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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Dina Zilber

Israelis swim at Gan HaShlosha National Park (also known as Sachne) in northern Israel, September 9, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 10, 2023, 11:30 am
Fear and frustration run deep around sex-segregated swimming plan at natural springs
An attempt to accommodate summertime Haredi visits to nature reserves is adding heat to the raging fight over Israel’s character
By Canaan Lidor
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 17, 2020, 7:32 pm
Civil Service chief urges AG to take action against deputy for panning Netanyahu
Daniel Hershkowitz takes severe view of Dina Zilber’s scathing broadside in which she accused PM of echoing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Mandelblit summons her for meeting
By Michael Bachner
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber at a meeting of the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 15, 2020, 9:53 pm
Deputy AG likens Netanyahu’s attacks on judiciary to Protocols of Elders of Zion
Dina Zilber launches scathing broadside against ‘fake leader,’ says PM’s constant claims the cases against him are a witchhunt echo notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy
By Michael Bachner
Former Supreme Court chief justice Aharon Barak speaks at the funeral service for late former chief justice Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on October 22, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 7, 2019, 5:36 am
Former Supreme Court president Barak: Israeli democracy is ‘on a slippery slope’
Majority rule in Israel threatening to overrun individual rights, ex-court chief warns; deputy AG says attacks on judiciary have gone from fringes to mainstream
By ToI Staff
Simcha Rothman of the Israeli Movement for Governability and Democracy (Meshilut) speaks in front of a slide bearing the image of Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at the Israeli Conservatism Conference, May 16, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
June 5, 2019, 11:00 am
Meet the conservative activists who want to override the Supreme Court
The right wing is energetic, well-funded, and, as a recent Jerusalem confab showed, determined to rein in a judicial system it sees as controlled by liberal elites
By Simona Weinglass
National Union MK Bezalel Smotrich, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2019, 11:46 pm
Smotrich urges end to ‘insane secular coercion’ as gender-segregated event nixed
MK vows legislation to end attempts to ‘reeducate the religious public’ after Holon municipality compelled to allow mixed seating at Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with his then-aide Natan Eshel, on August 28, 2011. (Amit Shabi/pool/Flash90/File)
April 21, 2019, 10:38 pm
Despite protests, PM aide who quit over sexual misconduct joins coalition talks
No legal impediment to Natan Eshel participating in negotiations, says deputy AG, after women’s groups say it’s ‘spitting in the faces of women’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 21, 2019, 2:26 pm
Yisrael Beytenu, Likud officials powwow as coalition talks kick off
No agreement reached on ultra-Orthodox enlistment; Netanyahu associate previously embroiled in sexual misconduct scandal allowed to join talks
By ToI Staff
An artwork called "McJesus," which was sculpted by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen and depicts a crucified Ronald McDonald, is seen on display as part of the Haifa museum's "Sacred Goods" exhibit, in Haifa, Israel, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Hundreds of Christians calling for the sculpture's removal protested at the museum last week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 15, 2019, 7:21 pm
Deputy AG says minister can’t cut museum’s budget over ‘McJesus’ art
Dina Zilber informs Miri Regev that law doesn’t allow for money to be withheld over ‘insult to religious feelings’
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a Knesset State Control Committee meeting on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 3, 2018, 1:42 pm
In Knesset, defiant AG takes stand against hot-button coalition positions
Mandelblit defends under-fire deputy’s committee appearance, backs vetting commission decision to block new police chief and says investigations into PM conducted ‘professionally’
By Raoul Wootliff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 2, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)
December 2, 2018, 11:27 pm
Justice minister to appear at Knesset hearing to prevent deputy AG from doing so
Ayelet Shaked has vowed that Dina Zilber will no longer represent government in parliament following latter’s criticism of legislation
By ToI Staff
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber speaks at a Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting on the proposed "Loyalty in Culture" bill, which will limit state financial support for art deemed antithetical to the state's interests, at the Knesset on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 27, 2018, 2:59 pm
Deputy AG returning to Knesset despite opposition from justice minister
Dina Zilber to represent attorney general at upcoming committee meeting, weeks after Shaked called for her ouster over her criticism of government legislation
By ToI Staff
Then-attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, left, and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked at a ceremony in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 20, 2018, 4:05 pm
Attorney general sends controversial deputy to Knesset, testing minister’s ire
Mandelblit to be represented by deputy Dina Zilber at State Control Committee, after her criticism two weeks earlier drew fire from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked
By ToI Staff
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 15, 2018, 6:14 pm
AG dresses down embattled deputy over her criticism of loyalty bill
After Avichai Mandelblit tells Dina Zilber to ‘refrain from similar remarks’ in the future, justice minister says she won’t allow Zilber to attend Knesset meetings
By Michael Bachner
Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber, at the Knesset, on January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
November 12, 2018, 8:35 pm
AG says deputy embattled after spat with minister won’t attend committee meeting
Dina Zilber to be barred from most Knesset discussions pending investigation, after justice minister called for her ouster
By ToI Staff
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