Binyamin Netanyahu

Factions indicate no backing for contentious judicial changes unless religious students exempted from military draft

Some 10,000 reservists have refused to volunteer in protest over right-wing government’s judicial overhaul

Bezalel Smotrich also refused to allocate money for Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem to study in Israeli universities

Opponents say judicial overhaul ‘undermines the rule of law in Israel’

Binyamin Netanyahu refuses to commit to obeying next month’s court decision in interviews with US television

Reservists have stopped volunteering in the air force, cyber and military intelligence units and special forces in protest at the government’s controversial judicial overhaul

Unprecedented numbers threaten to cease volunteering for duty due to the government’s judicial overhaul

Nineteen arrested as protests spread to military while opposition pledges to challenge changes

Opposition parties and NGOs have petitioned the high court against the law passed on Monday

Yitzhak Herzog warns ‘We are in a state of national emergency’ ahead of judicial reform Bill being passed

Opposition politicians chanted ‘shame’ and storm out of Knesset chamber on Monday

Lawmakers debate imminent Bill in Knesset as business leaders threaten strikes and reserve soldiers say they will ignore call-up orders if it is passed

Hundreds of thousands protest against plan to reduce the power of the judiciary to oversee political decisions

Opponents claim divisive coalition government move will end Israel’s traditional system of checks and balances

Prominent business leaders announced they have come to an agreement to shut down the economy unless a halt is called to the judicial legislation

Italian weather service warns ‘ancient heat records will be broken’ as temperatures of over 45 degrees forecast

Knesset approves first reading of Bill scrapping ‘reasonableness’ standard that allows supreme court to overrule government decisions

Protesters plan to block key highways and junctions as thousands of activists descend on Ben Gurion international airport

Opposition claims government’s judicial overhaul threatens democracy and will radically alter system of checks and balances

Yoav Gallant called for detention over recent attacks against Palestinians in West Bank

Washington says move to expand Jewish settlements in occupied territory is ‘an obstacle to peace’

Netanyahu’s government also authorises residency in three illegal outposts that settlers established without government approval

Netanyahu criticises attacks by settlers against Palestinians

Commandos backed by a military helicopter mount assault on Jenin

Changing the make-up of the Judges Selection panel is a key element of the package of reforms designed to shift power away from the judiciary

Yair Lapid, now leader of the opposition, gave testimony in one of three corruption cases involving Israel’s prime minister

Israeli prime minister says he will not be bound by US deal with Tehran

Five men in their 20s and 30s were killed when gunmen opened fire at a carwash in the Arab village of Yafa an-Naseriyye in northern Israel

At least 91 people have been murdered in Israel’s Arab towns since the start of the year

Israel says two of its soldiers were shot dead on Saturday by an Egyptian security services member

Erdogan’s playbook is Trump’s playbook. The age of the strongman is not over yet

Approval of budget with backing of ultra-Orthodox and right-wing groups represents significant victory for Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition

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Thousands of Jews will march through the Old City to the Western Wall to celebrate Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War

Itamar Ben-Gvir would have been unwelcome as his ‘views contradict the values the EU stands for’

Right-wing members of Israeli government react angrily over what they see as a lacklustre military response by the Israeli army

Demonstration was in response to mass protests against reform driven by government

At sunset, the mourning turns to exuberance as the country marks Independence Day

Hamas praises incident as ‘heroic’ as Israel mourns soldiers amid escalating violence and political division

Ahead of what is usually a national day of pride, there are fears the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ could be in peril