Published: 19 July 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Israel passes Jewish state law, enshrining ‘national home of the Jewish people’ (Times of Israel)
After hours of furious debate, Knesset narrowly approve quasi-constitutional Basic Law, which critics say discriminates against Arabs and other minority communities
Israel passes controversial nation-state law defining country as Jewish national homeland (Haaretz)
62 lawmakers vote in favour of the bill after a stormy debate; Arab lawmakers tossed out after they tear bill in protest, call it 'apartheid law'
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Knesset hears data on Israel’s Arab-Jewish health gap (Al-Monitor)
A first-of-its-kind debate in the Knesset finally addressed long years of neglect of the Arab population's health by the Israeli authorities, but there's no reason to believe much will change.
Photo: Israel's High Court of Justice (Israel Tourism/Wikimedia Commons)
