• Elkin: We will soon advance separation of Palestinian neighborhoods from Jerusalem
• Catalonia declared independence, Spain took control over it
• And only Netanyahu didn’t know // Yossi Verter
• Commander of Hamas security forces was injured in assassination attempt
• Zionism or supporting a state for all its citizens? Internal debate in Meretz on definition of party
• Apax (company) operated lobbyists, hired public servants and received billion shekel tax break
• The original sin // Gideon Levy
• Sour face // Rogel Alpher

• Catalonia: 5 hours of independence
• Israel - Judo powerhouse
• “She made my life miserable!!” - Text messages that woman suing Sara Netanyahu sent to her sister that show what she claims to have suffered while working for Mrs. Netanyahu
• Pitiable // Sima Kadmon
• The blackening law suit // Shlomo Pyotrokovsky

• The newest Sara Netanyahu scandal: The text messages were revealed
• The “French” crisis in the coalition
• Good law, (but) not retroactive // Adv. Yechiel Gutman
• Catalonia: Independence being tested

• Catalonia: Independence on paper
• Return of the “French Bill”
• Without a flag, with pride: Israel national Judo team won 5 medals in grand slam in Abu Dhabi
• Taking off: Record number of women (50) finish IAF pilots’ pre-course trial period
• Police vs. Health Ministry: “Preventing the lessening of violence in hospitals” - Hospitals claim that police are delaying the deployment of officers in hospital departments; Police: “Budget was approved”
• Prime Minister on lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu: “We are sick of the lies and the slander”

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings
3. On the Record

The government of Israel is set to endorse a bill, which – if passed by the Knesset – would be the most dramatic, far-reaching piece of Israeli legislation on West Bank settlements in decades. The bill would annex to Jerusalem nine settlements located in the heart of the West Bank, including three of the largest West Bank settlements, creating a situation on the ground that would make the establishment of an independent Palestinian state all but impossible. Prime Minister Netanyahu said he will endorse the plan, and the Cabinet’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation is expected this coming Sunday to approve it and send it to the Knesset for a vote.

With the Israeli cabinet set to discuss a bill for the de-facto annexation of some of the largest West Bank settlements to Israel, Americans for Peace Now (APN) is calling on President Trump to immediately intervene and warn Prime Minister Netanyahu that the United States will block such a move.

According to Israeli news reports, Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation is expected this coming Sunday to discuss a bill calling for the incorporation into Jerusalem of a collection of large settlements in the heart of the West Bank. The bill’s authors are presenting it as an “annexation bill.”

Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

This week, Alpher discusses the issue with the Kurds, in a nutshell; how the Kurds got themselves in this mess and how Kirkuk figures so centrally in the Kurdish independence controversy; why the US is opposed to Kurdish independence and why it appears to be taking the side of Iran, Turkey and Iraq in this dispute; why Israel supports Kurdish independence; whether there is a Syrian Kurdish connection; and the argument that Israel is hypocritical because it supports Kurdish independence but thwarts Palestinian independence.