March 5, 2014
3:05 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: We have Hamas representatives in Knesset

Alluding to Arab MKs in a Facebook post, foreign minister says his party will strive to ‘make them illegal’

By JTA

March 3, 2014
3:10 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein speak in South Africa in December, 2013. (photo credit: courtesy/Knesset)

Britain’s Cameron to address Knesset March 12

Visit will be UK prime minister’s first since he was elected in 2010

By Spencer Ho

February 26, 2014
5:16 pm

A masked Palestinian youth near the Dome of the Rock mosque during clashes with Israeli riot police following Friday prayers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound on September 6, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Jordan’s parliament votes to expel Israeli ambassador

MPs call on cabinet to end ‘Israel’s schemes’ on Temple Mount; non-binding decision unlikely to be adopted

By AFP

February 26, 2014
1:27 am

Illustrative image of a pregnancy (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Israeli group tries to prevent, not outlaw abortion

Efrat, whose leader describes himself as pro-choice, has never protested outside a gynecological clinic, nor does it plan to

By Ben Sales

February 24, 2014
6:39 pm

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, February 24, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Finance minister says government has failed Arabs

Yair Lapid cites bad education and a lack of transportation as impediments to Israeli Arabs’ prosperity

By Elhanan Miller

February 19, 2014
11:42 pm

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz meeting in Brussels, February 19, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Naftali Bennett's office)

After walkout, Bennett makes amends with EU president Schulz

Jewish Home chairman extends olive branch just a week after critiquing European Parliament head’s Knesset address

By Aron Dónzis

February 17, 2014
8:29 pm

The Knesset plenum, as seen from the speaker's podium via Google Street View. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Google trains Street View on Knesset

Internet users can now visit Israel’s parliament virtually, including peering into MKs’ offices and sitting in the speaker’s chair

By Lazar Berman

February 16, 2014
8:29 pm

Knesset Members from Meretz and party activists gather outside the Knesset in Jerusalem before the voting on the state budget, June 17, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Meretz kicks off campaign to recruit new members

Dovish party looks to expand its base and increase its showing in future elections

By Adiv Sterman

February 12, 2014
7:07 pm

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz adressess the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on February 12, 2014. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Full text of European Parliament president’s speech to Knesset

The speech that triggered a walk out: Martin Schulz addresses MKs in Jerusalem during official state visit to the region

February 11, 2014
9:53 am

A little boy puts a hand on his grandfather's arm near his concentration camp prisoner number tattoo, in Jerusalem on May 24, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State expands Holocaust survivor benefit eligibility

18,500 Israelis, recognized as Holocaust survivors but not poor enough to qualify in the past, to receive survivor grants

By Gavriel Fiske

February 6, 2014
8:00 am

Illustrative photo of a wedding (Shutterstock via JTA)

Justice Ministry seeks automatic prenups

Minister Tzipi Livni suggests marriage registrars be required to present agreement in order to reduce ‘get’ refusal

By Adiv Sterman

February 5, 2014
8:27 pm

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein oversees a plenum session in March, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset investigation: 50 laws not implemented

Speaker decries ministries’ failure to apply legislation, including urgent laws helping special needs children, disabled employees

By Marissa Newman

February 5, 2014
1:21 pm

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (R) with soldiers during his visit to a training exercise of the Paratroopers Brigade in the Golan Heights, on October 2, 2013. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Knesset committee urges boost to defense budget

MKs approve 2014 budget but say government must add NIS 750 million to avoid damaging training programs

By Itamar Sharon

February 4, 2014
1:54 pm

Yemenite Jews walking to Aden, the site of a reception camp, ahead of their emigration to Israel, 1949. (photo credit: Kluger Zoltan/Israeli National Photo Archive/public domain)

Jewish ‘refugee day’ proposal advances in Knesset

‘This story touches half the residents of Israel, but is almost unknown,’ explains Morocco-born MK Shimon Ohayon

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

Topic: Knesset