May 30, 2017
2:04 pm

Protesters demonstrate outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit in Petah Tikva, on May 27, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

MKs warned not to join illegal protests outside AG’s home

But letter from Knesset legal adviser stipulates that parliamentary immunity will still safeguard lawmakers from arrest

By Jacob Magid

May 7, 2017
12:44 pm

MK Oren Hazan reacts at a plenum session in the assembly hall of Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs fume over insulted intelligence

Zionist Union’s Mickey Rosenthal comes under fire for mocking the IQs of the bottom third of the ruling party’s slate

By Jacob Magid

May 6, 2017
10:05 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 3, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)

PM suggests police will recommend to indict him to avoid admitting failure

PMO officials say after ‘months of leaks’ on a coming indictment, ‘does anyone imagine they’ll have the courage to admit there’s nothing?’

By Times of Israel staff

April 27, 2017
6:31 am

View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset finalizes delay of new broadcaster launch

Two-week postponement till May 15 is to allow lawmakers to draft legislation gutting the corporation’s news department

By Marissa Newman and Times of Israel staff

April 25, 2017
4:01 pm

Knesset gives initial okay to delay new broadcaster launch

Parliament to finalize two-week postponement Wednesday, allowing government to ready legislation to gut corporation’s news department

By Marissa Newman

March 17, 2017
1:27 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau and his wife Sara attend the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in Or Akiva on April 21, 2014. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu apologizes for ‘Mizrahi gene’ remark

PM takes to Twitter to say sorry after critics slam his comment as racist

By Alexander Fulbright

March 15, 2017
5:12 pm

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein teaching a lesson in 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Defense minister demands rabbi who disparaged female troops resign

Referencing history of controversial statements, Liberman threatens to cut support for academies under Yigal Levinstein if he doesn’t step down

By Times of Israel staff

January 11, 2017
7:00 pm

Meretz leader Zehava Galon on December 25, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz head: Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper blacklisted me

Zionist Union MK and former journalist Mickey Rosenthal confirms policy by publisher to ‘settle scores’ with personal foes

By Times of Israel staff

December 8, 2016
12:10 am

A kangaroo jill and her joey (public domain, Tom Lind via Wikimedia Commons)

MKs jump to join all-expenses-paid trip to save the kangaroos

14 lawmakers fall for TV sting, sign up for excursion at busiest time of year, offered by an organization that does not exist

By Times of Israel staff

October 10, 2016
4:05 pm

The Associated Press Photographer Majdi Mohammed shows a bruise after he was hit with a rubber bullet while covering clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the town of al Ram, West Bank, October 9, 2016. (AP Photo)

IDF, police ‘looking into’ case of AP photographer hit by rubber bullet

Majdi Mohammed says he was shot in West Bank despite obeying soldiers’ order to leave area; FPA calls shooting intentional

By Agencies and Times of Israel staff

August 6, 2016
1:36 pm

Lawmakers vote in the Knesset plenum, July 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NGOs, paternity leave, media reform, oh my! A look at Israel’s newest laws

As Knesset goes on 3-month break, here is some of the legislation that made it through — and the controversies that are sure to follow

By Marissa Newman

July 31, 2016
8:19 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)

Cabinet session devolves into fracas over journalists’ loyalties

‘What’s the point if we don’t control it?’ one minister asks ahead of a vote on launch of new public broadcaster

By Haviv Rettig Gur

July 25, 2016
4:43 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reads a newspaper in the Knesset. Jan 06, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)

How Netanyahu missed an opportunity to stick it to his media rival

A bill by a former journalist would have targeted the Yedioth Ahronoth outlet for its ‘native advertising,’ but in the contest between transparency, revenge, and politics, politics won out

By Marissa Newman

June 5, 2016
11:54 am

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L) and MK Eitan Cabel attend a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 8, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Senior Labor MK raps Herzog for keeping coalition option open

While decrying opposition leader’s apparently softened stance, Eitan Cabel, too, says party would reconsider if ‘new situation’ arose

By Times of Israel staff

June 5, 2016
1:05 am

Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor MKs warn joining coalition could destroy party

As Herzog appears yet again to soften stance on entering coalition, some of his lawmakers warn Netanyahu has no desire to truly seek peace

By Times of Israel staff

Topic: Mickey Rosenthal

MKs warned not to join illegal protests outside AG’s home

But letter from Knesset legal adviser stipulates that parliamentary immunity will still safeguard lawmakers from arrest

Likud MKs fume over insulted intelligence

Zionist Union’s Mickey Rosenthal comes under fire for mocking the IQs of the bottom third of the ruling party’s slate

PM suggests police will recommend to indict him to avoid admitting failure

PMO officials say after ‘months of leaks’ on a coming indictment, ‘does anyone imagine they’ll have the courage to admit there’s nothing?’

Knesset finalizes delay of new broadcaster launch

Two-week postponement till May 15 is to allow lawmakers to draft legislation gutting the corporation’s news department

Knesset gives initial okay to delay new broadcaster launch

Parliament to finalize two-week postponement Wednesday, allowing government to ready legislation to gut corporation’s news department

Netanyahu apologizes for ‘Mizrahi gene’ remark

PM takes to Twitter to say sorry after critics slam his comment as racist

Defense minister demands rabbi who disparaged female troops resign

Referencing history of controversial statements, Liberman threatens to cut support for academies under Yigal Levinstein if he doesn’t step down

Meretz head: Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper blacklisted me

Zionist Union MK and former journalist Mickey Rosenthal confirms policy by publisher to ‘settle scores’ with personal foes

MKs jump to join all-expenses-paid trip to save the kangaroos

14 lawmakers fall for TV sting, sign up for excursion at busiest time of year, offered by an organization that does not exist

IDF, police ‘looking into’ case of AP photographer hit by rubber bullet

Majdi Mohammed says he was shot in West Bank despite obeying soldiers’ order to leave area; FPA calls shooting intentional

NGOs, paternity leave, media reform, oh my! A look at Israel’s newest laws

As Knesset goes on 3-month break, here is some of the legislation that made it through — and the controversies that are sure to follow

Cabinet session devolves into fracas over journalists’ loyalties

‘What’s the point if we don’t control it?’ one minister asks ahead of a vote on launch of new public broadcaster

How Netanyahu missed an opportunity to stick it to his media rival

A bill by a former journalist would have targeted the Yedioth Ahronoth outlet for its ‘native advertising,’ but in the contest between transparency, revenge, and politics, politics won out

Senior Labor MK raps Herzog for keeping coalition option open

While decrying opposition leader’s apparently softened stance, Eitan Cabel, too, says party would reconsider if ‘new situation’ arose

Labor MKs warn joining coalition could destroy party

As Herzog appears yet again to soften stance on entering coalition, some of his lawmakers warn Netanyahu has no desire to truly seek peace

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