Dan Meridor

Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on April 3, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

June 24, 2019, 12:45 am

Ehud Barak said looking to partner with ex-general Yair Golan to form new party

Former PM and deputy chief of staff trying to recruit a team of veteran politicians, including Tzipi Livni, to run together in September 17 elections

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud Minister Dan Meridor at a party meeting in the Knesset in September 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 23, 2019, 3:52 pm

Former justice minister for Likud warns of Netanyahu ‘dictatorship’

Dan Meridor blasts plan that seeks to curb the court’s power and ensure PM’s immunity from prosecution, saying it would ‘bulldoze’ the legal system and erode democracy

By Michael Bachner and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) takes part in a toast with his wife and Likud lawmakers during an event in Tel Aviv held by the ruling party to mark the Jewish new year's, on September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

February 25, 2019, 9:42 pm

Numerous Likud MKs support, none oppose, PM’s empowering of extremist party

Other lawmakers from ruling party decline to comment on Otzma Yehudit-Jewish Home merger orchestrated by Netanyahu

By Jacob Magid

Head of the Hatnua party MK Tzipi Livni speaks at the campaign opening event of in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Flash90)

February 18, 2019, 10:40 am

Amid dismal poll predictions, Livni set to announce retirement from politics

After failing to secure center-left bloc, Hatnua leader expected to say she doesn’t want votes wasted if party won’t pass electoral threshold in April election

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara, second left, host Polish President Andrzej Duda, second right, and his wife Agata, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 18, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 30, 2019, 2:24 pm

As Israel warms ties in Eastern Europe, is Holocaust memory now disposable?

A chorus of Jewish politicians and scholars warn against Israeli realpolitik clouding historically accurate depictions of World War II war crimes

By Sam Sokol

Dan Meridor, left, onstage at a highly protested event at King's College London, February 13, 2018. (Courtesy Pinsker Centre)

February 16, 2018, 6:36 am

Dan Meridor welcomed with shouts of ‘Shame,’ protests at London university event

Speaking at King’s College, the former Israeli deputy prime minister’s hopes that demonstrators would engage in ‘civilized discussion’ were dashed by 90 minutes of screaming

By Jenni Frazer

Former Likud minister Dan Meridor attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on October 15, 2013. (Flash90)

February 14, 2018, 8:30 pm

Ex-Israeli minister decried as ‘war criminal’ at London university

World Jewish Congress condemns protesters’ treatment of Dan Meridor during talk at Kings College

By JTA

Dan Meridor in 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

February 2, 2018, 9:02 pm

Police said to take testimony from former ministers Meridor, Mofaz in sub affair

Officials looking back to Netanyahu’s 2009-2013 government as they seek background on bribery charges, Hadashot news reports

By TOI staff

Carl Bernstein speaks at a Jerusalem conference on the Freedom of the Press, May 8, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)

May 9, 2017, 5:58 am

Carl Bernstein calls Israel the ‘epicenter’ of today’s geopolitics

At conference in Jerusalem on global press freedom, Watergate reporter says any journalist who wants to understand the world needs to understand Israel

By David Horovitz

January 29, 2017, 9:32 pm

Ex-deputy PM slams Netanyahu for silence on US’s Muslim ban

Israel should be guided by Jewish values and not political expediency, former Likud stalwart Dan Meridor charges

By Raphael Ahren

US President Barack Obama (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

September 18, 2016, 6:07 am

US official: It’s possible Iran deal animus affected military aid agreement

10-year aid package leads to domestic Israeli political infighting as opposition charges Netanyahu could have gotten more

By TOI staff

Israel's Acting National Security Adviser Yaakov Nagel in Washington to sign the aid deal with the US on September 14, 2016 (screen capture: State Department livestream)

September 18, 2016, 2:43 am

Top official slams politicians’ criticism of US aid deal

Acting National Security Adviser Yaakov Nagel, who led Israel’s negotiating team, lashes Netanyahu critics as ‘detached from reality’

By TOI staff

September 14, 2016, 7:07 pm

Opposition MKs: PM’s frosty relations with US reduced military aid

Lawmakers say Netanyahu’s spats with Obama led to weaker defense deal than Israel could have secured

By Tamar Pileggi

Labor Party campaign stickers saying "Bibi is good for the rich, Shelly is good for me" posted on top of a campaign poster depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

September 12, 2016, 11:48 pm

Panel calls for shake-up of election campaigning in Israel

Committee advocates ban on racist, inciting campaigns, wants more transparent polling, but limited TV ads

By Sue Surkes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his French counterpart, Manuel Valls, in Jerusalem on Monday, May 23, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

May 31, 2016, 5:11 am

Israel braces itself for Paris peace confab… by doing nothing

While Jerusalem pooh-poohs French initiative, Ramallah hopes it can shift ‘the inequitable power dynamic’ in its favor

By Raphael Ahren