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Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks during the Israel Prize ceremony on Israel’s 78th Independence Day in Jerusalem, April 22, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 6, 2026, 5:35 pm
Education minister demands university chiefs sign pledge to keep politics off campus
Yoav Kisch threatens to push bill by fellow lawmaker giving government control over college budgets if they refuse; school heads reject ‘electioneering stunt’
By ToI Staff
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid chairs a meeting of his Yesh Atid party in the Knesset, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 27, 2025, 7:17 pm
Lapid says he’ll push for revoking ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers’ right to vote
Liberman welcomes opposition leader’s threat, while Gantz derides ‘illegal’ and undemocratic proposal
By Sam Sokol
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (center) waits for the arrival of freed hostage Evyatar David at David's home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
October 26, 2025, 7:58 pm
Ministerial committee advances bill aimed at hampering Bennett electoral campaign
Bennett says coalition resorting to ‘anti-democratic’ law because it fears it’ll lose to him; panel delays decision on bill allowing lawmakers to halt PM’s ongoing criminal trial
By Sam Sokol
Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 22, 2025; right: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, October 15, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL; Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 26, 2025, 3:05 pm
Ministers poised to advance bills that would halt Netanyahu’s trial, block Bennett’s run
Attorney general warns legislation aimed to halt PM’s trial is ‘unconstitutional,’ harms equality before the law; former PM decries ‘personal law designed to stop me from running’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, February 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 19, 2025, 11:46 pm
Ministerial panel advances bills increasing government control over senior appointments
Attorney General’s Office slams legislation to ease rules on appointing heads of government corporations; Gantz says coalition seeking to ‘appoint friends to senior positions’
By Sam Sokol
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
MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 27, 2025. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana is seated in the background. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 6, 2025, 4:02 am
Knesset to vote on expulsion of Arab lawmaker who said ‘Gaza will win’
‘Today it’s me, tomorrow it’s you,’ says Ayman Odeh, slamming opposition members who backed petition to trigger vote on his ouster, which requires 90 MKs to pass
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and 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 Avichai 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
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