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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri (L), and National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben Shabat (R), at a press conference announcing the new agreement for handling asylum seekers and illegal African migrants in Israel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 12:52 am
Opposition leaders lambaste ‘cowardly’ Netanyahu after U-turn on migrant deal
After he suspended new resettlement agreement for African asylum seekers that would have given 16,250 temporary residency, lawmakers accuse PM of caving to right-wing pressure
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement with the UN on African asylum seekers in Israel at a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on April 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 2, 2018, 11:26 pm
Hours after announcing it, Netanyahu suspends deal to let 16,000 migrants stay
Buckling under criticism, PM says he hears 'residents of south Tel Aviv,' will reexamine agreement only after consultations with them and interior minister
By TOI staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks with the press ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
April 2, 2018, 7:40 pm
Bennett: Migrant deal will turn Israel into ‘paradise for infiltrators’
Education minister blasts agreement as a 'complete capitulation to false campaign' against plan to deport asylum seekers
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press in his Jerusalem office on April 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
April 2, 2018, 5:57 pm
Netanyahu: 16,250 migrants to resettle in ‘developed countries,’ rest will stay
PM says 'political difficulties' prevented intended deportation to Uganda and Rwanda, brought about new deal with UN; vows to rehabilitate south Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg seen in the Israeli parliament on October 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 25, 2018, 9:02 pm
New Meretz leader apologizes for using anti-leftist adviser, but denies lying
Tamar Zandberg says she made an 'error in judgement' by taking advice from divisive campaigner Moshe Klughaft
By Raoul Wootliff
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg attends a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem about public transportation on Shabbat on September 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2018, 12:36 pm
Comptroller to probe new Meretz leader for consulting firebrand adviser
Amid mounting criticism, Tamar Zandberg says 'it may have been a mistake' to contact Moshe Klughaft during campaign
By Michael Bachner
MK Tamar Zandberg, the new elected leader of Meretz party on March 22, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 25, 2018, 1:52 am
New Meretz leader consulted with adviser behind fierce anti-left campaigns
Apparently caught in a lie after denying ties to ex-Jewish Home strategist Moshe Klughaft, Tamar Zandberg says he initiated contact, gave advice in unofficial capacity
By Marissa Newman
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 24, 2018, 5:10 pm
New Meretz leader says party better suited than Labor to lead left
Tamar Zandberg accuses Avi Gabbay's party of 'zigzagging and apologizing for its positions,' while Meretz exhibits 'ideological clarity and loyalty to its values'
By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg casts her vote at a polling station in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2018, 12:38 am
Tamar Zandberg crowned new Meretz leader after resounding primary win
Veteran MK promises to lead a 'powerful left-wing force,' suggests party could join government with hawkish Yisrael Beytenu
By Raoul Wootliff
​Meretz knesset member Tamar Zandberg during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, a controversial bill that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Israeli parliament on December 7, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
March 22, 2018, 12:29 pm
Party veteran, ex-Peace Now head face off in Meretz leadership race
Candidates Zandberg and Buskila hope first-ever open primary will mark new beginning for languishing left-wing movement
By Raoul Wootliff
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 17, 2018, 8:42 am
Would-be Meretz leader: I’ll return money if my donor sold weapons to Angola
Tamar Zandberg, a vocal opponent of arms sales to countries with poor human rights records, forced to explain NIS 5,000 donation
By TOI staff
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid addresses the Knesset plenum on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 13, 2018, 11:38 pm
Opposition slams compromise deal aimed at averting snap poll
MKs express disappointment that early elections avoided; Lapid accuses Netanyahu's government of betraying IDF soldiers
By Tamar Pileggi
Meretz head Zahava Galon and Meretz MK Ilan Gilon during a party meeting at the Knesset on November 25, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 28, 2018, 1:13 pm
Meretz old guard bows out of party leadership race
Leader Zehava Galon drops candidacy to make way for new blood; Ilan Gilon says health preventing him from pursuing campaign
By Marissa Newman
Director general of Peace Now Avi Buskila speaks during a rally in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 3:48 pm
Settlement watchdog head resigns to run for Meretz leadership
Peace Now's Avi Buskila set to announce candidacy for left-wing party; rival MK Zandberg gets support from former leader
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Meretz party chairwoman Zehava Galon seen during a finance committee meeting atthe Knesset on September 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 13, 2018, 3:20 pm
Galon calls on disgruntled Labor members to defect
Meretz head says she in talks with unnamed Labor members in bid to 'build up the left' as Labor leader Avi Gabbay slants his party rightward
By TOI staff
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