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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Boaz Toporovsky

Transportation Minister Miri Regev arrives for a government meeting on Jerusalem Day at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2024, 4:39 pm
Police raid Transportation Ministry offices amid probe of alleged corruption
Cops seize documents but don’t say if Minister Miri Regev is a suspect; ministry dismisses allegations, insists officers are searching for files ‘that don’t exist’
By ToI Staff
Heavy traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 30, 2024, 7:58 pm
Massive traffic as central Israel highway closes for 24 hours under Haredi pressure
Major project to install pedestrian bridge over Ayalon Highway carried out overnight Thursday-Friday as ultra-Orthodox prevent work on weekend, which would violate Shabbat
By Stuart Winer
The control room at the offices of the Kan public broadcaster in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 11:02 am
Likud said looking to shut Kan public broadcaster’s news division
Party says move not part of coalition talks; Netanyahu, other party members have long opposed news division; opposition MK: ‘1st lesson in school of dictators… silence the media’
By ToI Staff
Likud party MKs speak to the press after meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 9, 2022, 9:18 pm
Likud says it will form government ‘quickly,’ as Herzog consults parties on PM pick
Yariv Levin tells president talks over reforms only valid if not being used as a delay tactic, as pre-ordained process kicks off ahead of Netanyahu being handed mandate Sunday
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
MK Boaz Toporovsky attends a Knesset Constitutional Committee meeting to discuss the so-called Criminal Defendant Bill and the Knesset dispersal bill, June 26, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 4, 2022, 5:00 am
Decade-old Yesh Atid has evolved into a ruling party, says coalition whip Toporovsky
A founding member of Lapid’s 10-year-old ‘political startup,’ MK says his party has learned from experience, while power has ‘confused’ Likud and Netanyahu has rendered it extreme
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Justice Minister Gideon Saar speaks in the Knsset on July 4, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 4, 2022, 6:09 pm
Bills on US visa-free travel, Tel Aviv metro nixed on last Knesset day before recess
Likud-led opposition rejects the coalition’s pleas to pass two key pieces of legislation; two other bills pass first readings
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
The assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem ahead of vote to disband parliament, on June 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 23, 2022, 9:13 am
November 1 said emerging as likely date for upcoming Knesset elections
Coalition and opposition lawmakers reportedly closing in on compromise, amid negotiations that also involve contentious bill to bar Netanyahu from becoming PM, other legislation
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a discussion and a vote on the minimum wage at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2022, 9:27 pm
In another blow to coalition, Knesset advances opposition bills to hike minimum wage
Government’s Ra’am party breaks ranks to vote in favor of preliminary legislation from opposition’s Joint List, as imperiled coalition appears headed for a collapse
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset on May 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 9, 2022, 7:04 pm
As Knesset reopens, bloodied coalition insists unity can keep it alive
Ruling bloc heads urge cooperation to stave off no-confidence votes with government in crisis; Netanyahu claims days numbered for Bennett’s rule
By ToI Staff, Carrie Keller-Lynn and AP
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem on May 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 8, 2022, 11:24 pm
Meeting with coalition chiefs amid crisis, Bennett vows government won’t fall
Islamist Ra’am party skips meeting; party leaders nominate Yesh Atid MK Toporovsky as temporary coalition whip, discuss upcoming legislation, including state budget
By ToI Staff
Idit Silman leads a Health Committee meeting at the Knesset, on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2022, 10:56 am
After departing whip cracked coalition, finding a new one is proving a challenge
Yamina MK Orbach threatens to follow defector Silman, whose husband reportedly claims he was offered a ‘senior political position’ by Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Then-defense minister Benny Gantz and then-outgoing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Knesset plenum, June 13, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
December 20, 2021, 9:26 pm
Coalition flogs Netanyahu over English-language attack ad
Both accuse each other of endangering Israeli democracy as sides spar over whether criticism of government policy should be aired outside country’s borders
By ToI Staff
MK David Amsalem (Likud) speaks during a plenary session at the assembly of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 30, 2021, 11:58 am
‘You need hospitalization,’ Likud MK lashes out at deputy coalition whip
David Amsalem’s remark to Boaz Toporovsky at Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting comes day after another opposition MK told coalition whip Silman to answer ‘like a good girl’
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (2L) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar (2R) in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
June 21, 2021, 11:26 pm
Coalition meeting on Palestinian family reunification ends without breakthrough
PM Bennett meets with Interior Minister Shaked, Ra’am chief Abbas, New Hope’s Elkin, after vote to extend law postponed due to impasse
By ToI Staff
Blue and White number two Yair Lapid at a party campaign event for English speakers in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2019. (Hannah Harnest/Times of Israel)
July 3, 2019, 1:40 pm
Touting ‘democratic values,’ Blue and White starts wooing ‘Anglo’ voters
Centrist party holds first English-language campaign event ahead of September elections
By Hannah Harnest and Raoul Wootliff
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