Members of the Sudanese migrant community in Israel had planned to protest UAE support for the Sudanese rebel militia. The protest, planned for Thursday, was meant to take place outside the embassy in Herzliya

In a document highlighting the details of the proposed bill to pass the death penalty, committee chair Foghel wrote that 'anyone who kills Jews only because they are Jews' would be executed. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel warned the bill is 'directed solely at Palestinian Arabs'

Rabbi Dov Lando, leader of the Lithuanian Haredi movement and spiritual leader of Degel Hatorah, had previously instructed the faction's lawmakers to vote against the bill. The decision removes the last remaining ultra-Orthodox opposition to the measure