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Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in his office at the Knesset (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Yair Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer a defender of Israeli democracy
By David Horovitz
Israelis' second-favorite choice for prime minister charges that the long-serving incumbent does not put the greater good of Israel ahead of his own political interests anymore
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 20, 2017, 5:24 pm
Not all criticism is incitement, PM says after Rivlin comes under fire
Netanyahu gently chides colleagues over attacks aimed at president; opposition leaders call on him to rein in the critics, after president shown in Arab headdress
By TOI staff
Head of the Zionist Union party Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on October 23, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 16, 2017, 6:51 am
With Jewish jab at left, Gabbay may be signaling he hasn’t forgotten Shas
A comment by the Labor leader mimicking Netanyahu may not have been aimed at Likud voters at all, but rather at stealing support from the troubled ultra-Orthodox party
By Marissa Newman
An Israeli flag flutters above the wreckage of a tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking the border with Syria on October 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)
November 15, 2017, 1:22 pm
Iranians at the border
The Hebrew-language dailies consider Syria, the gender wage gap, and what it means to be a leftist Jew
By Adiv Sterman
Britain's International Development Secretary Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street for the weekly meeting of the cabinet in central London on October 31, 2017. AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN)
November 7, 2017, 9:11 am
UK minister apologizes for unauthorized meetings with Israeli officials
Priti Patel met Netanyahu, Lapid and Erdan while on vacation in Israel without notifying Britain's Foreign Office
By TOI staff
Newly elected Labour party leader Avi Gabay at the Labour party primaries headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 10, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 1, 2017, 11:14 pm
Poll shows center-left could block Netanyahu coalition in next election
A Channel 10 survey has a center-left bloc of 61 seats, however Channel 12 gives current right-wing government a majority with 62 seats
By TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin seen at the Talmud Torah Boston school in Bnei Brak during the opening of the new academic school year. August 23, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
October 25, 2017, 11:58 am
Bnei Brak graffiti dubbing president a ‘Nazi’ sparks outcry
Netanyahu condemns anti-Rivlin vandalism; incident appears tied to president's visit to ultra-Orthodox school 2 months ago
By Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Knesset during the opening of the parliament's winter session on October 23, 2017. (Knesset)
October 23, 2017, 1:44 pm
Liberman clarifies: Claim Hezbollah fired rockets is mine, not army’s
After IDF says it has no intel to support defense minister's remark, minister makes it clear that it's his own assessment
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with coalition chairman David Bitan in the plenum on April 05, 2017. Tourism Minister Yariv Levin is seen on right. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
October 23, 2017, 7:01 am
Knesset reconvenes with an ambitious and controversial agenda
Packed coalition plan for winter session includes right-wing hopes to sidestep top courts, advance 'Jewish state law' and rewrite law on ultra-Orthodox draft
By Marissa Newman
Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
October 20, 2017, 9:47 am
Israel’s centrist leaders vie to replace Netanyahu – by taking his side
Swinging to the right, Labor leader says no need to uproot settlements in peace deal, as Yesh Atid head refrains from attacking PM over investigations
By Andrew Tobin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from right) presides over the weekly cabinet meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem, October 15, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
October 15, 2017, 4:21 pm
Cabinet approves controversial expansion of political appointments
Directors of large ministries will receive the right to appoint deputies in move that backers say will aid good government
By Sue Surkes
Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid attends a ceremony for new immigrants from North America at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 12, 2017, 6:07 pm
Lapid: Iran thinks it can lie its way to the bomb
Yesh Atid leader pens ferocious article in 'The Atlantic' in response to piece by Iranian FM Zarif, echoes Netanyahu with call to scrap or amend nuke deal
By TOI staff
Police form a perimeter around the road leading to the Mandalay Hotel (background) after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others, when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2, 2017. (AFP/Mark RALSTON)
October 2, 2017, 7:31 pm
Netanyahu says Israel ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with US after Vegas massacre
Rivlin sends condolences to Trump; Israeli officials express sympathy, support for victims, American people
By TOI staff
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer stands in the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave. after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby on October 2, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)
October 2, 2017, 5:36 pm
Several Israelis unaccounted for in Las Vegas after mass shooting
LA consul heads to Nevada to aid in search effort; Israeli president, others send condolences to US over attack at concert
By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)
September 28, 2017, 10:59 pm
Lapid tries to block Palestinian terrorist hijacker from speaking in Spain
Leila Khaled, who spoke in EU parliament on 'The Role of Women in the Palestinian Popular Resistance,' now set to talk in Madrid
By TOI staff
Supreme Court President Miriam Naor speaks at a ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 27, 2017, 1:34 pm
Supreme Court head doubles down on skipping ‘political’ pro-settlement event
Responding to petition on choice to forgo jubilee, Miriam Naor says participation at 'one-sided' gathering is against court's ethic rules
By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid
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