April 8, 2014
2:20 am

A mother and her daughter stand inside a food distribution center for the needy, in Jerusalem on March 7, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Food insecurity affects 900,000 Israelis, report finds

State Comptroller blames gov’t for over-reliance on charitable groups to feed the hungry; 50% of Arab population can’t meet nutritional needs

By Stuart Winer

March 10, 2014
9:26 pm

Hadash MKs during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, November 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

For sole Jewish-Arab party, new law may be a death blow

But some Arab MKs view Governance Bill, raising electoral threshold to 3.25 percent, as a possible blessing in disguise

By Elhanan Miller

March 7, 2014
12:17 pm

Illustrative photo of the Knesset plenum in session, July 29, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset schedules marathon votes next week on key bills

In just four days, lawmakers to debate and cast final votes on Haredi draft, electoral threshold, peace referendum

By Haviv Rettig Gur

February 4, 2014
9:39 am

Western Galilee view, with the town of Carmiel in the foreground (photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Government denies plans to ‘Judaize’ the Galilee

Knesset panel told of work in progress for a new Druse village and Arab town

By Times of Israel staff

January 22, 2014
12:24 pm

MK Miri Regev (photo credit: Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

MK seeking to expel migrants wants more foreign workers

Miri Regev, who called African asylum-seekers a ‘cancer,’ says that without 34,000 new laborers, housing reforms will stall

By Lazar Berman

December 26, 2013
9:58 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman at a meeting in the Knesset, on November 25, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Liberman agree on electoral threshold hike

Opposition MK says bill would force Arab parties out of Knesset

By Stuart Winer

December 17, 2013
4:56 pm

Immigration officials arrest Sudanese migrants in front of the Knesset building in Jerusalem, Monday, December 17, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Migrants forcibly evicted by police after protest

250 African demonstrators who gathered at PMO bused from capital after fleeing ‘open’ detention facility and spending night in kibbutz shelter

By Yifa Yaakov

December 17, 2013
11:15 am

Sudanese refugees march toward Jerusalem in protest of the new Holot detention center for illegal migrants on Monday, December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protesting migrants make way to Jerusalem with police escort

Some 100 demonstrators being bused to capital after fleeing ‘open’ detention facility and spending night in kibbutz shelter

By Yifa Yaakov

December 16, 2013
9:49 am

African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

African migrants flee new Holot detention center

Hundreds of demonstrators, prevented from boarding buses to Jerusalem, begin walk to capital to protest their detention

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman

December 8, 2013
10:38 am

Hadash MK Dov Khenin speaking in the Knesset on July 15, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cabinet committee rejects same-sex housing benefits law

Gay couples already enjoy married mortgage benefit due to regulations; ministers deny government support for making it law

By Lazar Berman

November 14, 2013
5:52 am

Illustrative photo of a Bedouin village in the Negev, February 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Heated debate in Knesset over Bedouin resettlement

Balad MK calls proposed legislation a ‘transfer plan’; Jewish Home MKs say Bedouin communities have been uncooperative

By Adiv Sterman

July 31, 2013
10:45 pm

MK Ahmed Tibi standing with his back to the plenum in protest of the electoral reform bill. (photo credit: Flash90)

Electoral reform bill moves forward, but PM to reconsider support

Arab MKs stage dramatic silent protest in Knesset plenum over law that would raise electoral threshold beyond the current showing of any Arab party

By Haviv Rettig Gur

July 29, 2013
3:24 am

Ahmad Tibi addresses the Knesset on May 21, 2012. Tibi and other members of the opposition came out strongly against the proposal to raise the Knesset electoral threshold from 2 to 4 percent. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Knesset committee votes to raise electoral threshold to 4%

Opposition’s Arab and ultra-Orthodox parties attack proposal, saying it’s hypocritical and anti-democratic

By Michal Shmulovich and Asher Zeiger

May 6, 2013
1:54 pm

MK Nitzan Horovitz of Meretz. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Meretz MK announces run for Tel Aviv mayor

Nitzan Horowitz will compete against incumbent Ron Huldai, who seeks a fourth term

By Gavriel Fiske

April 22, 2013
12:28 pm

Meretz MK said set to run for mayor of Tel Aviv

Nitzan Horowitz to compete against incumbent Ron Huldai, Hadash parliamentarian Dov Khenin, and social activist Daphni Leef

By Aaron Kalman

Topic: Dov Khenin