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Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit speaks during a conference he organized in Tel Aviv on May 22, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 11, 2016, 2:29 pm
‘Israeli Trump’ calls for court to order probe of Netanyahu
In strident video, Erel Margalit accuses PM of corruption over ThyssenKrupp scandals and of using state as his 'ATM'
By TOI staff
Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)
November 5, 2016, 8:22 pm
Fury on left as coalition chair says Rabin murder ‘not political’
'This was politically motivated assassination in every way,' retorts Labor's Hilik Bar after Bitan's comments hours before Tel Aviv memorial to slain PM
By TOI staff
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog speaks at a rally marking 21 years since the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on November 5, 2016. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 5, 2016, 8:05 pm
Herzog slams PM at Rabin rally: No more talk of unity government, we have to save the state
As tens of thousands turn out to mark 21 years since late leader's assassination, Livni and Galon also hit out at Netanyahu after his coalition chairman denies the murder was political
By TOI staff and Video by Iacopo Luzi
Coalition chairman David Bitan during a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset on July 11, 2016 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 5, 2016, 2:44 pm
Coalition chairman: Rabin’s murder was ‘not political’
Hours before Tel Aviv gathering memorializing PM slain in 1995, Likud MK David Bitan criticizes annual 'left-wing rally'
By TOI staff
From right to left, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Miri Aloni, foreign minister Shimon Peres and Knesset speaker Shevah Weiss sing a 'Song for Peace' at the end of a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday, November 4, 1995. Rabin was assassinated as he left the rally minutes later. (AP photo)
November 5, 2016, 2:24 pm
Thousands expected at 21st Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv
Labor Party stepped in after event was nearly cancelled over lack of funds; Meretz leader Galon among the speakers
By TOI staff
Thousands attend a rally on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, marking 18 years since the assassination of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. October 12, 2013. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
October 30, 2016, 10:01 pm
After organizers cancel, Labor steps in to save Rabin rally
Herzog vows annual memorial for party's slain leader will go ahead, hours after planners say they cannot afford to fund event
By TOI staff
Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit. (Courtesy)
October 9, 2016, 6:30 am
In US, entrepreneurial MK promotes plan he hopes will help make him PM one day
By boosting Israeli-Arab economic ties, Zionist Union's Erel Margalit believes he can 'change the discourse' of peacemaking
By Eric Cortellessa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with opposition leader Isaac Herzog during a special plenum session marking the 50th anniversary of the Knesset, January 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 5, 2016, 2:46 pm
Same stories, different year
News that bubbled below the surfeit of Peres coverage last week -- such as unity talks, Aleppo and US elections -- is finally able to see the light after a Rosh Hashanah break
By Joshua Davidovich
Then-prime minister Shimon Peres meets with the Nahal Brigade on October 16, 1986. (Gil Ne'eh/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
September 28, 2016, 5:32 pm
Peres, a man of peace, made Israel a military powerhouse
By bringing fighter jets and, allegedly, nuclear weapons to the Jewish state, Shimon Peres gave the tiny country the tools to survive
By Judah Ari Gross
Former Israeli president Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 6:48 am
Israeli politicians mourn loss of ‘the head of a family’
Netanyahu to hold special cabinet session on Peres's death; Rivlin cuts short state visit to Ukraine
By TOI staff
President Shimon Peres in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 5:19 am
Beloved abroad, polarizing at home, Peres was the peace-making face of Israel
Ultimately respected as Israel's elder statesman, Peres -- who was prime minister and president but never won a popular vote -- enjoyed a uniquely lengthy and turbulent political career
By Raphael Ahren
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, after a speech at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis)
September 11, 2016, 6:42 am
UK Labour’s Corbyn turns down Herzog invite to Yad Vashem
Leader of opposition party facing accusations of rampant anti-Semitism reportedly plans to send his deputy or general secretary to Holocaust museum in his stead
By TOI staff
Knesset member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (photo credit: Flash90)
August 29, 2016, 5:53 pm
Arab press (mostly) yawns at death of Ben-Eliezer
Most highlight his friendship with Mubarak, corruption scandal; websites affiliated with terror groups recall war-crime allegation
By TOI staff
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 28, 2016, 6:19 pm
Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80
Ex-general and Labor Party veteran passes away at Tel Aviv hospital; decades-long career ended in December 2014 with allegations of corruption
By TOI staff
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 26, 2016, 3:13 pm
Ex-minister Ben-Eliezer hospitalized for heart problem
Former Labor leader in stable condition at Assaf Harofeh hospital; was indicted in absentia on multiple graft charges last year
By TOI staff
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