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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset on May 08, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 8, 2017, 6:13 pm
Shrugging off criticism, PM backs Jewish state bill
Despite opponents saying bill discriminates against Arab minority, Netanyahu says 'no contradiction' between proposed legislation and equal rights in Israel
By Raoul Wootliff
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein during a plenary session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 8, 2017, 5:36 pm
Knesset aides say unprepared MKs fail to oversee government
As Israel's legislature returns from recess, parliamentary assistants offer insider insights into the work of its lawmakers
By Raoul Wootliff
Aerial view of Masada (Andrew Shiva/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
May 6, 2017, 3:57 am
When Donald Trump wanted to hold Miss Universe pageant at Masada
US president reportedly believed that having a beauty contest at palace built by Judean king Herod would be a good PR opportunity
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A view of the new television studios of the Knesset Channel, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem. Jan 19, 2011. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
May 4, 2017, 4:36 pm
Right-leaning Channel 20 wins rights to broadcast Knesset TV
Station to begin transmissions of parliament sessions in July after beating out competitors in tender
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, right, with Sagiv Lugasi, winner of the annual International Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theater, May 2, 2017. (Shlomi Amsalem)
May 4, 2017, 3:31 am
Why it’s a big deal that a secular student won Israel’s Bible contest
Many educators lament that too many non religious Israelis know too little about the Book, in part because they identify its study with a political culture they eschew
By Ben Sales
View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2017, 6:31 am
Knesset finalizes delay of new broadcaster launch
Two-week postponement till May 15 is to allow lawmakers to draft legislation gutting the corporation's news department
By Marissa Newman and TOI staff
View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 25, 2017, 4:01 pm
Knesset gives initial okay to delay new broadcaster launch
Parliament to finalize two-week postponement Wednesday, allowing government to ready legislation to gut corporation's news department
By Marissa Newman
The memorial ceremony held on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 24, 2017, 5:09 pm
50 Holocaust survivors have served in Knesset
One in 20 Israeli parliamentarians, 46 men and 4 women, lived through the Nazi onslaught; 5 served as cabinet ministers
By TOI staff
An Israeli girl poses with a mock marijuana joint in Jerusalem on April 20, 2017 during a rally at the Rose Garden, to celebrate 420 and to express their defiance of current laws. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
April 20, 2017, 9:29 pm
Israelis hold mass protest pot smoke outside Knesset
Hundreds light up in Rose Garden, celebrating cannabis decriminalization and hoping for legalization at '420' event
By Jonah Mandel
The father of a fallen soldier reacts at the State Control committee meeting in the Israeli parliament during a discussion about the Operation Protective Edge report, on April 19, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2017, 1:39 pm
War and peace
A battle in the Knesset between parents of fallen soldiers and lawmakers outrages the press, and the secular celebrate open markets on Saturday
By Ilan Ben Zion
The Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90)
April 12, 2017, 7:49 am
Chilean anti-Israel activist turned away at West Bank border crossing
Head of the Palestinian Federation in Chile barred over alleged efforts to promote boycott of Jewish state
By TOI staff
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv attends a ceremony for a new Torah scroll brought to the synagogue of the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 9, 2015.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2017, 3:41 pm
Former chief rabbi: What’s happening in Syria is a holocaust
A Holocaust survivor himself, Yisrael Meir Lau calls for emergency Knesset session; Yad Vashem expresses 'deep concern' over 'carnage'
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian man walks atop the rubble of a house, demolished by Israeli army bulldozers, in the village of Qalandia, between the West Bank town of Ramallah and East Jerusalem, July 26, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
April 5, 2017, 11:35 pm
New legislation ups sanctions for illegal construction
Critics say law will mainly target Arab Israelis, who have a hard time getting building permits
By AFP and TOI staff
Activists, among them Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova (second from right), holding signs and wearing wedding veils as they protest for the right to civil marriage in front of the Knesset in Jeruslaem on November 2, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 5, 2017, 3:20 am
MK weds in Seychelles, slams lack of civil marriage in Israel
Zionist Union lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova gets hitched on Indian Ocean island, criticizes Rabbinate's 'monopoly on marriage'
By TOI staff
In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 photo Israeli lawmakers, from the left, Mickey Levy (Yesh Atid), Rachel Azaria (Kulanu) and Tali Ploskov (Kulanu) laugh during an interview with a reporter from The Associated Press, in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP)
March 31, 2017, 6:45 pm
Israeli lawmakers reach out to US Jews on anti-Semitism
MKs from Likud, Kulanu, Yesh Atid and Zionist Union meet with Massachusetts governor, representatives of Jewish community in Boston
By Bob Salsberg
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