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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Carmel Shama-Hacohen

Activists handcuff themselves to handrails on Friday's last light rail ahead of Shabbat, in Tel Aviv, August 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 25, 2023, 6:22 pm
Activists again cuff themselves to Tel Aviv light rail to protest Shabbat stoppage
Several dozen people protest at Allenby Station on day’s last tram, causing service to stop and driver to leave; police on the scene
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of a bus running in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. (Tel Aviv Municipality)
August 21, 2023, 2:52 am
Ramat Gan to launch Shabbat shuttle service along Tel Aviv light route
Mayor’s announcement will likely please residents of his largely secular suburb; comes two months ahead of municipal elections, when he’ll aim to win a second term
By ToI Staff
The Brothers in Arms group holds a protest outside the home of Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Jerusalem, May 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 16, 2023, 12:55 pm
Mayors warn they won’t transfer local taxes to coalition’s contentious planned fund
Municipal leaders of Givatayim and Ramat Gan say they’ll take matter to court; strike continues, but children return to school; protesters rally outside housing minister’s home
By ToI Staff
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 17, 2022, 8:33 am
School principal faces ministry probe for slamming Ben Gvir at Rabin memorial event
Education Ministry to summon Merav Schreiber for saying far-right leader’s potential appointment as public security minister will raise danger of another political assassination
By ToI Staff
An election campaign poster of Otzma Yehudit in Ramat Gan, September 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 28, 2022, 3:11 pm
Mayor won’t remove Ben Gvir party poster calling to ‘banish enemy’ Arab faction MKs
Ramat Gan council chief says Otzma Yehudit billboard over highway can stay unless he’s ordered otherwise; deputy mayor files police complaint; MK says it’s ‘incitement to murder’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian flag is removed from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
June 1, 2022, 5:03 pm
Palestinian flag comes off Ramat Gan tower after outcry
Left-wing group says it hung flags in support of coexistence; police reportedly warned city there could be ‘disturbances of the peace’
By ToI Staff
Carmel Shama-Hacohen, mayor of Ramat Gan, attends a convention for newly elected mayors and local council heads, in Ashkelon, November 27, 2018. (Flash90)
April 28, 2022, 5:05 pm
Mayor under fire for saying it was ‘easiest to despair, be killed in Holocaust’
Ramat Gan’s Carmel Shama-Hacohen goes on to remark at Remembrance Day ceremony that ‘the hardest part was surviving hardships and establishing a state’
By Michael Horovitz
The entrance to the Ramat Gam Museum of Israeli Art. (Talmoryair/Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 13, 2022, 9:19 am
Ramat Gan art museum shuts its doors due to feud over controversial painting
Gallery says it was unable to reach a compromise with artists who pulled their works in protest at removal of installation deemed offensive to ultra-Orthodox
By ToI Staff
The outside of the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan. (Talmoryair/Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 2, 2022, 11:55 am
Artists feud with Ramat Gan museum over painting removed for slur against Haredim
Dozens of artists demand their works be removed until exhibit by David Reeb — captioned ‘Jerusalem of gold, Jerusalem of shit’ alongside photo of ultra-Orthodox man — is returned
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of the Aluf Sade interchange, December 28, 2020. (Netivei Israel)
December 28, 2020, 5:59 pm
Lockdown lite: Closure sees patchy compliance, has little impact on traffic
Cellphone provider finds just 18% drop in use of navigation app, barely half the fall for previous closures; buses packed as service cut 50%; Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda partly open
By ToI Staff
Knesset members Yoaz Hendel (L) and Zvi Hauser (R) seen at the Knesset, ahead of the opening session of the new parliament on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 9, 2020, 7:10 pm
Sa’ar party gets first boost as Derech Eretz MKs Hendel, Hauser join up
Self-described right-wing MKs lament lack of leadership from Netanyahu, who they say has become obsessed with his own legal and political survival: ‘This government has failed’
By Raoul Wootliff
Then-Blue and White party MKs Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 9, 2020, 11:03 am
More MKs expected to join Sa’ar’s party, which poll predicts will be 3rd biggest
Both Derech Eretz lawmakers seem set to back Likud MK, who’s forming a movement to challenge Netanyahu for premiership; colleagues from Likud may follow
By Stuart Winer
A closed school in the northern city of Safed, March 13, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 1, 2020, 1:45 pm
Grades 1-3 and 11-12 to open Sunday, but kindergartens will stay shut for a week
Remaining students set to return June 1; ultra-Orthodox schools to open grades 7-12 instead; Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan say schools won’t yet reopen in those municipalities
By ToI Staff
Ramat Gan municipal workers put up a fence to block pedestrians from neighboring Bnei Brak, April 6, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet)
April 6, 2020, 1:11 pm
Ramat Gan erects fences to block Bnei Brak residents, is ordered to remove them
Interior Ministry: Municipality not authorized to stop foot traffic from virus-stricken neighbor; Bnei Brak mayor decries ‘ghetto’
By ToI Staff
Israelis enjoy the Tel Aviv beach on Election Day, September 17, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 23, 2019, 10:37 am
Tel Aviv leads ranking of Israel’s ‘freest’ cities, Bnei Brak is last
Report by religious pluralism group criticizes Haredi city for failing to offer secular funerals or restrict separate-gender events; Ramat Gan wins most-improved
By ToI Staff
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