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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Hilik Bar

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
January 16, 2019, 9:00 pm
Three Labor MKs jump ship amid growing anger at Gabbay
As embattled party leader seeks to shore up support ahead of elections, Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Hilik Bar and Eitan Broshi announce they won’t seek Knesset reelection on Labor list
By ToI Staff
Illustrative picture of a #MeToo supporter of the online campaign against sexual abuse and harassment (nito100/Getty Images/iStock)
December 11, 2018, 11:57 am
New law allows sex abuse victims to speak out, give interviews
‘Those who need to hide are the criminals, not the victims,’ says justice minister, after cross-party support ends prohibition on publicity
By ToI Staff
Zionist Union MK Robert Tiviaev speaks in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 29, 2018, 12:29 am
Zionist Union punishes absent MK after pensioner pay bill fails by single vote
MK Robert Tiviaev suspended from parliamentary duties for one month after skipping vote that ended up 57-56; MK Hilik Bar, in China, may also face discipline
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Likud MK Oren Hazan speaking during a Knesset plenary session, November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 21, 2018, 2:11 pm
MK files complaint against colleague for inciting violence against activist
Zionist Union lawmaker Hilik Bar turns to police after Likud’s Oren Hazan posts ‘Wanted dead or alive’ poster of B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad in wake of his UN speech
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Oren Hazan, center, in Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 31, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 11:48 pm
Banned for insulting his peers, Likud MK calls Knesset speaker ‘Stalin’
Oren Hazan uses his last address to plenum before 6-month expulsion to attack Yuli Edelstein, a former prisoner of Zion
By Stuart Winer
President Reuven Rivlin attends the state ceremony marking 44 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 1, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
October 1, 2017, 7:50 pm
Government fails to send a single minister to Yom Kippur War memorial
Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay slams ’embarrassing’ leadership; Netanyahu apologizes for ‘unfortunate mistake,’ vows it won’t happen again
By ToI Staff
Deputy Minister of Regional Affairs Ayoub Kara arrives to the weekly government conference at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on October 30, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL )
November 9, 2016, 5:32 pm
In Knesset, guise of neutrality on election remains (mostly) intact
Morning after Trump’s shock win, Israeli lawmakers largely shy away from criticism or cheering; are split on whether it spells end of 2-state solution
By Marissa Newman
Illustration. New immigrants arrive to Ben Gurion airport in Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)
November 7, 2016, 6:35 pm
Celebrating aliyah, PM hails ‘tremendous’ contribution of Israel’s immigrants
On eve of first national holiday for migrants, Netanyahu says influx of Jews is ‘fulfillment of biblical prophecy’
By Raoul Wootliff
Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)
November 5, 2016, 8:22 pm
Fury on left as coalition chair says Rabin murder ‘not political’
‘This was politically motivated assassination in every way,’ retorts Labor’s Hilik Bar after Bitan’s comments hours before Tel Aviv memorial to slain PM
By ToI Staff
Joint (Arab) List MK Jamal Zahalka speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 22, 2016, 10:57 pm
Opposition MKs slam Netanyahu’s ‘hypocritical’ UNGA speech
Arab lawmakers call PM’s address ‘a new low’ and political theater; Meretz head dismisses invite of Abbas to Knesset as ‘lip service’
By ToI Staff
Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi, center, confronted by fellow lawmakers in the Knesset plenum over her comments on the Israel-Turkey reconciliation agreement on June 29, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
August 1, 2016, 6:44 pm
Knesset reprimands Zoabi, Hazan for plenum brouhaha
Joint List lawmaker censured for calling IDF soldiers ‘murderers,’ Likud MK for stoking flames of uproar in response
By ToI Staff
Labor party leader MK Isaac Herzog speaks to the party's central committee conference in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 31, 2016, 8:44 pm
Amid boos and infighting, Labor pushes off primary
Opposition party’s central committee votes with embattled leader Isaac Herzog to delay leadership race till July 2017
By ToI Staff
A conference on the Yemenite Children Affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 21, 2016, 7:22 pm
Wounds over missing Yemenite children open, MKs renew push for truth
Families demand government declassify documents sealed until 2071 on dark affair involving alleged kidnappings; Netanyahu baffled on why they were sealed in first place
By Marissa Newman
Leader of the opposition MK Isaac Herzog seen with MK Tzipi Livni at a Zionist Union faction meeting in the Knesset, February 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 22, 2016, 6:37 pm
6 Zionist Union MKs skip first faction meeting since coalition talks
Micky Rosenthal says he’s ‘lost faith’ in Herzog; Yachimovich slams leader who continues to ‘incite’ against his colleagues
By Marissa Newman
Labor's Hilik Bar addresses the Knesset (Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 9:38 am
Polish town names square after Knesset deputy speaker’s family
Skulsk calls plaza after Hilik Bar’s great-grandfather Yitzhak Kotowski, who perished in Majdanek concentration camp
By JTA
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