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Topic: Meretz party

May 10, 2013
10:11 pm

Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall Friday (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists

400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight

By Michal Shmulovich

May 8, 2013
7:03 pm

The Knesset plenum (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset gives initial okay to bill limiting no-confidence votes

Opposition MKs call legislation, which would also raise electoral threshold, undemocratic and dictatorial

May 6, 2013
7:27 pm

Government okays bill that would limit opposition’s powers

Labor, Meretz, and Shas blast as an assault on democracy a bid to raise electoral threshold and impede no-confidence motions

By Michal Shmulovich

May 2, 2013
6:39 pm

Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition lauds Lapid for scaling back on budget cuts

Labor leader calls for incentives, not austerity measures, while Meretz head blames PM’s tax cuts for looming reductions in social services

By Michal Shmulovich and Joshua Davidovich

May 1, 2013
9:57 pm

MK David Rotem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Radical new bill would make coalitions harder to shift, block small parties

Labor and Meretz denounce ostensible Netanyahu-Liberman bid to give government dictatorial powers

By Michal Shmulovich

March 4, 2013
5:50 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, February 2013 (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Netanyahu will have to deal with a strong opposition

The prime minister’s call for a broad coalition may be masking his fear of a front united against his policies

By Aaron Kalman

February 20, 2013
10:09 am

Tzipi Livni (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Livni: Joining Netanyahu not a betrayal of Hatnua voters

PA official optimistic about presumptive justice minister’s prospects as a negotiator; Yishai: Shas not in the coalition yet

By Asher Zeiger

February 20, 2013
6:07 am

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni hold a joint press conference to announce Hatnua's joining the coalition on Tuesday, February 19 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Meretz leader slams Livni for joining coalition

Zahava Gal-on says that Netanyahu will not make peace; Likud MKs fear appointments will block rightist legislation

By Ron Friedman

February 10, 2013
2:45 pm

Leader of the left-wing Meretz party Zahava Gal-on speaks at the site were Emil Grunzweig was killed in an attack on a Peace Now rally in 1983. A memorial ceremony was held on the 30th anniversary of the event, on Sunday 10th February 2013. (photo credit Flash90)

Netanyahu will let chance of peace go, leftist leader warns

At memorial of slain anti-war activist Emil Grunzweig, Meretz head says left-wing groups are still targets of incitement

By Stuart Winer

February 7, 2013
9:10 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, shakes hands with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett at the opening session of the Knesset earlier this month, as President Shimon Peres looks on. Behind them are Labor's Shelly Yachimovich and Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Netanyahu finally invites right-wing rival for talks

Prime minister meets Lapid a second time and even hosts Meretz’s leader before reaching out to Jewish Home’s Naftali Bennett, his former aide, for coalition talks next week

By Times of Israel staff

February 5, 2013
3:50 pm

The 120 members of the 19th Knesset

Israel’s MKs, arranged by party

By Times of Israel staff

January 30, 2013
6:27 am

President Shimon Peres will meet with party leaders on Wednesday and Thursday before determining who to task with forming the coalition (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Peres to start talks with party leaders before handing over coalition keys

With 82 MKs in his camp, Netanyahu assured to get presidential nod to form government; negotiations to begin officially on Friday

By Ron Friedman

January 28, 2013
4:18 pm

Meretz leader Zahava Gal-on (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

Meretz head: On Arabs, Lapid is akin to Beitar fans

Zahava Gal-on likens Yesh Atid leader’s refusal to sit with Arab parliamentarian to soccer club supporters who don’t want Arab players

By Gabe Fisher

January 26, 2013
3:19 am

Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid poses with female members of his new political movement in November. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Next Knesset to receive boost in female power

Record 27 women win seats in elections, nearly a quarter of new legislature

By Yifa Yaakov and Ron Friedman

January 24, 2013
4:22 pm

The official count of Israeli votes, as of Thursday afternoon (photo credit: screen capture Government election's site)

The numbers behind the results

Netanyahu won less than a quarter of the popular vote; final turnout 67.52%; over 250,000 envelopes went to waste

By Aaron Kalman

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Meretz party

A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists

400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight

Knesset gives initial okay to bill limiting no-confidence votes

Opposition MKs call legislation, which would also raise electoral threshold, undemocratic and dictatorial

Government okays bill that would limit opposition’s powers

Labor, Meretz, and Shas blast as an assault on democracy a bid to raise electoral threshold and impede no-confidence motions

Opposition lauds Lapid for scaling back on budget cuts

Labor leader calls for incentives, not austerity measures, while Meretz head blames PM’s tax cuts for looming reductions in social services

Radical new bill would make coalitions harder to shift, block small parties

Labor and Meretz denounce ostensible Netanyahu-Liberman bid to give government dictatorial powers

Netanyahu will have to deal with a strong opposition

The prime minister’s call for a broad coalition may be masking his fear of a front united against his policies

Livni: Joining Netanyahu not a betrayal of Hatnua voters

PA official optimistic about presumptive justice minister’s prospects as a negotiator; Yishai: Shas not in the coalition yet

Meretz leader slams Livni for joining coalition

Zahava Gal-on says that Netanyahu will not make peace; Likud MKs fear appointments will block rightist legislation

Netanyahu will let chance of peace go, leftist leader warns

At memorial of slain anti-war activist Emil Grunzweig, Meretz head says left-wing groups are still targets of incitement

Netanyahu finally invites right-wing rival for talks

Prime minister meets Lapid a second time and even hosts Meretz’s leader before reaching out to Jewish Home’s Naftali Bennett, his former aide, for coalition talks next week

The 120 members of the 19th Knesset

Israel’s MKs, arranged by party

Peres to start talks with party leaders before handing over coalition keys

With 82 MKs in his camp, Netanyahu assured to get presidential nod to form government; negotiations to begin officially on Friday

Meretz head: On Arabs, Lapid is akin to Beitar fans

Zahava Gal-on likens Yesh Atid leader’s refusal to sit with Arab parliamentarian to soccer club supporters who don’t want Arab players

Next Knesset to receive boost in female power

Record 27 women win seats in elections, nearly a quarter of new legislature

The numbers behind the results

Netanyahu won less than a quarter of the popular vote; final turnout 67.52%; over 250,000 envelopes went to waste

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