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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Boaz Bismuth

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset on December 31, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg / Flash 90)
January 4, 2025, 11:00 pm
Ben Gvir apologizes to Netanyahu, Bismuth for forcing them to attend Knesset vote
Far-right minister says he ‘did some soul-searching,’ was wrong to compel PM to rush from hospital after surgery, Likud MK to leave shiva; but also pledges to continue voting against coalition
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left), and Shas pary leader Aryeh Deri seen during a Knesset vote on a budget-related law, December 31, 2024. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who opposed the legislation, is at bottom right with back to camera. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 31, 2024, 11:22 pm
PM leaves hospital to cast decisive vote on a budget law, thwarting Ben Gvir revolt
Netanyahu enables passage of bill that will end tax exemption on companies’ ‘trapped profits’ that are reinvested, after coalition convinces several would-be rebels to back measure
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Boaz Bismuth at the Knesset's introductory session for freshman lawmakers, a day before opening session of the 25th Knesset, November 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 1, 2024, 3:46 am
Lawmakers behind UNRWA ban dismiss international criticism as ‘misplaced’
There’s ‘plenty of transition time’ for other groups to replace the UN agency for Palestinians, says Likud MK Illouz, adding that ‘our goal is not to stop the humanitarian aid’
By Sam Sokol
A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
October 29, 2024, 1:59 am
Knesset approves laws barring UNRWA from Israel, limiting it in Gaza and West Bank
Bucking global pressure, MKs overwhelmingly back legislation against UN Palestinian refugee agency over staffers’ terror links; PM’s office: Ready to work with world on Gaza aid
By Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid
A man carries a humanitarian aid package provided by UNRWA in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
October 25, 2024, 3:45 pm
Israel set to pass laws Monday that will heavily restrict UNRWA in Gaza, West Bank
MKs set to prevent UN’s Palestinian refugee agency from operating in Israel, close Gaza and West Bank access points to it, radically complicating its work there; US, UN, EU object
By Sam Sokol
File — Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 11:54 pm
In clips with Arabic subtitles, Jerusalem rabbis condemn Jewish prayer at Temple Mount
After Ben Gvir says it’s ‘policy’ to allow Jewish prayer at contested site, over PM’s denials, spiritual leaders slam ‘radical fringes,’ affirm ruling Jews should stay away entirely
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 2, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
July 2, 2024, 11:38 pm
Knesset committee discusses trio of bills aimed at shutting down UNRWA
Proposed legislation would ban UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating in Israel, remove employees’ legal immunities and brand it a terrorist organization
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video message issued June 19, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)
June 19, 2024, 9:46 pm
Amid multiplying spats, Netanyahu urges coalition partners to ‘get a grip’
PM says government members must set aside ‘partisan interests’ and unite around war effort in Gaza, as he faces Haredi anger, public row with Ben Gvir, dissent from Barkat
By ToI Staff
Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
Hardline MKs demand review of alleged IDF report on settler violence
Right-wing members of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee rail against ‘comprehensive and false’ campaign against settlers, say it causes ‘enormous political damage’
By Sam Sokol
Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israel Hayom editor Boaz Bismuth speak at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)
April 22, 2023, 12:39 am
Netanyahu said weighing appointing Likud MK Bismuth as ambassador to France
Former French national only recently became a lawmaker after decades in media world and brief stint as envoy in Mauritania
By ToI Staff
Visitors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem light memorial candles dedicated to individuals killed in the Holocaust, April 17, 2023. (Yad Vashem)
April 18, 2023, 1:56 pm
Daily Briefing Apr 18: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, politics seep into sacred space
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren unpacks what is happening in Labor; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on MDA tracing services and a grassroots effort to shine up stumbling stones
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (left) is heckled during a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)
April 18, 2023, 4:34 am
Likud MK shouted down by anti-coalition hecklers at Holocaust Remembrance Day event
Several members of audience at Tel Aviv synagogue yell, ‘shame,’ at Boaz Bismuth while others demand they stop interrupting; Gantz condemns ‘heartbreaking’ incident
By ToI Staff
Israelis stand still next to their cars on a freeway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 28, 2022 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 18, 2023, 3:12 am
Israelis to pause in memory of 6 million Jews killed in Holocaust
Outdoor life grinds to a halt at 10 a.m. as two-minute siren wails; Herzog, Netanyahu, Hayut and survivors to lay wreaths at Yad Vashem ceremony
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the main Holocaust memorial day ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
April 17, 2023, 10:30 pm
As Israel remembers Holocaust, Herzog says commemoration must be ‘above all dispute’
At Yad Vashem, president urges Israelis to set aside overhaul tensions for national days of unity, pans Nazi comparisons; Netanyahu says past victories don’t ensure future wins
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog presents Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form the next government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 7, 2023, 1:53 pm
Herzog says leaked judicial compromise plan isn’t final; MKs on both sides slam it
After Hebrew media publishes elements of proposal, president’s office says it’s only one of many, and he hasn’t endorsed it; Bennett praises it, while left and right lawmakers fume
By Ash Obel
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