Aug 2

👉🏽 Kan News reporting that there are concerns about IDF long-term damage because of volunteers not showing up.
Likud Defense Minister Yoav Gallant refused to give the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee details of damage, because of concerns of leaks.

👉🏽 Several prominent protesters were called in to Tel Aviv Police Headquarters yesterday, prompting protests outside the station. Ongoing.

👉🏽 Tomorrow the court (Justices Hayut, Vogelman, and Amit) will hear discussion of the amendment to Basic Law; The Government, that only health reasons can preclude prime ministers being considered fit for service.
Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara had last week called for the law to be struck down.

👉🏽 “Yariv Levin wants a civil war, but there
is a large group in the Likud opposing Levin,”according to a senior member of Likud. JPost has the story:https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-753377

👉🏽 Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara opposes recusing PM Netanyahu for conflict of interest.

👉🏽 TOI reporting Likud Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman announcing sex-segregated extended hours at two nature reserves. Israel Nature and Parks Authority won’t comply unless court weighs in. Parks to include include Einat Tzukim in the Judean Desert, and Ein Hanya, near Jerusalem.

👉🏽 The latest Pew Report (April, with a sample size of 1001 and an error margin of 4.2) shows Israelis evenly split in now they feel about the Israeli Prime Minister.https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/01/israelis-have-polarized-views-of-netanyahu-reflecting-conflicts-many-see-in-israeli-society/

👉🏽 Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, told Kol Berama radio, reported by TOI, that they should oust Likud Defense Minister Yoav Gallant because he is too left-wing.

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