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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

25th Knesset

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir addresses the Knesset plenum, July 24, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
July 25, 2024, 3:23 pm
In late-night session, Knesset hands Ben Gvir authority over building violations
Giving the far-right minister such power means ‘more demolitions, more murders, more lawlessness in Arab society,’ asserts Ra’am MK Waleed Alhawashla
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A 'kosher' phone in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, February 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 25, 2024, 10:36 am
MKs pass law cementing Haredi control over community’s censored ‘kosher’ phones
Controversial bill undoes 2022 reform that gave ultra-Orthodox full carrier mobility; Deri: ‘For the first time, the law recognizes the public’s right to kosher communication’
By Sam Sokol and Canaan Lidor
Screen capture from video of a scuffle in the Knesset between right-wing and Arab lawmakers, July 18, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 18, 2024, 11:41 am
Ben Gvir calls Arab lawmakers ‘terrorists’ from Knesset rostrum, triggering melee
Knesset members charge at podium as far-right minister repeatedly shouts ‘Out!’ at them; ushers attempt to prevent physical altercation, with Likud MK nearly knocking one down
By Stuart Winer
Family members of hostages held in Gaza react during a plenum session of the Knesset on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2024, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 24: Day 110 – Hostage families burst into Knesset, demand action
Knesset correspondent Sam Sokol reports on hostage families and testimonies of sexual assault as reporter Gavriel Fiske discusses solace sought by bereaved parents in Cyprus
By ToI Staff
A blood-soaked child's bed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza seen in a photo shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 11, 2023, in the aftermath of the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7. (X/Netanyahu)
November 7, 2023, 8:33 pm
Mental health professionals implore Netanyahu not to show atrocities film to public
Group focused on helping suffering Israelis warns against re-traumatizing a nation still in shock from October 7 and grappling with ongoing war against Hamas
By Renee Ghert-Zand
MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on June 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
July 14, 2023, 10:18 am
Rothman to wrap up ‘reasonableness’ bill talks on Sunday, Knesset to vote week after
Committee set to vote on bill during next week, deliver it for final Knesset approval; PM said to tell Herzog he is working on a new version, but won’t return to president’s talks
By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn
Shani Illouz, a candidate in Tiberias’s October 2023 mayoral election, tells a Knesset committee she was offered 'jobs' to quit race, on July 3, 2023. (Screenshot: YouTube) (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 3, 2023, 11:39 pm
Tiberias mayoral candidate says Likud members tried to get her to quit race
Shani Illouz, herself a Likud member, tells Knesset panel members of the party offered her various jobs in exchange for backing down ahead of October election
By ToI Staff
In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a security cabinet meeting at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2023. (Avi Ohayan/GPO)
May 11, 2023, 1:35 pm
For Netanyahu, the storm before the calm?
Things are looking up for the prime minister. If he can finish the Gaza fighting with public support intact and pass a state budget by month’s end, he will be all but unassailable
By Haviv Rettig Gur
African migrants protest at the Holot detention center near Ketziot, in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (FLASH90)
April 27, 2023, 8:56 am
Overhaul backers turn thrice-struck asylum seeker law into emblem of court activism
Contrasting justices’ rejection of bill jailing African migrants with their approval of Gaza Disengagement Law, Simcha Rothman cuts to very heart of debate dividing Israeli society
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, March 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 2, 2023, 2:31 pm
Knesset wraps winter session, shifting judicial battleground to President’s Residence
With parliament on break, focus is fully on overhaul negotiations and protests until legislature returns on April 30; 28 new laws passed in 3 months
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) at the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2023, 12:22 pm
Despite pause, government files contentious judicial selection bill for final votes
Coalition sources, Knesset secretary say move is ‘technical,’ but opposition MKs fume and say they’d be coming to overhaul negotiations with ‘a gun to the head’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset session on March 20, 2023 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 26, 2023, 1:15 pm
Knesset to see decisive week for Supreme Court, as cracks appear in coalition
Core judicial overhaul plan to put coalition in control of appointing judges about to become law, amid mini-rebellion in Likud over pushing legislative pace despite societal rifts
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee hearing, February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2023, 7:01 am
Amid mass protests, government set to keep advancing legal overhaul at full steam
Knesset panel to discuss bills letting MKs shield legislation from review, limit option of recusing PM; next plenum votes expected Wednesday, when protesters plan ‘day of struggle’
By ToI Staff
Opposition MKs holding Israeli flags during the discussion and vote on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the Knesset, February 20, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 21, 2023, 1:16 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 21: Emotions high at Knesset as 1st part of overhaul bill passes
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and legal affairs reporter Jeremy Sharon discuss impassioned debate as contentious legislation gets its first Knesset okay
By ToI Staff
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee hearing, February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 10, 2023, 6:13 am
What Matters Now… to MK Simcha Rothman: ‘The people should appoint the judges’
In this second episode of What Matters Now, we speak with the legislator who has written the bills for the proposed judicial overhaul and hear why he thinks they’re not so radical
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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