Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich provoked outrage by saying there was ‘no such thing as a Palestinian people’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government has raised concerns with the Israeli government over a minister’s “inflammatory” remarks about the Palestinian people, Guardian Australia can reveal. Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel...

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Biden tells Israel to 'walk away' from judicial reforms, Netanyahu responds saying he rejected 'pressure from abroad'.

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Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the government's choice to delay a vote on a controversial judicial overhaul amounts to a temporary compromise. He tells NPR what he'd like to see next. (Image credit: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

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A delay in Israel’s plan to overhaul the judiciary.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended but not abandoned a plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary following mass protests. Netanyahu agreed to delay the proposal, which appeases far-right parties, only after his controversial national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir signed off on it. Ben-Gvir, a far-right extremist with a record of anti-Arab rhetoric , was long considered...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stalling his judicial overhaul plan after two days of intensifying protests against it. He said Monday he wanted to seek a compromise and take a “timeout for dialogue” with his political opponents.

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Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached an agreement with his National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to postpone his coalition’s judicial legislative plan for this session of parliament. The controversial plan would overhaul the country's judiciary and has led to mass protests to stop the government’s legal reform package.  In a televised statement from the prime minister's...

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Thousands of protesters take to the street as Israel's PM Netanyahu fires his defence minister.

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Yoav Gallant called for a halt to the planned overhaul of Israel’s judiciary that has fiercely divided the country.

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