 10 people killed in California after another mass shooting. The suspect still at large. This evening, Defense Minister Yoav Galant now in a feud with the second minister in his ministry, Betzal El Smotrich. Now this over the evacuation of an illegal West Bank outpost, National Security Minister and right wing leader Itamar Ben Gvir now demanding the deconstruction of the Khan El Ahmar Bedouin village. I-24 News Defense correspondent Jonathan Regiff with the details. It was just a matter of time until Israel's complicated coalition agreements would lead to a clash between its members and that time came on Friday. The decision to evacuate an illegal West Bank outpost set up by settlers was taken by Defense Minister Yoav Galant as he has the authority over anything happening in the West Bank. This has always been the case, but this time, thanks to a coalition deal, there's a second minister in the Ministry of Defense. Betzal El Smotrich is not only the finance minister, but also that second minister, asking to be in charge of the civil aspects of control over the West Bank through the civil administration. He asked for the evacuation to stop, but Galant says he has the authority over the issue and insists that it should continue. Galant also has the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the prime minister's office issued a statement saying the government supports settlement, but only when it is done legally and is coordinated in advance with the prime minister and security officials, which was not done in this case. The statement also added a discussion on this issue will be held this week, but that did not satisfy Smotrich who ordered all of his party's ministers not to attend the Sunday morning cabinet meeting. The ministers from the other far-right party in the coalition, Jewish Power, attended the cabinet meeting, but party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir said that if Jewish illegal outposts are evicted, the same should apply for Arab outposts. Ben-Gvir is specifically speaking of Khan el-Ahmar, a Bedouin village east of Jerusalem, which the Israeli High Court of Justice determined could be evicted nearly five years ago, but it never happened. There will be no one law for Jews and one law for Arabs, no such thing. If you implement the law, it will be implemented on Khan el-Ahmar and tens of other Arab outposts. The same law for everybody. There will be no discrimination. It was less than a week ago in the change of guard ceremony of the IDF chief of staff when the defense minister said all political considerations will be kept away from the army. I will work to make sure the chief of staff can fulfill his duties, while I will ensure that outside pressure, political, legal, or any other stops with me and does not reach the IDF. It didn't take too long for the political pressure to find him. Let's bring in Olivier Rafovich, a senior security and military consultant, also a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security. Thank you so much for being with us this evening. Talk to us about, under what reasoning, legally speaking, without ideology, without religious beliefs. What are Betelis, Smoltridge and Ben-Gvir arguing here when it comes to opposing the evacuation of that illegal outpost? Good evening. First of all, we have to say that the government of Israel, prime minister, and the defense minister, Joav Galant, have decided, and Benjamin Netanyahu has backed actually the decision of Joav Galant as a defense minister, to evacuate, to make this illegal outpost out of the area, because it's illegal. So it's a very, I would say, normal decision. And we cannot forget that during this decision, there was also a visit in Israel of the assistant for security at the White House. So it was very important for Israel to show the American government, but to show also the government that the defense minister is in charge of defense affairs in the West Bank, in Jordan and Samaria. Now, what you're asking is also very important because Betelis Smoltridge is also, like you just mentioned, a minister within the Institute of Defense, which is totally a new thing. A new thing because he has actually new responsibilities, mostly concerning Jews or Jewish people living in the sea area in the West Bank. Now, for now, on the paper, it's okay. But when it comes to the field, it could be a problem. And this problem was actually a problem during this Friday issue, when the decision by Joav Galant was not accepted by Smoltridge. But because also Smoltridge has no, I would say, the tools to make this decision obsolete. So we are in a political game, in a political arena within security issues. It's very complicated. But for the time being, Netanyahu, the prime minister, is actually backing Joav Galant's decision. Well, it's Marbez Ben-Veer now demanding for the deconstruction of what he says are six illegal Palestinian structures built in Area C. Now, Area C for those unfamiliar falls under Israeli jurisdiction, whereas Area A and B under the Palestinian Authority. What's his reasoning for this? Now, we just heard in Jonathan Reygiv's report that the High Court did rule that that Bedouin village should be deconstructed five years ago. But why hasn't it happened? For many reasons. First, there are humanitarian reasons. People are living there. And besides the legal or strict legal issues, there are also humanitarian issues. There are pressures or I would say wishes from foreign government, like the American or some European countries who are asking this to the Israel, please don't do it now because it's a humanitarian issue and we are asking you not to do it. So when you decide something concerning Palestinian issues, even if it's illegal but it's not really with the human rights, the human law, Israel is actually checking very carefully every move. I believe it's a very, very right move from the Israeli side but it can be actually opposed for political reasons by parties like Itamar Ben-Veer party. So this new government is planning for the construction of several thousand housing units in other settlements that they deem as legal and they are going to give building permits for those but to the Palestinians really not so much. Those are very, very issued. As we know, will this policy continue under this new government or will it actually only get worse? I don't want to give any mark worse or better. It's not the point here. The point here, if I may, is what is the freedom of movement for any really government when you deal with the West Bank, Julian San Maria, when you have also connection with Arab states who are also asking you please don't do that or do that because for us it's very important. I'm talking about the Saudis who are now right now asking the Israeli government to solve the Palestinian issue and maybe in exchange they will sign some agreement with Israel. Maybe they will join the Abraham agreements, Abraham course, all together even when you move one house or you decide to build a new settlement or even to plan a new settlement it's high politics. It's even international politics and the Israeli government now with Netanyahu even if it's a right wing government is also a very, I would say, clever government and they will take the right decisions according to global Israeli interest and it's a very complicated issue but that's why you have Netanyahu and you have Galant deciding what they're deciding even if it's sometimes complicated on a strict political level with other members of the coalition but maybe we will see it in the future. Olivier Rafovich live in studio with us this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Well, still to come Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired ultra orthodox leader Adi Aditi from a ruling out the Israel's High Court and over 100,000 people gathering in Tel Aviv for anti-government demonstrations for the third week in a row. This is the rundown on I-24 News, stay with us. 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Join us as we meet the people changing our planet and discover the inventions shaping tomorrow. Israel Business Beat, Sundays and Wednesdays, 9.30 p.m. GMT. Thanks for staying with us, more Israeli politics now. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired ultra-orthodox leader Adi Aditi from his ministerial roles after a decision by the high court disqualified him from government positions. The ruling was decided as a result of his past criminal convictions and his promise to resign from politics as part of a plea deal for a conviction for tax fraud just last year. While firing the Shah's leader from his roles, Netanyahu vowing to find a, quote, legal way for Deity to continue serving. Netanyahu now needs to find new ministers to take over as both the health and interior minister. I-24 News Senior Correspondent Owen Alterman has more. At the weekly meeting of the Israeli cabinet on this Sunday in Jerusalem, a focus on internal Israeli politics. In the run-up to the meeting, a lot of attention focused on the leader of the ultra-orthodox Shah's party, Arya Dairy, as we turn to Israeli politics. Dairy not in his usual chair next to Netanyahu at the top of the meeting, arriving ceremoniously late, passing us journalists on his way in. But Dairy left the cabinet meeting no longer as Israel's interior or health minister. Netanyahu having fired him following the decision from Israel's Supreme Court last Wednesday. Netanyahu reading out a letter saying he did so reluctantly and that he felt that the decision was against the will of voters. Dairy responding to the firing by saying that no judicial decision will stop him from serving the public. For now, Owen Alterman, I-24 News in Jerusalem. Still with the story now, over 100,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv last night to protest against the judicial reforms proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government. It was the largest demonstration against the plan. Now demonstrations also held in Jerusalem, Haifa and Birsheba. The protest at two locations in Tel Aviv spilling into surrounding streets blocking traffic, but there were no confrontations with police as some might have feared. And this time opposition political leaders taking part in the rallies, including Yash Hattith party head and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, among others. Take a listen to Lapid last night. What you see here today is a demonstration in support of the country. People who love the country have come here today to defend its democracy, to defend its courts, to defend the idea of coexistence and of common good. There are people here who love Israel, who came to demonstrate for a democratic state. According to the values of the Declaration of Independence, and we will not give up until we win. Let's bring in Professor Yisrael Man, a Nobel laureate in economic sciences and a Professor Amaretis at the Hebrew University joining us live from Jerusalem. Thank you so much for being with us. General Justice Minister Yeriv Levin says that these judicial reforms are quite long overdue and they're aimed at strengthening democracy. But the opposition says quite the opposite, that it will weaken democracy and make the government actually more authoritarian than democratic. There have been calls to reform the judiciary in Israel for years. Give us your take on the topic. Well, there's supposed to be a separation of powers between the judiciary and the people that make the laws, the legislative part of the government. And in fact, the judiciary has taken over a march of the legislative function of the government. Even the former Supreme Court president, Barak, who introduced in the 90s all these changes, giving the judiciary power to repeal, to override laws, to declare laws invalid. And he said that the judiciary acts as a legislative body, as it can legislate. The problem is that the judiciary is very activist and it appoints itself in the government committee that appoints judges. There are three Supreme Court judges on the committee and they have a veto over the appointment of judges. So no less activist or more conservative judges, they cannot be appointed because the three out of the nine members of the committee that appoints judges are Supreme Court judges themselves and you need seven out of nine to appoint a new judge. Now it's fine to have the judiciary say it's fine to have them overrule the legislative branch of the government, as long as it's not always the same philosophy, the same ideology. A very activist ideology. If you have a sort of a balance of views on the Supreme Court, that's okay. And that's what the reform wants to bring about, that there should be a more balanced Supreme Court as far as the ideological stance is concerned. Is there a way you think to find a compromise in all this? The less in the opposition making it pretty clear they're not going to support or approve any of these reforms. The president even trying to mediate between both sides. So can the government find a compromise or a middle ground talk? I think a compromise. I'm not in favor of all the proposed changes, so some of the changes should be implemented and some of the changes should not be implemented. I was not in favor of all of them and I think there should be a compromise but it has to be remembered that now there are 64 out of 120 members of parliament that are in favor of these reforms and they form the majority and we live in a democracy. We do not live in a place where there's an oligarchy of people who consider themselves smarter and better than anybody, than everybody else. We live in a place where all citizens are equal and a clear majority of those citizens voted for the parties that are now initiating a judicial reform. And this reform is long overdue, okay? The problems did not start until the 90s of the last century and during that time Chief Justice Aaron Barak made all these changes and it's something which has to be reversed. Now we have to go back to the tradition that was nearer the beginning of the state when the Supreme Court was balanced ideologically and then it was never that activist and now it has become very, very activist, very much interfering in the also in the executive branch and carrying out of rules and making appointments. It has become very activist and that is not a good thing. I mean the Supreme Court in some sense should be just like the Supreme Court can overrule certain laws, it should be that the Supreme Court is balanced as far ideologically, it should not be slanted ideologically to one side or the other. Professor Israel Oman, a Nobel laureate in economic sciences and a professor emeritus at Hebrew University joining us live on the continued debate in the judicial reforms will certainly see how it all plays out in the coming weeks. Thank you so much for your time. My pleasure, my pleasure. Well, the two longest serving Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails were back in custody for a brief period over the weekend following their recent release. This time they were questioned on potential new charges of incitement. Palestinian cousins Mehir and Karim Yunus from North Israel both serving 40 years for killing an IDF soldier in 1980. They were given a hero's welcoming when they returned to their hometown in Araratah and on Saturday they were detained and questioned over social media posts they made supporting the Palestinians, however, they were subsequently released. And across the Middle East multiple currencies have marked new historic lows in recent days amid a continuing regional economic crisis. And despite the war in Ukraine in many countries prolonged conflict and years of mismanagement have finally caught up to some of them sending their respective currencies into a free fall. With the U.S. dollar making a roaring comeback indicating an ease in inflation worldwide, some regional currencies, however, have recorded historic lows in recent days. In Egypt, for example, the local pound has lost nearly 45% of its value over the past year after dropping more than 9% in one day this month against the U.S. dollar and Egyptians are feeling the effects. The prices change every day. Every merchant sells the goods for different prices. The problem is that we have no control over the markets. I stopped buying meat. Chicken prices have now risen. I have three children. How will I cover their needs? With salaries halved and banks restricting withdrawals, many analysts are calling Egypt the new Lebanon. There too the pound has hit a new low trading at 50,000 pounds to $1, a devaluation of 95% since 2019. But Egyptians and Lebanese are not alone. In Iraq, hundreds of soccer fans chanted to their prime minister as he attended the final game of the Arabian Gulf Cup. That's because the exchange rate of the local denar reached $1,659 to one U.S. dollar Friday, the highest price since 2004. The higher exchange rate is causing the market to be gradually paralyzed. There's no customer demand. Prices are very high. They get higher every day. In neighboring Syria, where an economic crisis triggered by the years-long civil war and western sanctions has led to the black market value of the local pound to skyrocket. And in Iran, where the government is drafting its budget for the next year, the local real reached a new low against the U.S. dollar trading at $449,000 to $1. And so with shortages in foreign currency spreading across the region, 2023 is already turning out to be one of an exacerbating economic crisis across the Middle East. Also to come, blatant displays of Islamophobia in Sweden after a right-wing party leader burned the Quran outside the Turkish embassy. And in the United States, 10 people killed in California after another mass shooting. The suspects still on the loose at this time. And in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky marking a national day of unity as intense fighting continues in several parts of the country. This is the rundown on I-24 News.