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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, speaks to IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
March 10, 2018, 6:42 pm
Defense minister vows no compromise in coalition crisis over military draft law
Netanyahu to meet later with ultra-Orthodox lawmakers in attempt to resolve dispute that threatens to bring down government
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party, left, at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
March 9, 2018, 6:59 pm
Netanyahu returns to Israel to deal with IDF draft law coalition crisis
Prime minister to meet ultra-Orthodox MKs, coalition heads Saturday night in bid to avert early elections
By TOI staff
Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Aqal, a Palestinian assailant killed after carrying out a stabbing attack on a Border Police officer, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Ula on December 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Hazem Bader)
March 8, 2018, 12:54 am
Knesset passes law allowing police to hold terrorists’ bodies
Legislation, which came in response to High Court ruling, permits authorities to delay burials over fears funerals could prompt further violence
By TOI staff
Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli speaks during a Knesset plenary session on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 27, 2018, 8:40 am
Bill that could bar left-wing groups from schools passes first reading
'Breaking the Silence law' would empower education minister to ban NGOs 'that work to damage the IDF' from educational institutions
By Alexander Fulbright
Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat share a laugh at the King David Hotel on November 19, 1977 (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO archive)
February 25, 2018, 5:55 pm
War or peace? IDF brass debated the meaning of Sadat’s 1977 visit to Israel
Newly released transcripts from meeting after Egyptian leader's historic speech in the Knesset show generals were split on its significance
By Judah Ari Gross
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks in the Knesset on February 21, 2018. (Screen capture: Knesset Channel)
February 21, 2018, 9:26 pm
Minister: Likud poll shows public doesn’t buy ‘lies’ against Netanyahu
In Knesset speech, Miri Regev attacks media in her defense of prime minister, while other Likud ministers keep mum
By TOI staff
Ariel University in the West Bank (photo credit: CC-BY Michael Jacobson/Wikipedia)
February 14, 2018, 1:40 pm
Settlers hail passing of law regulating West Bank universities
Ariel mayor praises legislation allowing settlement's university to advance plans to establish a medical school school funded by Netanyahu supporter Sheldon Adelson
By Jacob Magid
Disabled activists protesting in central Jerusalem on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 13, 2018, 1:59 am
Knesset raises disability benefits as protesters push for bigger boost
Measure increasing monthly stipend by several hundred shekels at cost of NIS 4.3 billion passes 84-0; demonstrators urge lawmakers to vote against bill, saying it is too small
By TOI staff
Likud MK Oren Hazan in Jerusalem on September 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 2, 2018, 4:01 pm
Settler leaders join condemnation of booted Likud MK
16 West Bank council chiefs sign a letter titled 'Oren Hazan, Enough!' after suspended legislator calls Knesset speaker 'Stalin'
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Likud MK Oren Hazan speaking during a Knesset plenary session, November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 2:30 pm
Disorderly, dysfunctional: The Knesset is Oren Hazan
At a recent committee meeting, one heckling MK after another was expelled from the room
By Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Likud MK Oren Hazan, center, in Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 31, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 11:48 pm
Banned for insulting his peers, Likud MK calls Knesset speaker ‘Stalin’
Oren Hazan uses his last address to plenum before 6-month expulsion to attack Yuli Edelstein, a former prisoner of Zion
By Stuart Winer
The Israeli flag flutters in front of the Old City of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock on December 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas)
January 30, 2018, 12:36 pm
Bill requiring Israeli flag at public events advances in Knesset
Legislation would level a $4,200 fine on organizers who fail to feature the banner at events attended by a lawmaker
By Michael Bachner
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 29, 2018, 9:53 pm
Lawmaker calls Likud MK ‘friend of Nazis’ in row over migrant deportation
Tamar Zandberg of the left-wing Meretz party ejected from heated Knesset committee discussion
By Michael Bachner
Palestinians carry the corpses of terrorists through the streets of Hebron during a massive funeral march in the West Bank, October 31, 2015. (Flash90)
January 24, 2018, 5:25 pm
Bill allowing Israel to hold terrorists’ bodies for leverage clears first hurdle
Knesset gives preliminary approval to law allowing police to demand family's okay for funeral restrictions aimed at preventing encouragement of more terror attacks
By Michael Bachner and Stuart Winer
View of the a mosque in the Old City of Acre, in Northern Israel on October 24, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 24, 2018, 9:54 am
Knesset to advance bid to muffle Muslim call to prayer
Committee will prepare two versions of controversial 'muezzin bill,' which has provoked indignation among Arabs
By Michael Bachner
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