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Eli Avidar

MK Eli Avidar speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on August 15, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
August 31, 2022, 3:22 pm
Former MK’s offer of joint Knesset run rebuffed by social media activist party head
Hadar Muchtar pours cold water on potential alliance with Eli Avidar reportedly due to desire to appeal to broad range of youth, wariness over ex-lawmaker’s opposition to Netanyahu
By Michael Horovitz
Demolition of Ramat Migron outpost in the West Bank, August 30, 2022. (Courtesy Ramat Migron residents)
August 30, 2022, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Aug 30: Defiance at Ramat Migron; parties vying for the Arab vote
Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon discuss Israel’s rightward turn, implications of strange party mashups & a visit to the West Bank
By ToI Staff
MKs Eli Avidar (left) and Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 27, 2022, 11:42 pm
Facing dire polls, ex-Yisrael Beytenu MK Avidar looks to ally with Islamist Ra’am
Spokesman confirms report on talks by Channel 12, while Ra’am silent; Mansour Abbas rules out reunion with Joint List, rips Ayman Odeh
By ToI Staff
MK Eli Avidar speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on August 15, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
August 20, 2022, 2:07 pm
Ex-MK says his new party will push law to outlaw Knesset defectors
Eli Avidar calls for legislation that would prevent repeat of desertions that brought down coalition, vows his Israel Free and Democratic party ‘will run to the end’
By ToI Staff
Eli Avidar attends a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 22, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 8:22 pm
Promising to pursue Netanyahu, libertarian rebel MK Avidar announces own party
Launching Israel Free’s campaign, former Yisrael Beytenu minister blasts ex-allies for not legislating to stop Likud chief retaking power, vows to fight for freedoms, against graft
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Gilad Kariv leads attends a Law and Constitution Committee meeting, during a discussion on preparing proposoals for the "Defendant's Law" and the law to dissolve the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament, on June 26, 2022. (Olivier FItoussi/Flash90)
June 26, 2022, 8:09 pm
Government advances ‘problematic’ bill that would block defendant Netanyahu’s return
Bill barring indicted person from forming government gets coalition backing, though legal adviser raises concerns over proximity to election; earliest possible vote Wednesday
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Gideon Sa'ar, head of the New Hope political party, speaks during the conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2022, 4:26 pm
Sa’ar’s flagship PM-term-limit legislation dies, because coalition lacks the votes
Bill to limit a prime minister to 8 years requires 61 MKs to pass, but coalition has only 60; should gov’t want to revive it, entire legislative process would have to start over
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindros (left) speaks during a panel held for Israel's 74th Independence Day at the Nehora high school yeshiva in the West Bank. Alongside him is Religious Zionism party MK Simcha Rothman, May 5, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
May 9, 2022, 2:00 pm
Haredi lawmaker says his dream is to ‘blow up’ the Supreme Court
Coalition lawmakers and former justices slam ‘shocking’ remarks made by MK Yitzhak Pindrus of United Torah Judaism during an Independence Day panel
By Tobias Siegal
Eli Avidar speaks at a press conference at the Knesset, February 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 18, 2022, 9:51 pm
Maverick Yisrael Beytenu MK plans to form new, center-right party
A month after cabinet resignation and with blessing of ex-PM Barak, Eli Avidar will hold gathering of supporters at his home and make pitch for new faction to run in next election
By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left), Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center), and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attend a plenum session in the Knesset, on January 31, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 23, 2022, 11:13 am
‘We’re not just decoration’: New coalition blows are warnings, not yet crisis points
Deeper frustrations than pensions underlie Blue and White’s voting strike, as the party joins resigning minister Eli Avidar in feeling that they always give, but rarely get
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Minister Eli Avidar speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 11:03 am
Avidar resigns as minister; says PM aping Netanyahu, won’t honor rotation with Lapid
Blow for gov’t as Yisrael Beytenu maverick returns to Knesset, where his vote may be vital on any bill; claims coalition focused on ‘selfies, TikTok’ as opposition works to oust it
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar in the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 27, 2021, 3:28 pm
Minister says Bennett not ‘fulfilling his potential’ as leader of change government
Yisrael Beytenu’s Eli Avidar asserts state of democracy ‘as bad as it was’ under Netanyahu, suggests coalition members should veto PM’s bills if he doesn’t support theirs
By ToI Staff
MK Nachman Shai attends a Knesset committee meeting, on November 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 12, 2021, 5:33 am
Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai said in running to head Jewish Agency
Labor lawmaker’s portfolio would be transferred to Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar, appeasing the renegade lawmaker and solving question of Agency leadership after uproar last month
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 3, 2021, 10:37 pm
Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar becomes minister after threats to break with coalition
Rebel lawmaker gets ‘strategic planning’ portfolio in PM’s office, quits parliament under so-called Norwegian Law
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)
July 25, 2021, 3:55 pm
Cabinet approves Yisrael Beytenu’s Avidar as minister, Meretz’s Golan as deputy
Rebel lawmaker to become minister in PM’s office after threats to break with coalition; former general to become deputy minister of economic affairs; cabinet now numbers 29
By ToI Staff
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