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Israel’s criminal age-of-consent framework sets a default at 16, with limited close‑in‑age exceptions allowing consensual relations down to 14 if the partners are within three years of age . Reporting...
Israeli Arab citizens legally hold the same core civil and political rights as Jewish citizens—citizenship, voting rights, access to courts, public health and education—but multiple laws, policies and...
Israel’s statutory age of sexual consent remains 16 for penetrative sexual relations, with a close-in-age exemption that can allow consensual relations from age 14 when the age gap is three years or l...
Available sources show Arab citizens have served in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) since 1949 and that Arab parties and individual Arab lawmakers sometimes join or support governing coalitions — no...
Israel has recently overhauled parts of its sexual-offences framework: the Knesset passed legislation broadening the definition of rape to include male victims and to abolish archaic terms, while Isra...
Most reporting and surveys from October 2025 show the American Jewish community reacting to President Donald Trump with a mix of sharp domestic criticism and cautious or conditional praise for specifi...
Arab citizens of Israel face a suite of land- and housing-related policies and practices that produce markedly different outcomes compared with Jewish citizens, rooted in state institutions, Jewish Na...
Israeli law criminalizes sexual activity with minors, sets the general age of consent at 16 with limited close‑in‑age exceptions allowing consensual activity from 14 in some circumstances, and provide...
Israel is not uniformly "getting rid of free speech," but multiple credible analyses document significant and widening restraints on expression tied to security, wartime conduct, and recent legislatio...
comprise just over one-fifth of ’s population and are a growing share of the working‑age population, but their presence across sectors is uneven: strong and even over‑representation in several contras...
The materials you provided do not state any percentage of Israeli government officials who are of ; none of the supplied analyses contain that statistic. The sources focus on Mizrahi social and politi...
Arab citizens of Israel hold full Israeli citizenship on paper—identity cards, passports, the right to vote and run for office—and enjoy formal civil and political rights protected by courts and insti...
Javier Milei has moved Argentina into unusually warm, highly visible alignment with Israel through repeated state visits, pledges to relocate Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem, and a high-profile $1 mi...
The claim that "Israeli leaders are foreigners, not truly Israeli" contradicts available reporting about Israel’s recent and long-standing leadership: Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s prime minister and...
Israel’s statutory minimum marriage age was raised to 18 in 2013, but narrow judicial exceptions remain: family courts can authorize marriages of minors older than 16 after interviewing them and (in s...
Israeli Arab citizens possess formal Israeli citizenship and legal protections that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza do not, but citizenship has not produced full equality: Israeli Arabs face sy...
Donald Trump did not give a documented speech "to a Muslim crowd" in the materials reviewed; his widely reported addresses on October 13, 2025 were delivered to the Knesset in Jerusalem and at an inte...
The Law of Return is the central legal mechanism shaping Israel’s Jewish immigration and therefore by granting Jews and people with at least one Jewish grandparent an automatic route to Israeli citize...
has tools to hold suspected child sex offenders accountable for crimes committed abroad—most obviously to foreign states and domestic measures restricting offenders’ movements and residency—but the pu...
Official policy as reflected in government statements, laws, and recent operational choices prioritizes and demographic control while offering conditional, limited Palestinian self-rule tied to disarm...