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Israel ordered a boycott of the country's oldest newspaper over its criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the war in Gaza.
The proposal from Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi was approved by cabinet ministers on Sunday. Under the proposal, government officials and employees of government-funded bodies will be banned from communicating with Haaretz, Israel's most prominent left-wing newspaper.
Government advertisements will no longer be included in the paper, which Mr Karhi accused of supporting “the enemies of the state in the midst of a war” and funding incitement against the state.
“We will not allow a reality in which the publisher of an official newspaper in the state of Israel will call for the imposition of sanctions against it,” his office added.
The paper had been critical of Mr Netanyahu even before the Gaza war began and has investigated Israel's use of Palestinians as human shields to explore rigged buildings and tunnels in the enclave. The government considered a ban on the paper after comments made by its publisher Amos Schocken at a conference in London last month, where he referred to Palestinian militants as “freedom fighters” and accused Mr Netanyahu's government of imposing a “cruel apartheid regime” on Palestinians.
Haaretz said the decision was “another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy”. The paper “will not baulk and will not morph into a government pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader,” it said.
Israel has used criticism of its war on Gaza to shut down media outlets operating in the country. In May, Israel's parliament voted to shut down Al Jazeera's operations, before raiding and closing its offices in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in September.
Moral education needed in a 'rapidly changing world'
Moral education lessons for young people is needed in a rapidly changing world, the head of the programme said.
Alanood Al Kaabi, head of programmes at the Education Affairs Office of the Crown Price Court - Abu Dhabi, said: "The Crown Price Court is fully behind this initiative and have already seen the curriculum succeed in empowering young people and providing them with the necessary tools to succeed in building the future of the nation at all levels.
"Moral education touches on every aspect and subject that children engage in.
"It is not just limited to science or maths but it is involved in all subjects and it is helping children to adapt to integral moral practises.
"The moral education programme has been designed to develop children holistically in a world being rapidly transformed by technology and globalisation."
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Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
