September 7

👉🏽 Over 800 doctors have already applied to relocate abroad in recent months because of judicial overhaul, greatly exacerbating existing doctor shortages, according to Health Ministry data reported in JPost,

👉🏽 Even Likud members are getting cold feet about the Haredi draft exemption. The Haredi parties have threatened to bring down the government if the bill is not passed; and they will not vote on other judicial reform bills until the Knesset has passed the exemption bill. (Details at IsraelMachar.com/haredi-exemption-bill )

👉🏽 The shekel is at its lowest in three years, apparently because of fears of a constitutional crisis.

👉🏽 Temporary injunction against the Shas-run food stamp program, which apparently unfairly favors Haredi families.

👉🏽 Maariv reporting that, in wake of Religious Zionism Simcha Rothman’s appeal to Chief Justice Esther Hayut’s decision not to recuse herself from the Reasonableness hearing because of alleged bias, Hayut decided to delegate the sub-appeal to Judge Uzi Fogelman.

👉🏽 With film companies worldwide pulling out of Russia since their invasion of Ukraine, Israel has just signed a cooperation agreement between Israeli and Russian filmmakers.

👉🏽 Disgruntled Haredim reiterate their insistence that the Knesset pass the Haredi military exemption before other judicial overhaul bills, or they will leave the coalition, bringing the government down, said Agudat Yisrael Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf. The exemption bill has been delayed several times, despite Likud’s signed guarantee and promises, Goldknopf said. The Haredi are insisting on a clause that would prevent the court from later overturning the law.

👉🏽 Religious Zionism rabbis claim government is not obligated to obey court rulings against them, saying, “The only authority in the country is the majority, as reflected in elections, the Knesset and the government. There is no other state authority above them.” The rabbis included Ramat Gan Chief Rabbi Yaakov Ariel; Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern; Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu; and rabbis Dov Lior, Elyakim Levanon, Yaakov Shapira and Zalman Melamed. (Times of Israel)

👉🏽 Foreign investments in Israel in first quarter down 60%, Finance Ministry says.

👉🏽 YNet reporting that judicial overhaul may endanger IDF soldiers overseas: “There is a high probability that those who serve in the territories and are photographed with their faces visible will be exposed to arrest in Europe and other places for war crimes.”

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