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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Gilad Kariv

Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Christians gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for a mass honoring Pope Francis on April 23, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
April 23, 2025, 8:45 pm
At Jerusalem’s holiest church, Catholics mourn Pope Francis with solemn mass
Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, seen as a possible successor
By Rossella Tercatin and Reuters
Labor MK Gilad Kariv leads an Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 4, 2025, 12:35 pm
Labor MK to be questioned on suspicion of leaking classified info from Knesset panel
Gilad Kariv says that unlike coalition lawmakers, he plans on cooperating with investigation into protocols leaked from Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in 2023
By ToI Staff
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 26, 2025. Poster reads 'Checks and balances.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 1:29 am
Thousands protest outside Knesset ahead of final votes on controversial judicial bill
Some opposition MKs join anti-overhaul protesters; rally organizers accuse government of ‘declaring war on the people’; bar association chief: ‘They won’t break democracy’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 5:18 pm
‘Democracy isn’t in danger,’ Netanyahu tells Knesset in tirade against ‘deep state’
‘The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the more powerful the pressure we will exert,’ says PM, threatening to seize territory in Gaza
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with coalition lawmakers as the 2025 state budget law is passed by the Knesset, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2025, 5:26 pm
In major success for government, Knesset approves 2025 budget, staving off elections
Coalition lawmakers escorted into Knesset under guard as anti-government protesters block entrance. Opposition MKs chant ‘shame’, families of hostages protest from gallery, as law passes final reading
By Sam Sokol
Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2025, 11:28 am
MK Kariv: Overhaul bill will leave judges ‘eternally fearful’ of their political bosses
Democrats’ Gilad Kariv warns legislation changing the judicial appointments process, which the coalition aims to quickly push through, will ‘totally politicize the justice system’
By Jeremy Sharon
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2025, 10:15 am
Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem
‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding
By ToI Staff
Amit Becher, the head of the Israel Bar Association, attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
January 23, 2025, 2:56 pm
Coalition passes law limiting bar association’s control of its finances
Organization’s chief, opposition lawmakers denounce legislation as justice minister’s revenge for refusal to back his picks for Supreme Court, amid judicial overhaul fight
By ToI Staff
Thousands of anti-government protesters rally at the junnction of Kaplan and Begin Streets in Tel Aviv, April 20, 2024. (Aviv Atlas / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
December 5, 2024, 9:08 pm
Police bar weekly Tel Aviv protest from Kaplan-Begin junction, citing recent low turnout
Organizers of anti-government rally vow to fight move, say numbers were down due to Home Front Command rules, with Saturday set to host first major demos since limitations lifted
By ToI Staff
Eyal Naveh,, one of the leaders of Brothers in Arms, attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on April 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 2, 2024, 10:04 am
Katz nixes reserve duty of protest leader who urged refusal to serve over judicial overhaul
Defense minister says Eyal Naveh, a leader of Brothers in Arms and reservist commander in elite unit, is not fit to train soldiers; opposition MKs pan move as politicization of IDF
By Stuart Winer
Incoming Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, shakes hand with his predecessor, Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2024, 11:48 am
Knesset approves Katz as defense minister, Sa’ar as FM after Gallant’s firing
Opposition leader Lapid calls on Katz to show ‘backbone’ and oppose Haredi draft exemptions
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israelis block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv as they protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, November 5, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
November 6, 2024, 4:39 am
Protesters take to streets after Gallant fired; crowds much smaller than previous time
Angry demonstrations erupt in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere; while attendance down, turnout exceeds limit on crowd sizes permitted by IDF guidelines amid risk of rocket attacks
By Noam Lehmann and Iddo Schejter
Police remove a young fan, wearing a T-shirt with a slogan against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, from a basketball game in Jerusalem, October 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 10:42 am
Police briefly detain teen wearing anti-Ben Gvir T-shirt at Jerusalem basketball game
Fans claim officers searched for 17-year-old because of his ‘FCK BNGVR’ T-shirt, though police quoted as saying he was removed from stadium for ‘provocative’ chants
By ToI Staff
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee hearing, September 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 17, 2024, 2:20 am
Bill would let police probe suspected incitement to terrorism without State Attorney’s okay
Critics of proposed legislation fear freedom of speech may be constricted, express concern over ‘politicized’ police investigations
By Jeremy Sharon
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