The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen.
Haredi leader tells Degel HaTorah MKs to ready for weeklong delay on vote to dissolve Knesset
Rabbi Dov Lando, chairman of Degel HaTorah’s ruling Council of Torah Sages, orders the Haredi faction’s lawmakers to get ready for a potential weeklong delay on a preliminary vote to dissolve the Knesset, pending agreement “on the acute matter of the timetable for legislation” that would enshrine broad exemptions to mandatory military service for the ultra-Orthodox community.
According to Hebrew media reports, opposition lawmakers intend to go forward with the vote on the bill to dissolve the Knesset, the first of several plenum readings it would have to first clear before the parliament disbands and new elections are called.
Next US-Iran talks said likely to be postponed; source says date was never confirmed
Responding to reports that the sixth round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran will likely be postponed, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel that the timing of the meeting was never confirmed and that remains the case.
US judge says Trump cannot detain anti-Israel Columbia activist, but delays release until Friday
A federal judge rules that the Trump administration cannot use US foreign policy interests to justify its detention of Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, but says his order will not take effect until Friday.
Khalil was arrested on March 8 after the State Department revoked his green card under a little-used provision of US immigration law granting the US secretary of state the power to seek the deportation of any noncitizen whose presence in the country is deemed adverse to US foreign policy interests.
He has since been held in immigration detention in Louisiana.