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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Arab MKs

MK Ayman Odeh in the assembly hall of the Knesset ahead of a failed vote on his proposed expulsion, July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Motion to expel Arab party head Odeh from Knesset fails; coalition MKs heckle him
By Sam Sokol
In raucous session, only 73 of the required 90 lawmakers back motion to boot Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ayman Odeh, who vows to ‘stand strong against fascism’ and ‘fight for democracy’
MK Ayman Odeh in the assembly hall of the Knesset ahead of a failed vote on his proposed expulsion, July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2025, 1:47 am
Motion to expel Arab party head Odeh from Knesset fails; coalition MKs heckle him
In raucous session, only 73 of the required 90 lawmakers back motion to boot Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ayman Odeh, who vows to ‘stand strong against fascism’ and ‘fight for democracy’
By Sam Sokol
A woman votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 27, 2024, 9:28 pm
Lawmakers advance bills to block ‘terror supporters’ from holding local office
Legislation would ban candidates who support armed struggle against Israel from running in municipal elections — and would allow their removal, once elected, by Interior Ministry
By Sam Sokol
File: MK Ayman Odeh (center left) and MK Ahmad Tibi (center right) attend Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 3:20 am
Knesset advances legislation that could make it easier to disqualify Arab lawmakers
Bill would expand criteria for barring candidates from running to include any support for act of terror or terrorist; bill giving government control of TV ratings data also advances
By Sam Sokol and Michael Horovitz
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
MK Mansour Abbas addresses the plenum, July 17, 2024. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)
July 17, 2024, 7:36 pm
Bennett rebukes former partner Abbas after he claims ‘50,000 civilians murdered in Gaza’
‘The IDF is eliminating vile terrorists,’ says former PM after Ra’am party leader makes claim at Knesset; MK Ayman Odeh booted from plenum for calling Netanyahu a ‘terrorist’
By Sam Sokol
MK Ayman Odeh is pushed by police during a protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's decision to freeze funds earmarked for Arab municipalities, outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 21, 2023, 3:21 pm
Scuffles as Arab mayors, MKs protest outside Netanyahu’s office against budget cuts
Community leaders organize a strike and demonstration that ends with minor brawl with police; one mayor detained
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Members of the Joint List alliance register their party for approaching elections at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 11:02 pm
Coalition said planning bill to ease disqualification of Arabs from Knesset
Legislation would facilitate banning individuals from running for parliament if they express any support at all for terror or a terrorist, including visiting families of suspects
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest against the Russian invasion to the Ukraine, to attend a televised video address by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2022. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
March 24, 2022, 2:05 pm
Daily Briefing March 24: Arab MKs silent on Ukraine, as refugees head to Israel
Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman on why Arab MKs spurned Zelensky, plus an Arab teen’s death; Diaspora affairs reporter Judah Ari Gross on Ukrainian ‘aliyah,’ and ‘agunot’
By ToI Staff
The latest State of Jerusalem video for the Times of Israel, 'The Maqdasyin,' about the Israelization of Paletinian Jerusalemites (Courtesy State of Jerusalem)
January 6, 2022, 1:45 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 6 – Verbal jousting in Knesset, and Jerusalem’s Arabs
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses Wednesday’s raucous Knesset scenes; we chat with State of Jerusalem filmmaker Natan Odenheimer about his latest documentary for ToI
By ToI Staff
An Arab Israeli woman votes in Israel's parliamentary elections on April 9, 2019, at a school turned polling station in the northern town of Taybe. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
September 18, 2019, 5:17 pm
Arab turnout rises to 60% after reaching an all-time low in April
Voter suppression efforts and warnings about Arabs flocking to the polls appear to have backfired, driving higher voter participation
By ToI Staff
MK Hanin Zoabi being escorted out of the plenary hall by security guards after interrupting an assembly session in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 6, 2019, 8:47 am
Lawmakers cheer resignation of firebrand Palestinian nationalist Zoabi
Arab MK who labeled IDF soldiers ‘murderers’ and called for end to the Jewish state won’t seek reelection after 10 years of courting controversy in the Knesset
By ToI Staff
Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2019, 5:39 pm
Arab MK Zoabi, who called for dissolution of Israel, says won’t seek reelection
After 10 stormy years in the Knesset, Joint List lawmaker acknowledges many hate her and her beliefs; forced to step down by her own party’s regulations
By ToI Staff
Hundreds attend the funeral of 19-year old Israeli soldier Ron Kokia in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery on December 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 24, 2017, 4:56 pm
Confronting suspects, parents of slain soldier urge killers be put to death
Family members of Ron Kokia call suspects Khaled Abu Jaudah and Zahi Abu Jaudah dogs and pigs in court as indictments filed
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (R) and MK Robert Ilatov (L) attend a party faction meeting at the Knesset on April 30, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)
December 11, 2017, 6:38 pm
Defense minister: Arab MKs are ‘war criminals,’ should ‘go back to Gaza’
‘You’re sitting here by mistake,’ Liberman tells Arab lawmakers in parliament, accuses them of attempting to ‘destroy us from the inside’
By Marissa Newman
Meretz MK Issawi Frej attends an Economic Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 7, 2017, 6:31 pm
Arab MK set to join Knesset’s most sensitive and powerful security committee
Meretz’s Issawi Frej would be the first Arab lawmaker to sit on the Foreign Affairs and Defense panel since 2006
By ToI Staff
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