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FIRST ON FOX: In an interview with Fox News Digital, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, candidly discusses the criticism of the Biden administration and other nations in the Jewish state’s efforts to reform its judiciary.
Israel is engulfed in competing mass protests in support of and against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned overhaul of the judiciary. President Biden has assertively pushed back against Netanyahu’s efforts to rein in the power of the judiciary, sparking criticism from Republican
Arthur Dantchik, the American multibillionaire who provided millions to the think tank behind Israel’s highly polarizing judicial overhaul plan, announced on Friday that he would no longer donate to the organization.
Mr. Dantchik, 65, said in a statement that he would part ways with the Kohelet Policy Forum, which conceived a series of measures to transform Israel’s judicial system. The proposal has divided the country and led to weeks of protests. Critics of the plan say it will eliminate crucial
According to an internal email obtained by Axios, Google plans to significantly revamp its Assistant digital assistant to utilize new AI technologies similar to ChatGPT and the company’s Bard chatbot.
The change signals a major shift in strategy for Google and how Assistant will work for consumers, developers, and employees.
Google plans to support the new AI-powered Assistant and the original version.
The email, sent by Google VP Peeyush Ranjan and Director of Product Duke Dukellis
When Israeli lawmakers passed a deeply contentious law last Monday to weaken the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not linger in the voting chamber to celebrate.
Instead, the justice minister, Yariv Levin, an architect of the legislation, stayed to pose for selfies with fellow lawmakers as Mr. Netanyahu walked somberly from the room. Mr. Levin, not the prime minister, made a celebratory speech from the podium.
“We have made the first step in the important historic process of
Just days after his coalition passed the first stage of a judicial overhaul plan that has divided the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel struck a defiant tone, saying he hoped to reinstate a key ally convicted of a felony and declining to say if he would respect a Supreme Court ruling on the plan if it did not go his way.
In a flurry of interviews with U.S. broadcasters on Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu sought to play down concerns
Naama Levin and her partner had always dreamed about taking a break from Israel and going on an extended vacation abroad. But they did not start making concrete plans until late last year, when Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power and formed a coalition with extreme right-wing and religiously conservative partners.
“We didn’t have the nerve to make the move; we had to muster it,” said Ms. Levin, 46, who has two young children and has lived in Tel Aviv for
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday adopted new rules to address cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) concerns.
“I think for the SEC, probably the biggest concern there is potentially, how does this actually impact individual investors and any sort of other aspects of that,” Peter Klimek, director of technology at cybersecurity firm Imperva, told Fox News Digital.
Commissioners voted to propose a rule that would require broker-dealers to address conflicts of interest in the use of AI in
Israel’s Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would hear petitions by the opposition in September to strike down the first part of the government’s contentious plan to weaken the country’s judiciary, which passed earlier this week.
Defying widespread protests and warnings from key allies such as the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition enacted the law on Monday, aimed at curbing the Supreme Court’s longstanding practice of overruling some policies and appointments made by the national government on grounds
More than 11,000 Israelis in the military reserve said last week they’d resign if the government’s judicial overhaul went ahead. But now that the law has been passed, military officials and experts say it will take time to test the sincerity of those warnings.
The military says that the vast majority of those who participated in the joint declarations last week have yet to either send in their resignations or formally turn down direct call-ups. Since most reservists only get
