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Topic: Meir Sheetrit

June 18, 2013
12:43 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas promotes the Arab Peace Initiative during a speech at at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan, May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Young)

Why is Israel so afraid of the Arab Peace Initiative?

It promises full diplomatic ties with the Muslim world, including Iran. It’s the ‘best idea ever,’ says an ex-Likud minister. So why does the government reject the Arab world’s ostensible path to peace?

By Raphael Ahren

April 3, 2013
9:28 pm

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris in 2008 (photo credit: Thaer Ganaim/Flash90)

‘Israel’s condescending Ashkenazi leaders preventing peace deal’

Hatnua’s Meir Sheetrit says cultural gap is the main obstacle to agreement; calls Arab Peace Initiative ‘best idea ever’

By Times of Israel staff

January 23, 2013
5:16 pm

Knesset members stand during a ceremony marking 17 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on October 28, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

In the next Knesset, a radical case of musical chairs

It’s out with the old — more than 50 of them — and in with the new

By Gabe Fisher

December 3, 2012
10:54 pm

Yisrael Hasson objects to his fellow legislators' planned break off from Kadima and joining of Tzipi Livni's Hatnua, Monday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset gives okay for Kadima MKs to join Livni’s new party

Legislators to bring millions in public funding to former minister

By Aaron Kalman

December 2, 2012
3:58 pm

Kadima MKs Meir Sheetrit, left, and Yoel Hasson at a press conference in July 2009, in which they blasted Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's first 100 days in office. J(photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90).

Kadima members defect en masse to new Livni party

Former minister Sheetrit seventh member to bolt Mofaz for the newly formed Hatnua

By Asher Zeiger

November 19, 2012
10:36 pm

Ehud Barak, in black, meeting with defense brass over Operation Pillar of Defense on Monday. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Much talk, but Day 6 of Gaza operation ends with no game changer

Netanyahu says he is ready to send in the troops by end of Tuesday if Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel haven’t halted by then

By Raphael Ahren

November 6, 2012
11:26 am

Bnei Menashe immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport from India in 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Immigration of ‘lost tribe’ to resume after 5 years

1,700 members of Bnei Menashe community with possible Jewish roots already in the country; some 7,000-9,000 remain in India and Burma

By Gabe Fisher

November 5, 2012
3:34 pm

Kadima MK Meir Sheetrit holds a press conference at the Knesset in February (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Senior Kadima member considers quitting for Pensioners’ party

Meir Sheetrit could join a growing list of MKs who are jumping ship

By Stuart Winer

September 30, 2012
8:44 am

Ron Lauder (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli strike on Iran without US would be a ‘disaster,’ World Jewish Congress president says

Ron Lauder warns that a unilateral operation would isolate Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 12, 2012
3:55 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House, May 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)

Why Obama and Netanyahu must meet this month

The president is asking the prime minister to trust him to thwart Iran, and therefore to let Israel’s window of opportunity for military action close. Whatever their differences, the least Obama can do is make time to give Netanyahu assurances in person

By David Horovitz

September 12, 2012
10:07 am

Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Silvan Shalom tops list of wealthiest Israeli politicians, with NIS 150 million

Ehud Barak second on Forbes list, with NIS 56 million; Netanyahu sixth

By Times of Israel staff

July 2, 2012
11:51 pm

Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz leads a party meeting at the Knesset on Monday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mofaz, ruling out compromise on national service, refuses to meet with Netanyahu

PM seeks to head off coalition crisis, having dismantled Knesset panel formulating new draft law; Shas shows some flexibility; Yisrael Beytenu, United Torah Judaism dig their heels in

By Joshua Davidovich and Sam Ser

March 26, 2012
11:12 pm

Tzipi Livni with Shaul Mofaz in the Knesset in October (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Livni hopes for vindication, but Mofaz victory Tuesday could end her political career

The woman who almost became prime minister, twice, faces neck-and-neck battle to retain opposition leadership

By Raphael Ahren

March 22, 2012
7:06 pm

MK Avi Dichter in February (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Dichter pulls out of Kadima leadership race, supports Mofaz

Livni blames party’s drop in polls on Mofaz

By Asher Zeiger

February 21, 2012
10:55 am

A sample biometric 'smart card' (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash 90)

Biometric database faces another hurdle

Will Israelis be safer, or in greater danger, if a law authorizing the government to keep track of fingerprints, face patterns, retina scans, and other biological information is finally implemented?

By David Shamah