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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Avichai Boaron

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 6, 2025, 8:54 pm
Government panel backs bill stripping AG of authority over ministry legal advisers
‘If the bill is legislated, the ability of the attorney general to protect the rule of law will be diminished,’ warns Israel Democracy Institute researcher Guy Lurie
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 8:54 pm
Likud to advance bill stripping AG of authority over ministry legal advisers
Bill ‘could derail the coordinated work of the legal advisers to the government’ and curtail attorney general’s ability to protect the rule of law, warns Israel Democracy Institute
By Sam Sokol
The Knesset House Committee votes to advance the impeachment of Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh, June 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2025, 7:24 pm
Panel votes to impeach Arab MK Ayman Odeh, paving way for possible ouster from Knesset
90 of 120 MKs would have to back a ban; Hadash-Ta’al head slams opposition MKs for joining ‘Kahanist government’ in committee vote: ‘Some of them hate us more than they love democracy’
By Sam Sokol
A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)
June 30, 2025, 3:22 pm
PM condemns ‘fanatic few’ settlers for attacking IDF; Lapid: ‘Terrorists are terrorists’
Netanyahu, coalition members urge crackdown; Gantz: ‘Weak condemnations will not stop the violence, only action will’; Katz: ‘This phenomenon must be put to an immediate end’
By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)
June 30, 2025, 11:09 am
Settlers torch West Bank security site, riot against ‘traitor’ IDF officer; no arrests
Military says arson attack on counterterror installation ‘poses a danger to the security of the residents’; IDF releases footage of Friday settler ambush on military patrol
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
The broadcast offices and studios of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90/ File)
June 29, 2025, 9:06 pm
Ministerial committee gives thumbs-up to bill aimed at selling off Kan news division
Public broadcaster alleges proposed law is ‘intended to terrorize the Kan news division and its staff and benefit those close to the government’
By Sam Sokol
Hadash-Ta’al chairman MK Ayman Odeh attends a Knesset House Committee hearing on his possible impeachment, June 24, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
June 24, 2025, 8:51 pm
Likud MKs invoke ‘hanging,’ ‘firing squad’ in hearing on impeaching Arab lawmaker
‘We will not surrender to fascism,’ declares Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ayman Odeh, who provoked outrage in January when he hailed release of ‘hostages and prisoners’
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and newly reinstated National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 19, 2025, 6:30 am
‘Insanity’: Hawkish politicians and groups pillory Netanyahu for resuming aid to Gaza
Ben Gvir slams ‘grave mistake,’ as MKs in PM’s Likud lament ‘immoral decision’; right-wing hostage families voice shock at move, which leaders repeatedly insisted wouldn’t be made
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Likud MK Avihai Boaron speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, February 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 11, 2025, 11:00 am
Ministers struggling financially, claims MK behind controversial salary bill
While asserting that his legislation is not intended to raise public officials’ wages, Likud’s Avihai Boaron insists some are having trouble making ends meet
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fourth from right, addresses ministers at a special cabinet meeting in Nahariya, December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
May 4, 2025, 7:57 pm
Government approves controversial legislation regulating top officials’ salaries
Ministerial Committee for Legislation backs bill on condition that ministers, MKs do not receive raises; Smotrich calls to cut ‘excessive salaries’ of senior judges
By Sam Sokol
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former prime minister Naftali Bennett (right) attend the funeral of Rabbi Haim Drukman, at Merkaz Shapira, near Kiryat Malachi, on December 26, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen/ AFP)
April 7, 2025, 2:33 pm
Ex-Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu asked me to ‘disqualify’ Bennett from security cabinet
Yoram Cohen says PM claimed ‘loyalty issue’ with Bennett, who himself charges PM tried removing him over 2014 aim to ‘finish’ Hamas; PMO decries ‘fake news’; Cohen also files High Court declaration
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks in the Knesset plenum, December 11, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
December 11, 2024, 8:21 pm
Resolution compelling MKs to discuss firing AG passes 51-0 after opposition boycott
Opposition lawmakers decry attack on Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara as a coalition attempt to cover up policy failures, and walk out of plenum chanting ‘shame’
By Sam Sokol
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 5, 2024, 8:29 pm
Defeat of Knesset resolution on AG hints at limits of support for her ouster
Knesset votes against holding a debate on firing Gali Baharav-Miara, even as Communications Minister Karhi works to mobilize cabinet to push her out
By Sam Sokol
The Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 3, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 27, 2024, 6:36 pm
Seeing opportunity under Trump, some settlers hope to take over Tomb of the Patriarchs
Right-wing ministers and MKs believe time is ripe for scrapping a longstanding status quo dividing the Hebron holy site between Jewish and Muslim worshipers
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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