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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Hanoch Milwidsky

Lawmakers in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee debate a bill to prevent the prosecution of soldiers who give classified intelligence to the prime minister without authorization, December 17, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
December 17, 2024, 6:20 pm
Edelstein questions need for coalition bill letting soldiers leak secret info to PM
‘Transferring classified information in a disorderly manner may result in the disclosure of sources,’ former chief of the IDF Intelligence Corps Moshe Schneid warns lawmakers
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
December 4, 2024, 8:22 pm
Bill to prevent prosecution of soldiers who send intel to PM passes preliminary reading
A separate bill to prohibit opening investigations into MKs without the Knesset’s approval also advances past the preliminary stage
By Sam Sokol
A woman votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 27, 2024, 9:28 pm
Lawmakers advance bills to block ‘terror supporters’ from holding local office
Legislation would ban candidates who support armed struggle against Israel from running in municipal elections — and would allow their removal, once elected, by Interior Ministry
By Sam Sokol
Israel Bar Association leader Amit Becher during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, November 25, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
November 25, 2024, 5:47 pm
Bar Association head, MKs ousted from stormy hearing on bill linked to judiciary fight
Amit Becher removed from 2nd Knesset meet in days after calling Likud MK a ‘populist’; panel advances bill on reforming IBA seen as part of struggle over future Supreme Court picks
By Sam Sokol
MK Almog Cohen argues with MK Ofer Cassif during a Knesset House Committee meeting, October 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 29, 2024, 9:19 pm
Following stormy debate, lawmakers advance measure to deport terrorists’ relatives
Bill allowing interior minister to expel, without trial, citizens who encourage family members to commit attacks ‘not constitutional,’ says rights organization ACRI
By Sam Sokol
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
Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem on September 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 12, 2024, 6:29 pm
Compromising images of Likud lawmaker sent to Knesset offices by anonymous email
Report says photos deleted from Knesset system after a recipient alerted IT department; MK Milwidsky says ‘fabricated’ pictures circulated to tarnish his reputation
By Sam Sokol
MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a committee hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 2:48 pm
Likud MK urges public to avoid courts in same way they avoid rocket-battered north
Hanoch Milwidsky skeptical time is ripe for renewed judicial overhaul push, but thinks people who are ‘not progressive’ should dump courts for arbitration or rabbinic tribunals
By ToI Staff
People in Tel Aviv walk by photographs of hostages held in Gaza, on May 28, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 31, 2024, 3:16 pm
Government sacrificing hostages, families say, following fraught Hanegbi meet
Top Netanyahu aide reportedly told families moves being driven by polling; Likud MK apologizes after accusing hostage’s brother of using situation to promote political agenda
By ToI Staff
Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
Hardline MKs demand review of alleged IDF report on settler violence
Right-wing members of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee rail against ‘comprehensive and false’ campaign against settlers, say it causes ‘enormous political damage’
By Sam Sokol
Newly elected head of the Israel Bar Association Amit Becher, center, with members of the IBA's election committee during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 5, 2023, 4:19 pm
Knesset passes preliminary reading of bill to sap Bar Association of key powers
Weeks after government opponent elected as IBA head, legislation would hand its seats on politically fraught judge-selecting panel to a new body controlled by the government
By Michael Bachner
Newly elected head of the Israeli Bar Association Amit Becher at a press conference for the announcement of the election results for the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 1, 2023, 10:32 pm
Bar Association chief: Lawyers could shut down courts if his organization is neutered
Amit Becher denounces proposal to strip legal group of its powers in favor of body that would be appointed by government as ‘thuggish, anti-democratic and absurd’
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky speaks during a Knesset Finance Committee hearing, February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2023, 7:34 pm
Government backs bill to siphon off most of Israel Bar Association’s powers
Licensing, bar exams and sanctioning lawyers are among powers to be transferred to a new Lawyers Council; current text would also strip IBA of seats on judge-selecting panel
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Lawyers vote in the Israel Bar Association election at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2023, 8:38 pm
Hours after losing battle for Bar Association, Likud moves to void its power
Ministerial committee to discuss legislation to strip group of licensing power, and possibly to end its participation in key Judicial Selection Committee
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Hadash-Ta'al MK Ofer Cassif, left, argues with Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky, right, at a Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 19, 2023, 3:07 pm
‘Go rape another one,’ ‘worthless terror supporter’: MKs trade barbs at Knesset
Coalition lawmakers threaten to act against youth village for hosting Israeli-Palestinian group’s summer camp, with one of them verbally clashing with Hadash-Ta’al MK
By ToI Staff
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