they want to leave the likud party? —— do you want to lead.ding the country. a lot of my success is due to his support and the back—up i got as mayor ofjerusalem. i will stand to the side and help them manage the country in the next terms until he decides to leave. have you seen the polls, a jerusalem post poll, 59% of people said the criminal investigations of prime minister netanyahu were damaging his ability to run the country and security crisis and asked whether he was corrupt, 48% of respondents said yes. this is a noise, don't listen to such noise levels. there are police investigations continuing. police can investigate, i have no problem with police investigations. i will continue supporting him when i become a parliament member. do you believe israel can and will make deep compromises for peace, compromises that will have to include jerusalem? the answer is, a bad deal is worse than no deal. if positioned by a bad deal, israel will say no. any prime minister will say no. the people of israel will say no. a good deal like we did with

obviously benyamin netanyahu sees it a very different way and his likud party but it's interesting just to point out for our viewers that angela merkel is a very very very close friend of israel as she is very much beholden and supportive to israeli policy one of the primacy of period in government that she has germany will always support israel and she made very clear there that israeli politics something she doesn't want to interfere and i want to go back to this point of compromise peter because it was something we were just talking about this really is a month or of michael's that compromise consensus politics is the way to govern here but if sixty percent according to the figures that was quoted are trying to american sixty percent of the population don't think compromise is important that means you're always saying in politics and in society i'm right and you're wrong and there's nothing between us and this points the way towards a much more anglo-saxon style of politics of antagonistic politics me or you ciro psalm and i think you know that would be a very big turnaround for germ

twenty knesset members so it's very controversial and even benny begun a knesset member from the likud party did not support it the president of israel the attorney general the outgoing head of the jewish agency and other civil society groups all came out against it if this does marginalize a significant section of the israeli population do you think that israel could still be called a democracy. you know rob i think this is a very sad day for democracy in israel certainly not a liberal democracy. i think that there's going to be a lot of pressure on israel to. either amend this bill or probably scrap it altogether once the knesset is back in session and in addition to the parts that we just talked about there are other elements of the bill that are extremely problematic such as the relegation of israel diaspora relations to the dash for community this was basically a demand made by the ultra-orthodox parties in israel and will not go over well with american jewry so this will certainly exacerbate the tensions between israel and the american jewish community in addition to course further mar

jewish immigration, and needs to defend its homeland.the jewish amir ohana is a member of the ruling likud party>> ( translated ): this is not a bi-national state, this not a bilingual state, this is not a double-capital state, this is state of a single nationality of the jewish people, its language is hebrew, andts capital is jerusalem. >> the reason this is happening >> schifrin: david makovsky is a distinguished fellow at the i washingttitute for near east policy. he's not in favor of the bill, but says lawmakers recently removed some of its most controversial clauses. discriminatory policies can be >> the law is a basic law, akin to a constitutional amendment. and that means criticis will have a hard time challenging it, says yousef munayyer, the executive director of the u.s. campaign for palestinian rights. >> this now becomes a toolic through various discriminatory policies can be supported in the legal system d thus it enshrines, in constituonal way, a constitutional defense for discrimination against non-jews in isrl. >> schifrin: arab israelis are more than 20% of israeli citizens. the

she's a member of the israeli parliament from the prime minister's likud party, and i asked her why hereeds this bill. let's speak about what is the nationality bill. this actually describes the character of our country. it constitutes the symbol of israel, the anthem of israel and that the language and many other characters, like any other country. the foundation legislation, because we don't have a constitution, we describe the foundation laws as a future constitution for the state of israel. and that's why this bill was so israel. and that's why this bill was so important for us. why now? many people would not see israel as a country that lacks self—confidence. isn't it a confident nation already without any of this legislation which is running very, very divisive today in the reactions we've heard? israel definitely don't like any confidence but if we do want a future constitution as part of our democracy, and this is why we are aiming fora democracy, and this is why we are aiming for a proper constitution. we need to legislate a future legislation laws will be a part of oui’ legisl

legislation was passed prime minister netanyahu took a selfie with members of his center right likud party that photo well the photo of the photo was widely circulated and later used by a cartoonist by the name of cats and this was his drawing that was published in the jerusalem post news magazine called the jerusalem report it's a pretty clear omagh to george orwell's book animal farm which was also made into an animated film in one nine hundred fifty four i believe that's also used a quote from that story that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others so this cartoon has created some controversy and it's been hotly debated on israeli twitter as jessica here put it many are talking about whether this caricature crossed some sort of life sure pigs aren't kosher in judaism but the imagery has reminded many israelis of anti semitic cartoons of the past and on tuesday the jerusalem post fired him or rather decided not to continue their relationship with him as a freelance cartoonist the dirt the journalist union the union of journalists in israel has offered him legal aid and