, Avi Mitzner, Hazzan Itzhak Zhrebker; front row: Irving Prengler, Rabbi Adam Roff man Light Shabbat candles: TYCHER LIBRARY SPRING READ 6:09 p.m. Friday, Mar. 5 Jan Eliasberg’s ‘Hannah’s War,’ March 21, other BookFest events, p.4 Shabbat ends: 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 6 2 | March 4, 2021 Israeli Supreme Court’s new conversion ruling in Israel State must grant such as Conservative or Reform will cause arguing and a diffi cult citizenship to Jews, however, still often face rupture among the people.” non-Orthodox hurdles in obtaining Israeli Successive government Jewish converts citizenship and are sometimes coalitions, based on their political denied. leanings, have attempted to By Ben Sales Monday’s decision extends the either liberalize or narrow (JTA) — Israel must grant right to citizenship to those who Israel’s conversion standards. citizenship to Jews who converted converted to Judaism under non- But such efforts at reform usually to Judaism in Israel under non- Orthodox auspices in Israel itself. -
ONOC 2019 Annual Report (OSFO Section)
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS Organisation of Sports Judo Federations of Oceania Rugby Union Archery Sailing Athletics Softball Badminton Squash Baseball Swimming Basketball Table Tennis Canoeing Taekwondo Cycling Tennis Fencing Touch Gymnastics Volleyball Handball Hockey 206 OCEANIA NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES 2019 ANNUAL REPORT Organisation of Sports Federations of Oceania (OSFO) OSFO PRESIDENT’S REPORT • Collaboration at formulating strategic plans School. Oceania Rugby has also purchased At last year’s within the region journals and we hope that more sports will Assembly, the • Promotion of sports activities in the region implement the journal in the coming year. We members took with the development of the OSFO website acknowledge the ongoing valuable contribution the decision to • Promotion of mentoring of athletes, by Edwina Ricci in the rollout and look forward increase the administrators, and coaches to increased promotion and expansion of this membership of • More active promotion of the Positive Edge initiative during 2020. the Executive Journal Board by voting • A joint effort in additional funding for Oceania In an endeavour to stimulate a broader for Constitutional change. The appointments Sports Federations, in collaboration with understanding of the value of OSFO’s work, we of Ryan Pini, as Athlete’s Representative and ASOIF took the opportunity at the successful Pacific Christian Holtz to replace Michael Brown, who • Collaboration with Pacific Games Council Games in Samoa last July to have Yvonne had relocated to Asia for a new role with the Mullens and Ryan Pini host a function and ITTF, were ratified, each with a term of four The Executive Board believes that the OSFO has address the Pacific Games Council on these years.