Avraham Neguise

Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm

Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles

New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset

By Jacob Magid

Likud MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and MK David Bitan, right of Netanyahu, after the passage of the nation-state law at the Knesset on July 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Olivier Fitoussi)

February 6, 2019, 10:09 pm

Farewell Oren Hazan: Scandal-prone MK and others set to miss out on next Knesset

Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick and Ayoub Kara, a minister and the only Druze in Likud’s current slate, also score too low in primaries to make it back

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces elections will be held in April, 2019, at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, December 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

January 16, 2019, 1:51 am

Victory for Netanyahu in Likud Central Committee vote ahead of elections

Panel adopts a series of resolutions proposed by PM and expels 14 members of the ‘New Likud’ faction, accused of being left-wing infiltrators

By Raoul Wootliff

Reuven Rivlin begins the first visit by an Israeli president to Ethiopia, May 1, 2018. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

May 1, 2018, 8:13 pm

Rivlin lands in Ethiopia for first visit by an Israeli president

Set to meet with Falash Mura community waiting to emigrate to Israel, president tells welcoming committee he is ‘returning the visit’ of the biblical Queen of Sheba to King Solomon

By Sue Surkes

Ethiopian Jews make matzah by hand in the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia on March 21, 2018. (courtesy)

March 21, 2018, 4:03 pm

Despite government approval, still no funds for Ethiopian immigration

In repeat of 2017’s challenges, last week‘s budget did not allocate money for integrating the community in Israel, delaying flights again

By Melanie Lidman

In this Wednesday, February 28, 2018 file photo, Snteayw Girmaw holds a photo of her sister Zemenech Bililin, wearing Israeli military uniform, during a solidarity event at the synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

March 10, 2018, 10:32 am

Ethiopian-Israelis decry separation from relatives as discriminatory

Immigrants say government’s resistance to bringing in family members suggests prejudice; Israel ambivalent about relatives in Ethiopia less connected to Judaism

By Tia Goldenberg

Family members embrace at Ben Gurion Airport as 72 new immigrants from Ethiopia arrive on June 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

December 28, 2017, 5:59 pm

Last planned flight of Ethiopian immigrants to arrive amid funding scramble

Government meets goal of bringing 1,300 Ethiopian Jews to Israel this year, but funding has not yet been allocated to bring the same number in 2018

By Melanie Lidman

Israeli MKs Oded Forer and Avraham Neguise with Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) at a Capitol Hill event on November 15 launching announcing "joint principles" to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Courtesy)

November 16, 2017, 6:58 pm

US and Israeli right-wing lawmakers scorn ‘Palestinian rejectionism’

On Capitol Hill, GOP House members and visiting MKs release a ‘joint declaration’ on the conflict as Trump moves forward with peace push

By Eric Cortellessa

German Ambassador to Israel Clemens von Goetze (L), Austrian Ambassador to Israel Martin Weiss (2L), and Deputy UK Ambassador to Israel Tony Kay (R) attend a Knesset hearing on October 30, 2017 (Times of Israel)

October 30, 2017, 2:15 pm

US skips Knesset meeting on rising anti-Semitism

Hearing attended by representatives of Germany, Austria, UK and France; Zionist Union MK laments ‘very disappointing’ stayaway by American officials

By Marissa Newman

A young girl sits in the dentist chair. (Illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

June 28, 2017, 8:03 am

Brazilian health professionals protest Israel’s work permit delays

Some new immigrant dentists waiting over a year, without answers, to have qualifications validated

By JTA

MK Oren Hazan reacts at a plenum session in the assembly hall of Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 7, 2017, 12:44 pm

Likud MKs fume over insulted intelligence

Zionist Union’s Mickey Rosenthal comes under fire for mocking the IQs of the bottom third of the ruling party’s slate

By Jacob Magid

Damas Pakada, an Ethiopian-born IDF soldier who was assaulted by police in Holon on Sunday, April 27, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

April 9, 2017, 8:05 am

Ethiopian-Israeli soldier beaten by cop seeks to block plea deal

Damas Pakada files petition to force his attacker to face criminal charges, calls for indictment over racial assault

By TOI staff

File: Video footage showing policemen pummeling an Ethiopian-born IDF soldier, Damas Pakada, who alleged he was the target of a racist attack. (screen capture: YouTube)

March 20, 2017, 11:15 pm

Deal offered to cop accused of beating Ethiopian soldier

AG to top court: No criminal trial if officer suspected of assaulting Damas Pakada in 2016 admits to charges

By Sue Surkes

Members of Gondar's Jewish community attend gathering hosted by a cross-party delegation of Knesset members to Ethiopia, March 3, 2017. (Courtesy)

March 7, 2017, 6:50 pm

Despite promises, Ethiopian immigration still stalled as Israelis pass the buck

Eight months after decision to airlift 1,300 from dwindling Jewish community, officials have not processed a single request; reasons cited include lack of air conditioning in Addis Ababa embassy

By Raoul Wootliff and Melanie Lidman

Police clash with Ethiopian Israelis taking part in a violent protest against what they say is police and government mistreatment, January 28, 1996. (Flash90)

January 11, 2017, 10:39 am

Ethiopian Israelis will be able to donate blood without restrictions

Decades-long ban preventing Jews from Ethiopia giving blood over HIV/AIDS fears to be lifted July 1

By JTA