Ahmad Tibi

January 8, 2019, 8:39 pm

Veteran Arab MK bolts the Joint List, taking his party along

Ahmad Tibi files paperwork to break ranks with 13-seat Arab alliance in Knesset, indicating he could run independently

By Adam Rasgon

A view of the Northern Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth, on January 26, 2016 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

January 2, 2019, 9:38 pm

New ‘centrist’ Arab party registers ahead of elections

Platform includes resolving housing crisis in Arab Israeli towns and bridging between Israelis and Palestinians

By Adam Rasgon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with coalition head and Likud parliament member David Amsalem (R) and Minister of Communication Ayoub Kara at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

December 16, 2018, 10:46 pm

PM, coalition, fare poorly on support for transparency, study suggests

Independent media site reviews lawmakers’ votes on transparency bills, readiness to go public on personal wealth; study leader: ‘No government likes exposure, supervision’

By Sue Surkes

Communication Minister Ayoub Kara receives medical treatment outside the Knesset plenum after collapsing on December 12, 2018. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in the plenum at the time, can be seen sitting down on the right of the photo. (Courtesy)

December 12, 2018, 8:50 pm

Minister collapses at Knesset after complaining of chest pains

Ayoub Kara receives treatment from an MK with medical training, is then rushed to the hospital; Knesset closes for the day after incident

By TOI staff and Raoul Wootliff

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a conference ahead of opening of the school year, in Ramat Gan, August 20, 2018. (Flash90)

September 4, 2018, 3:11 pm

Bennett: Arab MKs are supporting ‘anti-Semitism and terrorism’ by backing Corbyn

Education minister says Joint List lawmakers showed their ‘true colors’ in letter defending UK Labour leader under fire for anti-Jewish statements

By TOI staff

Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev (r) remonstrates with Joint (Arab) List MKs at Ben Gurion airport on September 3, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

September 3, 2018, 8:08 pm

At airport, Jewish Home MK urges Arab colleagues to emigrate from Israel

‘This is not your country,’ Moti Yogev tells Joint List MKs as they travel to Brussels to rally international community against nation-state law

By TOI staff

Ahmed Tibi addressing a special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on November 29, 2017. (UN/Kim Haughton)

August 28, 2018, 10:19 pm

How Israeli MKs turned a fake UN resolution into a cudgel against Arab lawmakers

Report on Joint List-led measure criticizing nation-state law was used by MKs on right and left to score political points, though story appears to have been manufactured

By Jacob Magid

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour (Screen capture: YouTube)

July 31, 2018, 2:12 pm

Arab Israeli poet given 5-month sentence for poems deemed incitement

Galilee resident Dareen Tatour, who says her ‘Resist My People, Resist’ is not a call to violence, ascribes her arrest to the fact that she is a Palestinian

By AP and TOI staff

MK Yehuda Glick (C-L) walks barefoot, escorted by Israeli police and supporters, inside the flash-point Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem's Old City on August 29, 2017. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP).

July 3, 2018, 11:58 pm

Netanyahu lifts ban on MKs visiting Temple Mount

Barred from visits since 2015 wave of terror attacks, lawmakers now permitted to go to holy site once every three months

By TOI staff

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 23, 2018, 12:03 am

Sports minister seems to take shot at Argentina after World Cup blowout

Miri Regev, who took brunt of blame for Argentinian team’s cancellation of warm-up game in Jerusalem, says those who oppose Israel will meet defeat

By TOI staff

Israeli supporters of the two Jewish suspected in the arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, demonstrate outside of a Lod court, on June 19, 2018. AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI)

June 19, 2018, 9:09 pm

Jewish extremists taunt ‘Ali’s on the grill’ at slain toddler’s relatives

Two dozen far-right protesters shout outside courtroom in support of Duma terror attack perpetrators; relatives slam police for letting abusive chorus continue unabated

By Jacob Magid

Likud MK Miki Zohar speaks during an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 13, 2018, 9:13 pm

Israeli lawmaker proclaims supremacy of ‘Jewish race’

Likud’s MK Miki Zohar says Jews are the smartest in the world, so know Netanyahu isn’t corrupt

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (L) attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 6, 2018, 11:21 am

Opposition MKs blame Netanyahu, sports minister for nixed Argentina game

Lawmakers say match’s move to Jerusalem, allegedly part of a deal to allow Regev to meet Messi, fanned BDS flames and led to the cancellation

By Raoul Wootliff

Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Dwedar a 27 year-old Palestinian killed during clashes along the Gaza border the previous day, during his funeral in Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on May 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

May 15, 2018, 4:42 pm

Two Palestinians killed as clashes erupt in Gaza, West Bank for second day

Protests on border draw some 4,000 after funerals held for 60 people killed in deadly clashes in the Strip a day earlier

By Judah Ari Gross, TOI staff and Agencies

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a swearing in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, October 30, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 15, 2018, 10:37 am

Justice minister plays down prospect of war crimes charges over Gaza deaths

Shaked says IDF troops acting ‘in accordance with open-fire orders’; Liberman: Israelis celebrated life after Eurovision win, Palestinians glorify death

By TOI staff and Agencies