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Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, on March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2020, 12:33 pm
Liberman: Ultra-Orthodox politicians ‘endangering public health’
Yisrael Beytenu chair berates Haredi political leadership after both Netanyahu and Rivlin warn against blaming community for coronavirus outbreak
By Raoul Wootliff
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
April 5, 2020, 8:53 pm
Netanyahu slams ‘wild incitement’ against ultra-Orthodox amid pandemic
PM’s denunciation comes at height of furious social media campaign against Channel 12 and its reporter Rina Matzliah, who said community does not respect state’s authority
By Michael Bachner
Palestinian health professionals standing in a quarantine facility in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on April 3, 2020. (Credit: Wafa)
April 3, 2020, 11:29 pm
PA announces 22 new virus cases, raising total of confirmed infections to 193
PM Shtayyeh says Israeli Health Ministry apologized to PA for ‘unofficial statements,’ in apparent reference to report about Israel needing to ‘medically annex’ West Bank
By Adam Rasgon
Security forces and municipality workers outside a building targeted by an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus' Mazzeh neighborhood overnight on November 12, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
March 1, 2020, 8:34 am
Defense minister admits for first time Israel behind November Syria strike
Bennett reveals during TV interview that IDF ‘struck in Damascus’ on November 12, an hour after attack in Gaza that touched off a round of violence
By TOI staff
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (L) walks out of an interview with Channel 12's Rina Matzliah on February 28, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
February 28, 2020, 7:58 pm
Bennett storms out of TV interview after feud with host over rocket statistics
Channel 12 says defense minister left studio after refusing to address his inaccurate statistics on Gaza missiles; he claims interviewer trying to hurt his party ahead of election
By TOI staff
Then-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Jerusalem, on November 17, 2008. (Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)
February 6, 2020, 8:14 pm
Olmert to join Abbas in US press conference next week, Palestinian envoy says
Television station reports former Israeli premier expected to state his opposition to Trump’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Adam Rasgon
Meretz MK Issawi Freij seen here in a Meretz event from December 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
January 13, 2020, 10:41 pm
Ex-MK blasts Meretz-Labor merger: ‘Arabs want to be partners. Not decorations’
Issawi Frej, pushed down to No.11 on newly unified list, accuses Meretz chief Horowitz, who brokered deal with Labor-Gesher, of acting against his party’s principles
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 30, 2019, 9:40 pm
‘A strange paradox’: Abbas derides Israel for softening on Hamas, punishing PA
PA president says informal ceasefire understandings with Gaza rulers are being implemented while PA is ‘squeezed’ on a daily basis
By Adam Rasgon
Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at an election event in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
October 19, 2019, 1:40 am
Yair Netanyahu calls to boycott firms that advertise on Israel’s top TV channels
PM’s son lashes out at Channels 12 and 13 after journalists pray for the ‘end of the Netanyahu era’ on live broadcast
By TOI staff
Blue and White leader MK Benny Gantz speaks at a Channel 12 News conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 5, 2019, 4:07 pm
Gantz derides Netanyahu’s jet-setting diplomacy as futile, self-serving
Blue and White leader says Trump, Putin do what they want and not what Israel demands; accuses new state comptroller of serving PM
By Raoul Wootliff
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a farewell ceremony for former justice minister Ayelet Shaked, at the Justice Ministry offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
September 2, 2019, 10:44 pm
Attorney general says media can publish leaks from cases against Netanyahu
Mandelblit issues legal opinion saying Likud petition against publication of damaging transcripts ahead of elections should be rejected
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, greets students as they wave Israeli flags during a ceremony opening the school year in the settlement of Elkana in the West Bank Sunday, Sep. 1, 2019. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)
September 2, 2019, 4:08 am
Netanyahu infuses campaign with anti-media incitement
As PM battles for political and personal survival, he lashes out at local TV station as taking part in a ‘terror attack against democracy’ and slandering Israel
By Aron Heller
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