Once again, with the approval of Def. Min. Barak, Israel allows UNRWA in Gaza to receive millions of dollars. Hamas apparently makes a percentage.
J'lem court & Def. Min. agree to precedent-setting compromise: Student facing terrorist-like administrative jail term will travel to US instead.
Def. Min. Barak has approved, as a humanitarian gesture, the annual transfer of NIS 25 million to former Israeli employees and the like in Gaza.
Industry Min. Ben-Eliezer asks party colleague Def. Min. Barak to reconsider the decision to buy items from China – and buy blue-and-white instead.
Rabbi E. Melamed, whose yeshiva has been removed from the IDF’s Hesder arrangement, says Def. Min. Barak has “forced an artificial clash upon us.”
While Def. Min. Barak threatens to continue destroying Yesha neighborhoods, and amidst reports that Netanyahu backs him, many ministers oppose.
Former Def. Min. Moshe Arens will be the Guest of Honor at a memorial today for British Maj.-Gen. Orde Wingate, known in Israel as The Friend.
