Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu is to push ahead with the judicial reforms that have plunged Israel into one of its most severe internal crises. His declaration comes after 80,000 people protested in Tel Aviv over the proposed changes.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed a delay to his far-right government’s proposals to overhaul the judiciary following 12 weeks of political crisis. He announced yesterday that he would postpone his plans which critics have said would destroy the independence of the judici

The International Bar Association (IBA) has called on the Israeli government to abandon controversial judicial reforms which would undermine the rule of law and "place Israel outside of the boundaries of modern democracies". Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce today tha

The Israeli government is facing escalating opposition to its controversial judicial reforms, with thousands of people taking into the streets in protest and the country's elite fighter jet pilots joining a strike demanding the proposals are withdrawn. The bill currently being considered by the Knes

Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, human rights organisation Amnesty International has said for the first time – joining the ranks of a growing number of Palestinian, Israeli and international NGOs. A new 211-page report titled Israel’s Apartheid against Pa

Draft legislation to ban Israeli goods from the occupied Palestinian territories in Ireland will be "impractical" to enforce, Attorney General Séamus Woulfe SC has said. The Occupied Territories Bill was introduced by Independent Senator Frances Black in 2018 and was widely supported, bu

Independent Alliance members in the Dáil have been called on to support legislation banning the import of goods from the Israeli occupied territories. The Government's junior coalition partners were under pressure to support the law, which would make it an offence for a person to sell or