Meir Sheetrit

Obama: Plan to build 900 units in Gilo doesn't make Israel safer - Jerusalem Post

BBC News Obama: Plan to build 900 units in Gilo doesn't make Israel safer Jerusalem Post Israel's latest move to build some 900 units in the capital's southeastern Gilo neighborhood complicates administration efforts to...

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Regulation of Genetic Information Approved

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) The Knesset Committee on Science and Technology, headed by Kadima MK Meir Sheetrit, has approved a bill to regulate testing to determine genetic family ties and other information...

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MK Sheetrit: "Online Government" Bill Coming Soon

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) Chairman Meir Sheetrit of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee said Monday that he will soon introduce an "online government" bill. The proposal is designed to allow...

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Biometric Votes Delayed

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) Votes on the second and third readings of a bill to create a biometric data base for identification of Israelis was taken off the agenda of the Knesset Monday evening. Science...

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Peres and Kadimah lend support to J Street

By Ted Belman J Street must be fought on all fronts. It supports the Goldstone Report and a Judenfrei Judea and Samaria. It also opposes sanctions on Iran. Its position is clearly set out in my post, J-Street and Obama are in...

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Following murders, Israelis ask if immigration laws too lax

Peace talk efforts notwithstanding, Israelis have been transfixed by a series of high-profile violent crimes committed by two immigrants. Critics question if the door is open too wide to Jews wanting to live in Israel.

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Calls for Change to Law of Return

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) The law granting automatic Israeli citizenship to Jews everywhere is under attack, following the perceived increase in Russian immigrant crime. “I propose that anyone who wants to...

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Knesset committee hears that pupils are 'illiterate' in science

Eighty-five percent of Israeli school pupils are "clueless" about science, with only 8% being taught some chemistry, 10% biology and physics even less. So said Prof. Ehud Keinan, president of the Israel Chemistry Society, at a...

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Bill: Let Parents Limit Cellphone Charge

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) MK Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) has proposed a law that would cellphone clients to set a limit for calls made from their phones. Sheetrit said that “nowadays, many parents have to pay...

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J Street ‘thrilled’ by turnout at first national conference

The pro-Israel lobby J Street kicked off its first national conference on Sunday with more than 1,500 guests at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. Despite controversy and tension surrounding the convention, organizers...

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