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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coughing while addressing an annual health conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2018. (AFP / JACK GUEZ)
April 5, 2018, 10:23 pm
New Israel Fund sees huge leap in donations after attack by PM
Israelis give NGO almost half a million shekels after Netanyahu accuses it of pressuring Rwanda to scrap a deal to take in asylum seekers
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
Illustrative: Shaul Shamai (c), suspected of molesting his students while acting as a substitute teacher, arrives escorted by prison guards at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, June 13, 2017. (Flash90)
December 6, 2017, 2:49 pm
Bills would ban indicted sex offenders from teaching
Proposed legislation, which would force police to inform schools of allegations, clears preliminary reading unanimously
By Marissa Newman
State Prosecuter Shai Nitzan attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2017, 7:57 pm
State prosecutor slams ‘problematic’ police recommendations bill
Opposition MKs appeal to Knesset speaker after contested legislation is fast-tracked for final votes next week
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Protesters demonstrate outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit in Petah Tikva, on May 27, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
May 30, 2017, 2:04 pm
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
MK Oren Hazan reacts at a plenum session in the assembly hall of Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2017, 12:44 pm
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 3, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)
May 6, 2017, 10:05 pm
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 TOI staff
View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2017, 6:31 am
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 TOI staff
View of the plenum hall in the Israeli parliament on February 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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
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)
March 17, 2017, 1:27 pm
Netanyahu apologizes for ‘Mizrahi gene’ remark
PM takes to Twitter to say sorry after critics slam his comment as racist
By Alexander Fulbright
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein teaching a lesson in 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 15, 2017, 5:12 pm
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 TOI staff
Meretz leader Zehava Galon on December 25, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2017, 7:00 pm
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 TOI staff
A kangaroo jill and her joey (public domain, Tom Lind via Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2016, 12:10 am
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 TOI staff
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