July 30, 2014
5:50 am

Yair Lapid (center), and Tzipi Livni (right), with Moshe Ya'alon (left) at a Cabinet meeting last year. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

The war of the doves

As Israel’s security cabinet steers the battle against Hamas, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid are proving solidly supportive of Netanyahu — because they want to see Abbas rehabilitated

By Haviv Rettig Gur

May 22, 2014
3:35 pm

Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz (photo credit: Flash90)

Livni must quit and proclaim that PM doomed the talks, says Meretz MK

‘She’s now a fig leaf,’ says Nitzan Horowitz about Israel’s chief negotiator, while Abbas seeks a reconciliation ‘that would cement our presence in this land’

By David Horovitz and Times of Israel staff

April 16, 2014
8:10 pm

President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Israeli parliament members in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 16, 2014. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas tells MKs he’s waiting for probe before condemning shooting

PA chief said to warn Labor and Meretz politicians in Ramallah that all agreements with Israel null and void if peace talks end

By Stuart Winer

April 12, 2014
3:26 pm

Meretz leader MK Zahava Gal-on, June 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel is led by three wicked sons, laments left-wing leader

Meretz’s Zahava Gal-On likens PM, Liberman, Bennett, Lapid to Haggadah’s 4 brothers — except three are wicked and ‘one doesn’t know how to quit’

By Itamar Sharon and Times of Israel staff

March 15, 2014
11:50 pm

Labor MK Moshe Mizrahi dressed in a Sgt. Pepper-esque outfit in a Peace Now video (screen capture: YouTube)

Left-wing MKs lampoon right in George Harrison parody

In song titled ‘How Fun to Be Right-Wing,’ Peace Now pans government’s lavish support for settlements, criticism of Kerry

By Times of Israel staff

January 24, 2014
2:40 pm

Shulamit Aloni (photo credit: CC BY-SA Orrling, Wikimedia Commons)

Former minister Shulamit Aloni dies at 85

Meretz party founding member and Israel Prize laureate fought in Palmach in her youth, and for civil rights as a politician

By AFP

January 24, 2014
12:53 pm

Former minister Shulamit Aloni dies at 85

Meretz party founding member and Israel Prize laureate fought in Palmach in her youth, and for civil rights as a politician

By Lazar Berman

January 23, 2014
7:18 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman wave to supporters at the Likud-Beytenu's post-elections party in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu jumps 15 seats in new poll

Support for ruling alliance between Netanyahu- and Liberman-led parties bounces back to better-than-2009 levels, while Yesh Atid and Jewish Home hemorrhage

By Stephan Miller

November 16, 2013
2:57 pm

Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri, a former head of the Shin Bet. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Minister says coalition will collapse over peace talks ‘sooner or later’

Opposition MKs lash out at PM for public ‘slap in the face of America’ over possible nuclear deal with Iran

By Michal Shmulovich

November 7, 2013
12:52 am

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein attends a book launch at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Dismissing critics, Weinstein says ‘I did my duty’

Under fire from the left following Liberman’s acquittal, attorney general responds to those who say he dropped the ball

By Spencer Ho

November 6, 2013
2:11 pm

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (photo credit: Ilia Yefimovich/Flash90)

Prosecutor comes under fire after Liberman acquital

Right wing criticizes ‘delay of justice,’ opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich calls for state to appeal

By Spencer Ho

October 30, 2013
7:31 pm

An illustrative photo of marriage. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Committee passes bill to raise marriage age to 18

Knesset panel rejects proposal to allow underage marriages with approval from High Rabbinical Court and social worker

By Spencer Ho

October 23, 2013
7:47 am

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat celebrates with supporters after winning a hard-fought reelection race, Wednesday, October 23, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After tough campaign, Barkat beats Lion to remain Jerusalem mayor

Incumbents returned in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beit Shemesh and nearly everywhere else; Likud-Beytenu garners just one seat on capital’s council

By Yoel Goldman

October 13, 2013
9:12 pm

A medical marijuana plant (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Knesset members admit to pot use

After Yachimovich comes clean, at least 11 lawmakers from the center-left say they, too, tried soft drugs

By Lazar Berman

September 15, 2013
5:03 pm

An Arab woman casts her vote in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Ghosh, 2009 (photo credit: Flash90/Nati Shohat)

Jerusalem councilman lobbies for Arab vote

Voting this October is ‘a matter of life and death’ for Arabs in the city, says Meretz’s Meir Margalit

By Elhanan Miller

Topic: Meretz party

The war of the doves

As Israel’s security cabinet steers the battle against Hamas, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid are proving solidly supportive of Netanyahu — because they want to see Abbas rehabilitated

Livni must quit and proclaim that PM doomed the talks, says Meretz MK

‘She’s now a fig leaf,’ says Nitzan Horowitz about Israel’s chief negotiator, while Abbas seeks a reconciliation ‘that would cement our presence in this land’

Abbas tells MKs he’s waiting for probe before condemning shooting

PA chief said to warn Labor and Meretz politicians in Ramallah that all agreements with Israel null and void if peace talks end

Israel is led by three wicked sons, laments left-wing leader

Meretz’s Zahava Gal-On likens PM, Liberman, Bennett, Lapid to Haggadah’s 4 brothers — except three are wicked and ‘one doesn’t know how to quit’

Left-wing MKs lampoon right in George Harrison parody

In song titled ‘How Fun to Be Right-Wing,’ Peace Now pans government’s lavish support for settlements, criticism of Kerry

Former minister Shulamit Aloni dies at 85

Meretz party founding member and Israel Prize laureate fought in Palmach in her youth, and for civil rights as a politician

Former minister Shulamit Aloni dies at 85

Meretz party founding member and Israel Prize laureate fought in Palmach in her youth, and for civil rights as a politician

Likud-Beytenu jumps 15 seats in new poll

Support for ruling alliance between Netanyahu- and Liberman-led parties bounces back to better-than-2009 levels, while Yesh Atid and Jewish Home hemorrhage

Minister says coalition will collapse over peace talks ‘sooner or later’

Opposition MKs lash out at PM for public ‘slap in the face of America’ over possible nuclear deal with Iran

Dismissing critics, Weinstein says ‘I did my duty’

Under fire from the left following Liberman’s acquittal, attorney general responds to those who say he dropped the ball

Prosecutor comes under fire after Liberman acquital

Right wing criticizes ‘delay of justice,’ opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich calls for state to appeal

Committee passes bill to raise marriage age to 18

Knesset panel rejects proposal to allow underage marriages with approval from High Rabbinical Court and social worker

After tough campaign, Barkat beats Lion to remain Jerusalem mayor

Incumbents returned in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beit Shemesh and nearly everywhere else; Likud-Beytenu garners just one seat on capital’s council

Knesset members admit to pot use

After Yachimovich comes clean, at least 11 lawmakers from the center-left say they, too, tried soft drugs

Jerusalem councilman lobbies for Arab vote

Voting this October is ‘a matter of life and death’ for Arabs in the city, says Meretz’s Meir Margalit

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