Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein

Israeli soccer to be played on Shabbat after all

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said that he did not see a reason to enforce a law that has not been enforced in decades.

Israeli restaurants can present as kosher without Chief Rabbinate’s certifiers

While the restaurants cannot call themselves kosher, the attorney general ruled, they can say they have private certification but must make their method clear.

Israel’s Channel 10 avoids closure with six-month license extension

Channel 10, one of two private television networks in the country, was set to shut down at midnight Thursday due to crushing debt until Israel’s attorney general intervened.

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