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Yizhar Hess, a World Zionist Organization vice chairman and senior representative of the Masorti/Conservative Judaism (left), discusses with an ultra-Orthodox worshipper at the Western Wall in an undated picture. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2026, 2:23 am
Divisive bill barring non-Orthodox practices at Western Wall back on Knesset agenda
Legislation would give chief rabbis ultimate authority at holiest site for Jewish prayer, could see non-Orthodox worship branded as ‘desecration,’ carrying 7-year jail term
By Rossella Tercatin
Conservative/Masorti Movement leaders praying at the egalitarian plaza at the Western Wall in October 2025. (Courtesy MERCAZ Olami)
March 16, 2026, 5:17 pm
Knesset committee advances bill expanding Orthodox control over Western Wall Plaza
Controversial legislation referred to Knesset Constitution Committee; Women of the Wall say Israel ‘spitting’ in the face of Diaspora Jewry
By Sam Sokol
Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, December 12, 2024. (Courtesy/ File)
February 25, 2026, 4:28 pm
MKs approve preliminary bill cementing Orthodox control over entire Western Wall
Haredim praise bill giving Chief Rabbinate authority over prayer at Old City site, calling it victory over Reform Movement; progressives say Israel turning back on non-Orthodox, Diaspora
By Sam Sokol
Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, December 12, 2024. (Courtesy/ File)
February 22, 2026, 8:01 pm
Netanyahu nixes ministerial vote on bill cementing Orthodox control of Western Wall
Justice minister calls on MKs to vote in favor, coalition whip receives PM’s permission to give MKs freedom to vote freely on the controversial legislation
By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 6:19 pm
2 West Bank annexation bills get initial nod, with MKs rebelling against PM as Vance visits
Netanyahu’s Likud punishes Edelstein for casting decisive vote, dismisses bill as opposition ‘trolling,’ but also says it is working on creating right conditions for sovereignty
By Sam Sokol
Jewish families celebrate the Sukkot holiday at the Jewish settlement of Efrat, October 16, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
October 16, 2025, 6:55 pm
Knesset winter session to open with annexation push, but PM unlikely to back effort
Ministerial committee likely won’t advance bills to apply sovereignty to West Bank despite significant parliamentary support, as coalition source labels efforts as ‘political spin’
By Sam Sokol
L: MK Avi Maoz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); C: MK Dan Illouz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); R: MK Zvi Sukkot in Moshav Avivim, December 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
September 26, 2025, 1:21 pm
After Trump rejects West Bank annexation, right-wing MKs urge PM to do it anyway
Far-right office-holders say US leader is a friend to Israel, but call on Netanyahu to defy him and ‘apply full sovereignty’ in response to nations recognizing Palestinian state
By ToI Staff
MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)
July 17, 2025, 6:44 pm
Far-right MK Avi Maoz quits coalition, leaving Netanyahu without Knesset majority
Sole Noam party MK notes coalition now only has 60 seats in Knesset, but move, coming after ultra-Orthodox parties also pulling away, won’t bring down government for now
By Sam Sokol
ILLUSTRATIVE — New immigrants from North America arrive on a special aliyah flight arranged by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)
July 9, 2025, 10:25 pm
Bill to limit Law of Return shot down despite support from ultra-Orthodox MKs
Controversial legislation would have revoked right of non-Jewish grandchildren of Jews to immigrate to Israel and automatically obtain citizenship
By Sam Sokol
Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks in the Knesset, March 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 8:00 pm
Coalition revives contentious bid to limit Law of Return; this time, it may pass
An amendment that would deny people with only one Jewish grandparent the automatic right to immigrate to Israel is expected to be approved when it is discussed again in two months
By Zev Stub
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025. (Screenshot)
April 29, 2025, 12:38 am
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces he will step down from his role on June 15
Bar, whom cabinet voted last month to fire, sparking ongoing legal battle, says ‘all’ who failed on Oct. 7 must go, stresses need for security agency’s continued independence
By Stav Levaton, Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Handout picture of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran on April 2, 2024. (Iranian Presidency/AFP)
May 20, 2024, 1:58 pm
‘We won’t shed a tear’: Israeli MKs react coldly to Raisi’s death, as government mum
Far-right MK: Iran leader who threatened Israel with annihilation now ‘a grain of dust in history’; TV station sorry after falling for joke that pilot was Mossad agent ‘Eli Kopter’
By ToI Staff
Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 11, 2024, 1:12 am
Government earmarks NIS 25m for far-right MK’s Jewish National Identity Authority
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid slams government for allocating the funds to Avi Maoz’s authority rather than to evacuees, soldiers or ‘businesses that collapsed during the war’
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
July 14, 2023, 2:01 am
Nir Orbach, ex-MK who toppled previous government, to head new Jewish identity office
Far-right Avi Maoz launches body that will oversee school programing, says that while he opposed Orbach taking part in Bennett-Lapid coalition, he’s not ‘engaged in score-settling’
By Michael Bachner
Likud MK Nissim Vaturi attends a discussion in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 5:20 pm
Likud MK: Some parents try to make their sons gay by giving them dolls to play with
Nissim Vaturi defends granting of control over vendor-provided curricula in schools to far-right lawmaker Avi Maoz, urges no promotion of any kind of gender identity
By ToI Staff
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