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US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Trump listens to a question from a reporter at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)
August 10, 2026, 11:57 pm
Netanyahu reserves Likud spot for candidate who recently called Trump a ‘morally corrupt piece of shit’
Oren Dobronsky, who slammed US president over Iran MOU, attempts damage control, calling him Israel’s ‘greatest friend’ in White House; PM’s party to seat its first-ever Haredi MK
By Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
MK Dan Illouz (L) stands with Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman after joining the party following his resignation from Likud, on August 5, 2026. (Yisrael Beytenu)
August 5, 2026, 11:46 pm
Rebel Likud MK Dan Illouz joins Yisrael Beytenu, touts its ‘national and liberal values’
Liberman welcomes ‘principled’ right-wing ideologue who resigned from ruling party last month over its push to grant draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men
By Sam Sokol
MK Dan Illouz (seated center) speaks at a Knesset House committee meeting, July 7, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2026, 4:07 pm
After quitting Likud, Dan Illouz says party sold out principles to hang onto power
One of Likud’s most conservative former lawmakers says by supporting Haredi draft dodging, Netanyahu abandoned the party’s traditional values in favor of political survival. It won’t work out well, he predicts
By Ariela Karmel
MK Yitzhak Goldknopf, center, alongside Likud's Justice Minister Yariv Levin, left, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, right, during a Knesset vote on a bill to freeze arrests of Haredi draft evaders in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 16, 2026, 4:50 pm
Pyrrhic victory on law banning arrests of draft dodgers could cost Netanyahu coalition at ballot box
Likud and its allies went to mat for an unpopular law meant to shield ultra-Orthodox from military conscription, losing vital support in the name of legislation that is already on its way to being struck down
By Tal Schneider
Likud MK Dan Illouz attends a plenum session in Knesset, July 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2026, 8:15 am
Likud MK resigns, says a third of party MKs wanted to oust Netanyahu after Oct. 7
Dan Illouz says Likud has been ‘hijacked’ by Haredi interests: Efforts to enshrine draft exemption are a ‘disgrace that made it clear to me that my place is no longer in Likud’
By ToI Staff
MK Chili Tropper attends Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 11, 2026, 10:50 pm
Ex-minister Chili Tropper says he will ‘absolutely not’ help Netanyahu form a government
Former Blue and White MK also vows not to join a coalition with Arab or Haredi parties; Mansour Abbas declares Ra’am won’t run on joint ticket with other Arab-majority factions
By Ethan Rubinson and Lazar Berman
MK Dan Illouz speaks during an Economic Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 30, 2025, 8:54 pm
Likud rebel demands changes to ‘toothless’ ultra-Orthodox draft exemption bill
Dan Illouz pans fellow party member Bismuth’s suggestion for regulating community’s enlistment, says he can’t support legislation in its current form
By Sam Sokol
L: MK Avi Maoz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); C: MK Dan Illouz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); R: MK Zvi Sukkot in Moshav Avivim, December 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
September 26, 2025, 1:21 pm
After Trump rejects West Bank annexation, right-wing MKs urge PM to do it anyway
Far-right office-holders say US leader is a friend to Israel, but call on Netanyahu to defy him and ‘apply full sovereignty’ in response to nations recognizing Palestinian state
By ToI Staff
MK Moshe Gafni attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 23, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/FLASH90)
June 25, 2025, 3:13 pm
Senior Haredi lawmaker: ‘I don’t understand what we are fighting for in Gaza’
Right-wing lawmakers assail Moshe Gafni, whose party has threatened to bolt Netanyahu’s coalition if it does not pass a law exempting Haredim from IDF service
By Sam Sokol
Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speak in the Knesset, December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 13, 2025, 5:29 am
Why did the Haredim agree to an enlistment plan containing sanctions?
Shas, Degel Hatorah chose to support new outline containing scaled back sanctions in an effort to ‘buy time’ in the face of a pending wave of IDF conscription orders, say experts
By Sam Sokol
United Torah Judaism MKs confer in the Knesset plenum, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
June 4, 2025, 2:59 pm
Elections may loom as senior rabbis tell Haredi UTJ party to bolt coalition
Party’s spiritual leaders, fed up with failure to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from conscription, reportedly refusing to speak with Netanyahu; UTJ would need Shas’s support to bring down government
By Sam Sokol
Then-Knesset Finance Committee chair Moshe Gafni (3rd from left) and other ultra-Orthodox lawmakers pictured in the Knesset as the 2025 state budget law is passed, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 5, 2025, 11:07 pm
Haredi parties to boycott government votes over failure to pass IDF exemption law
Ultra-Orthodox MK warns that if legislation doesn’t pass during current Knesset session, ‘we will have a very big problem sitting in such a government’
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox extremists protest and clash with police outside a conference honoring Haredi soldiers in Jerusalem, January 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 9:08 pm
Shas’s Deri gives government two months to pass law exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF
If the status of yeshiva students is not settled by March ‘we’ll go to elections,’ he warns; Shas MK Taieb says his son will go to jail rather than enlist in IDF
By Sam Sokol
From left to right: Hamas West Bank leader Zaher Jabarin, the chairman of the group's consultative council Mohammed Ismail Darwish, known as Abu Omar Hassan, and senior official Khaled Mashaal receive condolences during the funeral of the terror group's top leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on August 2, 2024. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
November 29, 2024, 6:55 pm
Ministers to discuss law barring ‘terror-supporting’ Qatar from mediating with Hamas
Bill, proposed by MKs from Likud and far-right parties, says Doha is ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’; 2nd bill would let defense minister sanction workers in ‘terror-supporting’ groups
By ToI Staff
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein attends a debate on the government-backed Haredi draft legislation, June 24, 2024. (Noam Moshkovitz/Knesset spokesperson)
November 19, 2024, 4:51 pm
With Gallant gone, Edelstein is the ‘final obstacle’ to Haredi draft exemption law
‘It doesn’t seem feasible at the moment for a law to pass,’ one Haredi coalition member concedes, but says government unlikely to fall over the issue
By Sam Sokol
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