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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich heads a Religious Zionist party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
February 24, 2026, 5:39 am
Knesset revokes Smotrich’s tax exemption for online purchases from abroad of up to $150
Tax-exempt cap lowered back to $75, reversing move that had been praised by consumers, decried by small businesses; finance minister lashes out at coalition colleagues who defied him, calls them leftists, vows to try again
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Police officers surround Likud MK Eli Dallal after he fell to the ground while walking through a crowd of anti-government protesters outside a Likud event in Kfar Saba, central Israel, on September 20, 2025. (Screenshot, X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 21, 2025, 2:42 am
PM assails anti-government demonstrators after Likud MK falls in crowd of protesters
MK Eli Dallal says experience was like ‘being lynched,’ even as he acknowledges that he fell when he bumped into protester, and wasn’t pushed by anyone
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)
October 16, 2024, 6:30 pm
‘It is doable’: 10 Likud MKs to attend conference calling for ‘resettling Gaza’
Almost a third of lawmakers in Netanyahu’s party to participate in event organized by Nachala Settlement Movement, after a similar confab months ago drew widespread backlash
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 3:21 pm
Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role
By Sam Sokol
Composite photo, left to right: MK Eli Dellal at the Knesset in April2023; MK Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset in July 2023; MK David Bitan at the Knesset in July 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 28, 2023, 7:40 pm
Several Likud MKs indicate they may not back more overhaul laws without consensus
Eli Dellal say he won’t support further overhaul legislation without broad public backing; Yuli Edelstein says cases of hardline lawmakers vetoing compromises are ‘over’
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
July 27, 2023, 4:20 pm
Likud MK says he will withdraw controversial bill to split attorney general position
Eli Dallal says he’s pulling the legislation ‘out of sincere desire for compromise with opposition,’ though all 10 cosponsors would have to retract their names too
By Jeremy Sharon
Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is driven out of a Tisha B'Av event by anti-government protesters in Jerusalem on July 26, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 27, 2023, 4:29 am
Anti-judicial overhaul protesters drive diaspora minister out of Tisha B’Av event
Jerusalem activists shout down Chikli with chants of ‘shame’ at event marking day of mourning; elsewhere, Likud MK Dallal joins protest group for reading of fast day scripture
By ToI Staff
Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after he fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2023. (AP/Oren Ziv)
March 27, 2023, 12:52 am
US ‘deeply concerned’ after PM fires Gallant, urges compromise on judicial revamp
White House highlights recent call with PM where Biden raised concern over legislative efforts, stresses importance for checks and balances as bilateral ties deteriorate further
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Knesset, on March 22, 2023, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits soldiers hurt in a shooting attack, at Belinson Hospital, on March 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel; Avshalom Sasson/Flash90)
March 26, 2023, 9:36 pm
Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Gallant for calling to pause judicial overhaul
Huge crowds take to streets in protest; ‘Israel’s security remains my life’s mission,’ ousted minister says; Dichter said in line for post as gov’t barrels on with legal shakeup
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair MK Avi Dichter, left, at an FADC meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
March 26, 2023, 4:14 pm
Dichter, possibly in line for defense chief seat, says he will back overhaul
Declaration of ex-Shin Bet chief’s full support for court-curbing legislation follows reports that he’d joined calls for talks; Likud MK Dallal also won’t break with party
By ToI Staff
'Without democracy, there is no high tech,' 'Even without ChatGPT, we know that you are wrong' and 'No freedom, no high-tech' -- tech workers protest judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 19, 2023, 3:34 pm
Business leaders warn Likud MKs: Judicial overhaul already harming economy
Industry heads meet with members of Netanyahu’s party, urge halt to legislation until compromise reached; Bitan: Overhaul must stop for talks within party
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 15, 2023, 5:21 pm
Likud MKs are afraid of social division, but not enough to take a stand on overhaul
With the coalition advancing its radical overhaul without pause for dialogue, it remains to be seen if increasingly troubled lawmakers in Netanyahu’s party will vote against it
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
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