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An Israeli Arab casts his vote in the Knesset elections in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, February 10, 2009. (Photo credit: Herzl Shapira / FLASH90)
October 12, 2014, 2:22 pm
Facing extinction, Israel’s Arab parties move toward unity… and growth
A raised Knesset ‘threshold’ means all three Arab parties could disappear in the next elections. But running together, they could win unprecedented support. Their leaders are doing the math
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Hadash MKs during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, November 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
March 10, 2014, 9:26 pm
For sole Jewish-Arab party, new law may be a death blow
But some Arab MKs view Governance Bill, raising electoral threshold to 3.25 percent, as a possible blessing in disguise
By Elhanan Miller
The Knesset, Jerusalem (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
March 7, 2014, 12:42 pm
What the latest MKs’ expenses report tells us about our lawmakers
Why do Haredi MKs pay for a beeper service, and how do you spend nearly 12,000 shekels on newspaper subscriptions?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The Western Galilee (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
February 4, 2014, 9:39 am
Government denies plans to ‘Judaize’ the Galilee
Knesset panel told of work in progress for a new Druse village and Arab town
By TOI staff
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset, Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)
January 20, 2014, 7:20 pm
Harper: Support for Israel is morally and strategically right
In Knesset speech of emphatic solidarity, Canada’s PM slams ‘disgraceful’ hatred of Israel, urges Palestinians to seek peace, says his sanctions on Iran will remain
By Lazar Berman
Yuli Edelstein speaking to the Knesset in November 2011
December 26, 2013, 12:20 pm
Knesset speaker: Christmas trees bring back bad memories
Yuli Edelstein tries to explain why he denied a request from a Christian Arab MK to install a festive pine in the parliament building
By Stuart Winer and Haviv Rettig Gur
President Shimon Peres, center, with Christian schoolchildren in Ramle, on December 22, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)
December 24, 2013, 9:12 pm
Christian Arabs top country’s matriculation charts
Students from the religious minority, which makes up only 2% of Israel’s population, most likely to graduate high school
By Adiv Sterman
Mahmoud Abbas at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2010. (photo credit: Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)
December 23, 2013, 7:07 pm
Israel to Abbas: No, Jesus was not a Palestinian
Foreign Ministry pans PA president’s ‘outrageous rewriting of Christian history,’ says he needs a hug from Santa
By Raphael Ahren
The Knesset on December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
December 22, 2013, 2:18 pm
Knesset speaker nixes on-site Christmas tree
‘You’re welcome to place one in your office,’ Edelstein tells Christian Arab lawmaker Hanna Swaid, who calls the decision ‘crazy’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The Knesset, blanketed in snow, Thursday, December 12, 2013 (photo credit: Knesset spokesperson)
December 19, 2013, 7:20 pm
Christian MK calls for Knesset Christmas tree
Israeli parliament considering request from lawmaker Hanna Swaid, who also wants House closed for Christian holidays
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Former Shas MK Haim Amsalem in the Knesset in 2010. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 22, 2013, 10:21 am
Vote for us: The profiles
In the final weeks of the campaign, The Times of Israel’s Matti Friedman interviewed and profiled six very different Knesset candidates. As voters choose their parties, here’s his reminder of some of the more compelling prospective MKs
Avigdor Liberman at the Foreign Ministry (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 6, 2013, 9:36 pm
Ethics Committee docks Liberman four days’ pay for playing hooky, again
Former foreign minister and Yisrael Beytenu chief missed 22 Knesset meetings during the summer session
By Ilan Ben Zion
Former MK Mohammad Barakeh (right) and lawmaker Masoud Ganaim, pictured in April, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 10, 2012, 9:41 pm
Hadash party reelects Barakeh as chairman
Non-Zionist Arab-Jewish socialist party’s leader to step down in two years to make room for those lower down
By Ilan Ben Zion
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