Knesset

1 It sits on a 20-acre campus atop a hill at Jerusalem’s western entrance, holding pride of place along with the architectural and national landmarks that surround it, including the Knesset, or parliament, and the .

2 Last month, Zoabi took part in a protest by female parliamentarians and officials at the Knesset after two aides were barred for wearing insufficiently “modest” dresses.

3 This man, a future speaker of the Knesset, had good reason for his knowledge, having direct ties to the underground group that had sent Heifetz a threatening note about his choice of repertoire.

4 The editorial points to a Knesset meeting on Wednesday during which one lawmaker suggested that Israel should "raze all the buildings" in northern Gaza and "build neighborhoods" for Israeli settlers.

5 Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Jerusalem since Sunday, when a planned four-day antigovernment protest began outside Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset.

6 Some of the demonstrators outside the Knesset, the Israeli Legislature, in Jerusalem, were expected to remain in a cluster of tents there for several days.

7 He was heckled in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, and spat at in public.

8 The announcement came just a day before Enaam Mayara was scheduled to visit Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, on a trip aimed at cementing the fledgling ties between the two countries.

9 Israel's close ally the United States called the Knesset vote "unfortunate" and urged work toward a broad consensus.

10 The demonstrators filled the streets outside of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, amid growing calls for early elections.

11 The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has adjourned for recess, so it could be weeks before Netanyahu's future strategy becomes clear.

12 “I just wish the Knesset cared as much about freedom as it does about looking at women’s dresses.”

13 With fears of a constitutional crisis mounting, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana said on Wednesday that parliament would not accept "abjectly being trampled" by the Supreme Court.

14 In 1989, a year after his election as Knesset speaker, Shilansky urged lawmakers to read the names of each Holocaust victim, as six million felt like an incomprehensible number.

15 “Palestinians are facing political expulsion from the Knesset, and physical expulsion from the Negev.”

16 Faisal hoped eventually to get a seat in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, like his father before him.

他希望最后能像他的父亲那样在以色列的议会中占得一席之地。

17 Lithuanians have been slow to recognize their role in helping Nazi Germans exterminate Lithuanian Jews in World War Two, even after the Lithuanian president apologized in Israel's Knesset in 1995.

18 “On the Trunk of an Olive Tree” is inspired by verses by the Palestinian poet and former Israeli Knesset member Tawfik Ziad, which imagines him carving his history into bark.

19 Justice Minister Yariv Levin, another architect of the judicial overhaul, said the Supreme Court session was "a mortal blow to democracy and the standing of the Knesset".

20 It may imply a traditional, national lesson in its presence and placement — it was, after all, founded by a Knesset law in 1953 — but it scrupulously avoids moralizing or posturing.

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