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Meretz parliament member Ilan Gilon at faction meeting in the Knesset, on May 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

November 6, 2018, 12:18 pm

Wheelchair-bound MK fires back after Likud lawmaker mocks his disability

Meretz’s Ilan Gilon says children should ‘feel very bad’ that Oren Hazan, who called him ‘half a human,’ is a member of Knesset

By TOI staff

Illustrative photo of police in the Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem, July 24, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

October 10, 2018, 12:19 pm

Homeless man who set himself on fire in Jerusalem dies of his injuries

Hospital says patient was treated for extensive burns in intensive care unit; circumstances and motive of self-immolation not clear

By TOI staff

Dozens of activists close Tel Aviv's Azrieli Junction for an hour on August 28, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

August 28, 2018, 11:01 pm

Disabled protesters block major Tel Aviv roads demanding benefits boost

Hundreds of activists halt traffic on Ayalon Highway and junction near Azrieli Towers, causing jams in battle for allowances to match minimum wage

By TOI staff

Disabled protesters block traffic at Ben Gurion Airport to call for higher monthly benefits on August 7, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

August 7, 2018, 1:22 pm

Disabled protesters snarl car traffic at Ben Gurion Airport

No reported delays to flights as police reopen road out of airport after hour-long demonstration

By TOI staff

A handful of wheelchair-bound protesters close Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway for an hour on June 28, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

June 28, 2018, 8:16 pm

Disabled protesters block major TA highway demanding benefits increase

Handful of wheelchair-bound activists halt traffic for an hour, causing miles-long jams in battle for allowances to match minimum wage

By TOI staff

Police officers detain an activist during a protest of disabled people and activists, calling for better health care and allowances in Tel Aviv on May 31, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

May 31, 2018, 11:29 pm

Disabled protesters demanding higher living stipends block major TA highway

Activists and demonstrators in wheelchairs battle for allowances to match minimum wage

By TOI staff

Disabled activists protesting in central Jerusalem on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 13, 2018, 1:59 am

Knesset raises disability benefits as protesters push for bigger boost

Measure increasing monthly stipend by several hundred shekels at cost of NIS 4.3 billion passes 84-0; demonstrators urge lawmakers to vote against bill, saying it is too small

By TOI staff

Wheelchair-bound Palestinian demonstrator Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, waving a Palestinian flag during a protest along the Gaza-Israel border on December 15, 2017, as clashes with Israeli security forces against Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital intensified. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

January 15, 2018, 9:01 pm

Autopsy shows Israeli fire killed disabled Palestinian protester — Hamas

Terror organization plans to tell International Criminal Court that bullet shot from 30 meters entered above Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh’s left eye and lodged in his head

By Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Welfare Minister Haim Katz at a press conference announcing the raising of disability allowances, January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 3, 2018, 5:30 pm

Ministers raise 2018 disability benefits budget by NIS 2 billion

PM and welfare minister call move ‘historic step’; protest leaders scoff at ‘nicely packaged gift with nothing inside,’ say they won’t ultimately get more than previously agreed

By Raoul Wootliff

Disabled people and their supporters block the entrance to Jerusalem in protest of inadequate stipends, September 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

December 24, 2017, 11:40 pm

Cabinet approves NIS 1.45 billion budget increase for disabled

Additional aspects of long-sought agreement to be hammered out in budget negotiations next month

By TOI staff

Businesswoman Nicol Raidman, right, speaks with disabled rights protester Hannah Akiva, center, and other activists at the entrance to the Prime Minister's Residence, Jerusalem, October 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 18, 2017, 12:58 pm

Socialite stuns disabled-rights protester by handing her a wad of cash

Nicol Raidman came to visit her friend Sara Netanyahu when she encountered the demonstrators outside the PM’s residence

By TOI staff

File: Disabled protesters demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem as part of protests calling for an increase in monthly disability benefits, on October 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 17, 2017, 7:44 pm

Disabled protesters demonstrate outside PM’s residence

Friend of the Netanyahu family gives cash to a participant in rally demanding increase in disability benefits

By TOI staff

Disabled activists block a road in Jerusalem as part of their campaign for better benefits, October 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 15, 2017, 10:14 am

IDF veterans join campaign for higher disability benefits

Wheelchair-bound protesters block major coastal road, after counter-demonstration held in favor of Finance Ministry deal

By TOI staff

Disabled, handicapped and activists block the entrance to Jerusalem as they attend a protest calling for better health care, September 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 4, 2017, 12:30 am

Disabled rights protesters block roads, vow to continue campaign

Demonstrators rejecting stipend-boosting deal with government fined after causing havoc at Ashdod port and major arteries south of Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer

October 1, 2017, 3:44 pm

Not out of the jam yet

As officials celebrate an agreement to end protests by road-blocking disabled activists, cracks already start to form in the supposed ‘historic’ deal

By Joshua Davidovich