August 10

👉🏽 Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut has been asked to recuse herself because of a Lavi organization petition claiming bias, that Hayut has publicly criticized the reasonableness law, according to Maariv.

👉🏽 Wall Street Journal reporting that the Saudis have agreed to the outlines of a recognition deal with Israel, but are in no rush to do it with the current Israeli government .

.👉🏽 All of Israel’s major universities have announced they will strike if the government ignores court rulings. Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Technion, Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben Gurion, Bar Ilan, and Open University have all declared a labor dispute in preparation for a strike.

👉🏽 Globes reporting that economists are worried Fitch will downgrade Israel’s credit outlook, further harming the exchange rate.

👉🏽 Calcalist reporting that pension and investment funds being diverted to overseas because of concerns about financial ramifications of reform on the local investment scene.

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