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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

Gonen Ben Yitzhak

Gonen Ben Yitzhak is taken by police during demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 23, 2025, 2:31 am
Netanyahu reportedly asked Ronen Bar to act against protest leader Gonen Ben Yitzhak
PM’s office calls report that the ‘Crime Minister’ activist was among those Netanyahu wanted Shin Bet to act against ‘another lie’; denies loyalty raised in interviews for Bar’s replacement
By Jeremy Sharon
An anti-government protester presses up against a policewoman during a demonstration in Jerusalem, March 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 28, 2025, 11:33 pm
Police detain man said to have pressed up against female cop from behind at protest
Anti-government activist of war veterans’ protest group denies wrongdoing, says video from Jerusalem demonstration ‘fabricated’
By ToI Staff
Newly appointed Tel Aviv police commander Peretz Amar at a handover ceremony in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 1, 2023, 3:30 pm
Amid concerns over police conduct, new Tel Aviv chief says protests must be calm
Peretz Amar apologizes for ‘inappropriate photos’ appearing to show police violence; 4 arrested at rally outside police station where two protesters were being questioned
By ToI Staff
Protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, near the his official residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2021, a few days befire the Israeli general elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/Flash90)
March 20, 2021, 8:32 pm
Highest turnout in months at final pre-election protest against Netanyahu
Organizers reflect on previous nine months of rallies: ‘We were able to make a huge protest [movement], but without any means of channeling it’
By Aaron Boxerman
Moshe Ya'alon and Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Efrat on December 19, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 10, 2021, 9:29 pm
Ya’alon kicks off Telem campaign: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu, your time is up’
After splitting up with Yesh Atid, former Likud defense minister teams up with recently resigned science minister, ex-virus adviser to government, and anti-PM activists
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Izhar Shay poses at the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
January 10, 2021, 2:08 pm
Ex-science minister, top government virus adviser join Ya’alon’s Telem party
Prominent anti-Netanyahu activist also joins ranks; doctors union chief Hagai Levine says he believes in former defense minister’s leadership
By Raoul Wootliff
Gonen Ben Yitzhak lies under a water cannon at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 24, 2020, 2:05 pm
Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators indicted for 1st time, including protest leader
Gonen Ben Yitzhak charged with blocking use of water cannon against protesters; 2nd demonstrator accused of using pepper spray on officer who tried to remove her from street
By ToI Staff
Topaz Luk, social media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives with the premier at the Knesset, September 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2020, 9:02 pm
Activist says Netanyahu’s social media adviser is inciting against him
Gonen Ben Yitzhak files police complaint, says posts on premier’s Facebook and Twitter pages tied his photo to threats against the PM he had nothing to do with
By ToI Staff
Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his residence in Jerusalem, early Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
July 25, 2020, 3:02 pm
Protest organizers say will go to High Court unless police stop water cannon use
With thousands expected at Saturday night rally against Netanyahu, activists say police must signal lack of intention to use high-powered water jets or matter will go before judges
By ToI Staff
The Salman Schocken house, a building adjacent to the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, that has become part of the compound in recent years, November 2019. (Tani Goldstein)
November 26, 2019, 2:20 am
Netanyahu’s official residence has taken over an adjacent historical compound
Schocken house in Jerusalem’s Smolenskin Street, formerly used by music academy, has become part of Prime Minister’s Residence without municipality approval
By ToI Staff
Activist Eldad Yaniv in Tel Aviv on February 8, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
December 30, 2018, 12:53 pm
Anti-corruption protest leader forms new party ahead of elections
Eldad Yaniv, an anti-Netanyahu campaigner and former Labor activist, calls for ‘new, honest people to lead the country’
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Nafatli Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right (HaYamin HeHadash) party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 29, 2018, 7:03 pm
Bennett, Shaked quit Jewish Home, announce formation of ‘The New Right’
Two ministers say they felt hobbled by their party’s acquiescence to PM’s edicts, seek to forge full, equal ‘partnership between secular and religious’ with new right-wing party
By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff
Mosab Hassan Yousef addresses an American Friends of Magen David Adom event in Florida, December 2018. (Courtesy)
December 17, 2018, 2:46 pm
‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’
A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom
By David Horovitz
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