January 15, 2014
3:06 pm

Meir Schijveschuurder, who lost his parents and three of his brothers in the suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizza parlor in Jerusalem in 2001, puts on a yellow Star of David that says 'Modern Holocaust survivor in the Jewish state' at a session of the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2011, during a committee session regarding the Terror Victims Stipends Bill. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Nazi name-calling bill moves ahead over objections

Attorney general, opposition MKs say law is overreaching and ambiguous

By Spencer Ho and Times of Israel staff

January 13, 2014
1:22 am

Israeli soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade train in an urban warfare training at a training base, in southern Israel. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Major IDF base to be named after Sharon

Army chief of staff accepts recommendation to dedicate training complex in the Negev to the deceased PM

By Times of Israel staff

January 12, 2014
6:42 pm

In this Monday, December 9, 2013 photo, a Jewish man looks towards the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Simone Camilli)

Ministers reject bill to disallow talks on Jerusalem, refugees

MK Regev’s bid to force PM to seek Knesset approval for negotiations on core issues is shot down by key panel

By Times of Israel staff

January 12, 2014
11:41 am

Thousands of African migrants demonstrate outside the Knesset on January 8, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

African migrant rally canceled due to Sharon’s death

Large protest was slated to take place at Knesset Sunday; last week 10,000 gathered to demonstrate outside parliament

By Gavriel Fiske

January 11, 2014
8:26 pm

Gilad Sharon visits his mother Lily's grave, adjacent to where his father, prime minister Ariel Sharon, is to be buried, outside Sharon's farm in Havat Hashikmim, southern Israel, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Ariel Sharon to be laid to rest Monday at his Negev farm

Former prime minister to lie in state at parliament on Sunday, will be buried next day in military-state ceremony alongside wife Lily

By Times of Israel staff

January 9, 2014
4:01 pm

Migrants, matriculation and military sales

Africans pose an existential threat to Jewish state, according to Maariv; Israel sells arms to dictators, Haaretz finds

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 8, 2014
9:10 pm

Israel firm in refusing protesters’ demand for refugee status

Rebuffed by PM after mass demo at Knesset, asylum-seekers plan more rallies, UN appeals; author Grossman ‘ashamed’ at policy; Speaker bars leaders from parliament

By Spencer Ho

January 8, 2014
2:31 pm

African migrants hold posters and one holds an Eritrean flag during a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Thousands of African migrants demanded to be recognized as refugees in the protest, part of a series of events showing the migrants’ growing frustration with their fate in Israel. Police said more than 10,000 migrants rallied outside the Knesset, with hundreds more continuing to stream in to Jerusalem from around the country. The migrants have staged two other mass protests in Tel Aviv where they have demanded the right to work and better treatment from the Israeli government. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

10,000 African migrants stage demonstration in Jerusalem

Knesset speaker nixes meeting between protest leaders and MKs; Peres: We’ll act morally; round them up and deport them, says ex-interior minister

By Spencer Ho

January 8, 2014
9:52 am

Israelis buying food at the Rami Levi supermarket in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, September 03, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Food prices in Israel 25% higher than in Europe’

Knesset Research and Information Center says costs have risen more than in any other developed country since 2005

By Spencer Ho

January 7, 2014
12:08 pm

A Muslim woman at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK to push bill letting Knesset nix talks on Jerusalem, refugees

In unlikely event Miri Regev’s proposal becomes law, PM would need support of lawmakers to put core issues on the table

By Spencer Ho and Times of Israel staff

January 5, 2014
2:34 pm

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a party conference on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Hurting in the polls, Yisrael Beytenu looks to its future

Rejected by its partner Likud and plagued by waning public support, Avigdor Liberman’s party plans a triumphant comeback

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 3, 2014
7:55 am

Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of Ariel Sharon outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, January 13, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

Prime minister Ariel Sharon laid to rest at his farm in southern Israel

Sharon eulogized at Negev funeral, with Netanyahu, Biden and other dignitaries in attendance; emotional Gilad Sharon mourns father who shaped ‘the ethos of the nation’; army chief Gantz says the IDF ‘marches to the sound of your footsteps’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 2, 2014
1:28 am

The Knesset, Jerusalem (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Knesset aims to be world’s greenest parliament

Yuli Edelstein announces start of two-year project to save energy and minimize the building’s ecological footprint

By AP

December 29, 2013
5:18 pm

An unidentified Holocaust survivor sits holding his cane in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial complex in Jerusalem (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Finance Ministry to up Holocaust survivor benefits

NIS 30 million ($8.6 million) to be allocated for subsidizing medicine; plan’s implementation expected in spring 2014

By Times of Israel staff

December 26, 2013
12:20 pm

Yuli Edelstein speaking to the Knesset in November 2011

Knesset speaker: Christmas trees bring back bad memories

Yuli Edelstein tries to explain why he denied a request from a Christian Arab MK to install a festive pine in the parliament building

By Stuart Winer and Haviv Rettig Gur

Topic: Knesset

Nazi name-calling bill moves ahead over objections

Attorney general, opposition MKs say law is overreaching and ambiguous

Major IDF base to be named after Sharon

Army chief of staff accepts recommendation to dedicate training complex in the Negev to the deceased PM

Ministers reject bill to disallow talks on Jerusalem, refugees

MK Regev’s bid to force PM to seek Knesset approval for negotiations on core issues is shot down by key panel

African migrant rally canceled due to Sharon’s death

Large protest was slated to take place at Knesset Sunday; last week 10,000 gathered to demonstrate outside parliament

Ariel Sharon to be laid to rest Monday at his Negev farm

Former prime minister to lie in state at parliament on Sunday, will be buried next day in military-state ceremony alongside wife Lily

Migrants, matriculation and military sales

Africans pose an existential threat to Jewish state, according to Maariv; Israel sells arms to dictators, Haaretz finds

Israel firm in refusing protesters’ demand for refugee status

Rebuffed by PM after mass demo at Knesset, asylum-seekers plan more rallies, UN appeals; author Grossman ‘ashamed’ at policy; Speaker bars leaders from parliament

10,000 African migrants stage demonstration in Jerusalem

Knesset speaker nixes meeting between protest leaders and MKs; Peres: We’ll act morally; round them up and deport them, says ex-interior minister

‘Food prices in Israel 25% higher than in Europe’

Knesset Research and Information Center says costs have risen more than in any other developed country since 2005

MK to push bill letting Knesset nix talks on Jerusalem, refugees

In unlikely event Miri Regev’s proposal becomes law, PM would need support of lawmakers to put core issues on the table

Hurting in the polls, Yisrael Beytenu looks to its future

Rejected by its partner Likud and plagued by waning public support, Avigdor Liberman’s party plans a triumphant comeback

Prime minister Ariel Sharon laid to rest at his farm in southern Israel

Sharon eulogized at Negev funeral, with Netanyahu, Biden and other dignitaries in attendance; emotional Gilad Sharon mourns father who shaped ‘the ethos of the nation’; army chief Gantz says the IDF ‘marches to the sound of your footsteps’

Knesset aims to be world’s greenest parliament

Yuli Edelstein announces start of two-year project to save energy and minimize the building’s ecological footprint

Finance Ministry to up Holocaust survivor benefits

NIS 30 million ($8.6 million) to be allocated for subsidizing medicine; plan’s implementation expected in spring 2014

Knesset speaker: Christmas trees bring back bad memories

Yuli Edelstein tries to explain why he denied a request from a Christian Arab MK to install a festive pine in the parliament building

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