ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: CEREMONY FOR THE 14TH KNESSET
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Outgoing Prime Minister Shimon Peres and his successor Benjamin Netanyahu have both been sworn into the new Israeli parliament.
The ceremony for the 14th Knesset was chaired by Peres - who at 72 was the oldest member present.
He said he believed that the Knesset was united in its search for peace and security in Israel, above any differences of political opinion.
President Ezer Weizman's first job on arriving at the Knesset was to inspect the guard of honour outside Israel's parliament building.
He then joined Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu and out going premier Shimon Peres for the swearing-in ceremony inside the Knesset chamber.
Peres, as the oldest member of the Knesset gave the introductory speech, saying he was convinced that concern for peace and security surmounted any political differences.
He then read out the short sentence that the newly elected members must swear by.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
I promise to keep allegiance to the state of Israel and to honorably fulfill my role in the Knesset.
SUPER CAPTION: Shimon Peres, Out-going Prime Minister
One by one all 120 members swore their allegiance to the State.
The new Knesset starts a four-year term under a new right-wing government with Prime Minister-elect, Benjamin Netanyahu at its head.
Netanyahu will announce his new coalition government on Tuesday.
One person in the Knesset - Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair - found the ceremony a little hard going and fell asleep half-way through.
His mother explained:
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(Q) What happened during the ceremony that he couldn't stay awake?
(A) He's simply tired. He was happy but tired.
(Q) From what, excitement?
(A) From happiness, all as usual, no special excitement.
(Q) Do you know when there will be a new government announced?
We think tomorrow there will be a new government in Israel, and it will be a good government.
SUPER CAPTION: Sarah Netanyahu, Wife of Benjamin Netanyahu
Earlier, both Netanyahu and Peres along with President Ezer Weizman. attended a ceremony where a mounted copy of Israel's Declaration of Independence was unveiled.
Netanyahu and Peres arrived together at the ceremony with Shevah Weiss, the chairman of the Knesset.
The declaration was signed by David Ben-Gurion and other members of the then-Jewish Agency, which later became the first Israeli parliament.
Ben-Gurion was Israel's first Prime Minister.
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The Syrian flag in front of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem, capital of Israel
Syrian flag placed opposite Knesset as gesture of goodwill
As part of 9th annual Jerusalem Marathon, the city's municipality decided to place flags of all 80 countries participating in the event — and by sheer coincidence, the flag of Israel's war-torn neighbor ended up outside the parliament building
Yael Freidson|Published: 03.13.19 , 14:26
Israelis found themselves baffled by a Syrian flag placed across from the Knesset building in Jerusalem on Wednesday. To the surprise of many, it was planted there by the city’s municipality as an act of solidarity with a Syrian runner expected to participate in the Jerusalem Marathon this Friday.
The Friday’s marathon will be the ninth time the capital has hosted the event. Some 38,000 runners, from 80 countries, have already registered, and as a gesture of good will, the Municipality of Jerusalem placed the flags of all participating states along the marathon route.
According to a statement released by the municipality, the placing of the Syrian flag opposite the Knesset was completely coincidental.
Although the Syrian runner, Hassan Shishakly, registered for the marathon, he has yet to collect his kit for the race, casting uncertainty over his participation, which would involve running through the streets of Jerusalem, one of the central issues in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
he Damascus-born Shishakly has been competing professionally for several years, and currently shares his time between the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates as part of his training program.
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion said the gesture carried no political undertones. “In our united capital, all are respected ... In sports, everyone is equal, and everyone can test the limits of their athletic abilities in order to break records and conquer new heights. Sport is a bridge connecting different people and cultures he said.
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Israel: Parliament approves 'Jewish nation-state bill' amid protests
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The Israel Knesset approved the ‘Jewish nation-state bill’ in its second and third readings, with 62 votes to 55, in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Arab-Israeli politicians of the Joint List party left the parliament in protest, chanting ‘apartheid, apartheid’ against the new law.
Critics say the legislation is discriminatory against minorities such as Arabs, the LGBT community and Ethiopian Jews in Israel.
The law declares Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. It will entail measures such as making Hebrew the official language while sidelining Arabic to a 'unique status' and legally binding the Hebrew calendar as the official calendar.
One of the contested aspects of the bill, which has even drawn criticism from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, allows 'a community, including members of one religion or of one nationality, to maintain a separate communal settlement.'
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Israel: Rivlin urges parties to form 'government of national unity' at Knesset swearing-in
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The President of Israel Reuven Rivlin urged all parties to form a 'government of national unity' during a speech at the inauguration and swearing-in of the new Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Honoured guests, my call for a broad government was met with criticism from left and right. I hear that criticism. It is legitimate and contains some truth. I know that a broad government or a 'government of national unity' is not what every Israeli citizen voted for at the elections. I also know that if such a broad government is formed, some of you will find yourselves in the opposition. And yet I, from the bottom of my heart, and in order to carry out my role, am asked and ask to be your president too, Rivlin said at the ceremony.
An alliance of four Arab-majority parties in the Knesset staged a boycott of the swearing-in ceremony in protest against what it calls the government’s failure to address rising levels of violence in Arab towns.
On September 26 Rivlin gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a mandate to form a new government after talks between Netanyahu and his main challenger, Blue and White's Benny Gantz, failed to reach an agreement on a unity government, and after a second 2019 election ended in a deadlock.
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Standing Ovation for Mike Pence at Israel's Parliament (Knesset) in Jerusalem
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISITS THE KNESSET
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U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Israel on Wednesday that the majority of United Nations members held the organisation responsible for a crisis in peacemaking with the Palestinians.
But during his visit to the Israeli parliament - the Knesset - the Speaker of the House, Dan Tichon, criticised the U-N for being biased against Israel.
His remarks triggered a shouting match among legislators and left Annan, sitting in the visitor's gallery, looking bewildered.
Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, visited the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Still basking in the glow of his success in Iraq, Annan is looking for a part in Arab-Israeli peacemaking, offering to play a role in an Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanon.
He has given his approval to a proposed Israeli pullback in Lebanon, although he has also urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to put too much pressure on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
But he has already told the Israelis he is not a magician, and his influence in Middle East issues is limited.
After visiting the Holocaust museum, Annan paid his respects to U-N soldiers who have lost their lives in the Middle East, laying a wreath at a memorial in the grounds of the U-N headquarters.
Then it was on to the Israeli parliament - the Knesset - where the Speaker of the House, Dan Tichon, criticised the U-N for being biased against Israel.
His remarks triggered a shouting match among legislators.
Annan, sitting in the visitor's gallery, looked bewildered and turned to a translator for explanation.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
Israel is a veteran member of the U-N, yet our country has not always received warm acceptance within that organisation. In fact, over the years, Israel has often come under attack, and the U-N has passed resolutions of censure against Israel which were not impartial. A strategy which intends to isolate Israel and undermine the legitimacy of our state will not contribute to furthering the peace process.
SUPER CAPTION: Dan Tichon, Speaker of the House
Annan and his wife, Nane, walked out after about 10 minutes.
Members of the U-N delegation said Annan had not left in a huff, but was trying to stick to a tight timetable.
He later urged the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to commit itself to the Oslo interim peace accords and to work for a comprehensive settlement based
on the principle of land for peace.
SOUNDBITE:(English)
Here is what the great majority of member states of the United Nations said. They regard Israel as having been responsible directly or indirectly of provocative acts that undermine goodwill and spark hostilities. In their view Israel has not abided by security council resolutions. They point out that you have been slow to fulfil your obligations under the Oslo agreement, and that you have made your implementation conditional in the way that the Oslo accords did not intend.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, U-N Secretary General
SOUNDBITE:(English)
I think when it comes to the peace process, all parties have to make an effort, and it takes two to tango. Israel cannot do it alone.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, U-N Secretary General
Annan is currently on a Middle East tour that includes meetings with Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian officials.
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He also urged everybody to be more positive, not to lose hope, and to give this peace process a chance to succeed given the fact that the UN itself also and the Secretary General himself feels that he can inject some hope and credibility in the process.
SUPER CAPTION: Hanan Ashwari, Palestinian cabinet minister
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: KNESSET SWORN IN
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Israeli prime minister-elect Ehud Barak has vowed to stop Jewish settlers from grabbing
hilltops in the West Bank and to re-evaluate Benjamin Netanyahu's settlement policy.
Palestinian officials welcomed Barak's statement.
His comments came as the 15th session of the Knesset opened in Jerusalem.
Israel's Knesset was sworn in on Monday.
President Ezer Weizman walked across a red carpet to the Knesset to open the ceremonies officially.
The parliament is a house divided.
It pits secular rights crusaders against ultra-orthodox rabbis, immigrants against veterans and Arabs against Jews.
News Prime Minister Ehud Barak won a solid 56-44 percent majority in the May 17 elections on a platform of reviving talks with the Syrians and Palestinians frozen during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rule.
At least 67 legislators of 120 belong to parties committed to reviving the process, including 26 in Barak's One Israel slate.
The problem for Barak - intensifying his efforts to establish a government well before his July 9 deadline - is reconciling parties on other issues.
The stringently religious Shas party, with 17 seats, is at loggerheads with Shinui and Meretz, two parties that ran ardently secular campaigns and won 16 seats between them.
All three parties back Barak on peace issues.
Meretz and Shinui adamantly insist on leaving Shas out of the coalition, saying that its years controlling powerful ministries allowed it to use government funds to nurture
support in religious schools and synagogues for its ideal of a theocracy.
Barak colleagues say excluding Shas would be unreasonable.
Even so, Barak, unlike some of his predecessors, will likely be able to win a solid majority in the 120-member parliament for future peace initiatives with Syria and the Palestinians.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The main guidelines of a possible new government with Barak will be based on three major agendas, one is the peace process, another is the restructuring of our social and economic policies and a third is the so-called constitutional revolution, constitutional reform.
SUPER CAPTION: Shlomo Ben-Ami - Member of Knesset for One Israel party
As the Knesset opened its session, protesters gathered outside the building to demonstrate for peace.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
It's like any party - when you're defeated in an election you have to pick up the pieces and put them back together again.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop, activist and member of the Movement for Soldiers who Refuse to serve in Lebanon or in the Territories
Barak vowed on Monday to stop Jewish settlers from grabbing hilltops in the West Bank and to re-evaluate decisions on settlement policy taken by his predecessor Netanyahu.
Barak's pledge to curb settlement expansion was his first public reassurance to the Arabs on the issue since the May 17 election.
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All the fights Israeli parliament knesset fight ! חברי הכנסת, נא להתנהג בהתאם
All the fights Israeli parliament knesset fight ! חברי הכנסת, נא להתנהג בהתאם
MK Michaeli splashes water in Knesset and MORE
Palestinian member of Knesset orders Israeli minister down from podium
This incident occured on October 21st, 2015, in the midst of a 2 year wave of violence sweeping the whole of Israel and the Palestinian territories, during which hundreds of individual Palestnians mostly youths, tried to kill Israeli civillians and soldiers using car rammings, firearms and mostly stabbings.
The Palestinians have accused Israel for allegedly trying to undermine the status quo on the site known as Temple Mount for Jews or al-Haram al-Sharif for Muslims - thus provoking the wave of violence to take place, a narrative widely embraced by Palestinian members of the Israeli parliament.
The Israeli government has denied the occusation, instead blaming the Palestinian authority and their supporters in the Israeli-Arab public for incitement and lie-spreading.
Only a week preior to this incident 2 Palestinian gunmen murdered 3 Israelis on a Jerusalem bus, injuring 15. One of the deceased was a peace activist. Simultaneously, another Palestinian rammed 3 Israelis and then attacked them with an axe, murdering an old Rabbi.
ISRAEL: ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU HECKLED BY ARABS AT OPENING OF KNESSET
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his Labour party had prophesied that Palestinians may turn their guns on Israelis at the time of the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Netanyahu was heckled by Arabs and he spoke at the opening session of the Israeli Knesset, Monday.
Left wingers, protesting outside the Knesset, called for the peace process to be put back on track.
As peace talks were continuing on the border town of Erez, the first session of the Knesset convened, Monday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned the Labour Party of the dangers of arming Palestinians.
Palestinian police shot at Israeli troops during riots and demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip two weeks ago. Both sides dispute who started the firing.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
I do not believe that these people meant to bring about a situation in which the terror would take control. And it is clear to me that not one of the founders of these agreements could not have imagined that the thousands of guns that were given to the Palestinian army would be pointed at the I.D.F. (Israel Defence Forces), even though I have to say that we warned them from this very podium.
SUPERCAPTION: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The accusations were directed at former Prime Minister Shimon Peres of the Labour Party.
Within the Knesset, Arabs accused the Prime Minister of being responsible for the killings two weeks ago.
Abdel Wahab Darawashe, of the Arab Democratic Party, said it was Netanyahu's fault that the peace process had collapsed.
Outside the Knesset, left wing protesters called for the peace process to be put back on track.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
And we're here today because today the Knesset is opening again, and we want to say that Mr Netanyahu must go in the peace process as the way Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin before him because he don't elected to cut the peace process.
SUPER CAPTION: Eldad, Aharoni, supporter of Meretz group
Protesters are pinning their hopes on peace talks in Erez.
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Knesset passes bill to hinder East Jerusalem withdrawal
A new Israeli law makes it harder to hand over parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
The bill passed early on Tuesday and stipulates that two-thirds support is needed in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, before Israel can relinquish control over any portion of the holy city to a foreign entity, according to local media.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom reports from occupied East Jerusalem.
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Knesset - Parliament of the State of Israel
Sadat Knesset Speech (With English Subtitles)
1977 speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Israeli Knesset (with English subtitles).
خطاب انور السادات فى الكنيست مترجم انجليزى
נאום סאדאת בכנסת מתורגם לאנגלית
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SYND 28 11 77 ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BEGIN ADDRESSING THE KNESSET IN JERUSALEM
(28 Nov 1977) Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin addressing the Knesset in Jerusalem.
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Israel: Tensions spark in Israeli Knesset after deputy calls IDF soldiers 'murderers'
Clashes erupted between the Israeli parliament deputies, in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, during a parliamentary session on Israel's reconciliation agreement with Turkey.
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Sadat Visits Israel - 1977 | Today In History | 19 Nov 17
On November 19, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
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Israel: Knesset votes to dissolve parliament, sets new election for September
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Israeli lawmakers have voted to dissolve parliament in Jerusalem early on Thursday morning, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed a midnight local time deadline on Wednesday to form a coalition government.
The Knesset voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself in a move that triggered a fresh election, to be held on September, 17.
Netanyahu’s inability to form a right-wing coalition following April's election is the first time in Israel's history that a prime minister-designate has failed to form a coalition.
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