Isaac Herzog

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman gives a statement to the media during his visit in Katzrin, May 11, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

May 21, 2018, 5:23 pm

Defense minister: Top Arab MK, colleagues a ‘fifth column,’ should be ‘outlawed’

Avigdor Liberman steps up attack against Joint List chair Ayman Odeh after Haifa protests against IDF action at Gaza border spur allegations of police brutality

By TOI staff and Stuart Winer

Zionist Union faction head Avi Gabbay speaks at the Israeli Social Conference 2018 in Tel Aviv on May 1, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

May 6, 2018, 6:40 am

Netanyahu is turning Israel into Turkey, opposition chief charges

Zionist Union leaders warn of threat to democracy posed by law allowing PM to declare war without consulting cabinet, bid to hobble Supreme Court

By TOI staff

A military helicopter searches for missing hikers near the Dead Sea, southern Israel, April 26, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

April 26, 2018, 10:55 pm

Israeli leaders mourn ‘terrible tragedy’ of 10 youths killed in flash flood

Country 'grieves for lives cut short,' says Netanyahu; students were taken 'at the height of their flowering,' opposition leader says

By Stuart Winer

In question over who wrote the 'Prayer for peace in Israel,' Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Herzog is discovered as the true author after decades-long dispute. (National Library of Israel)

April 18, 2018, 5:41 pm

Mystery of who wrote the ‘Prayer for the State of Israel’ is finally solved

New research deciphers historical whodunnit over who penned one of the country's most important founding texts in 1948

By Tracy Frydberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office, March 5, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

April 13, 2018, 2:56 am

US told Israel to resolve row with Poland — report

Trump administration officials said to have asked both government and opposition to tamp down criticism of Holocaust legislation

By TOI staff and JTA

African asylum seekers and Israeli activists protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, against their deportation, on April 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

April 3, 2018, 10:33 pm

South TA activists who oppose deportations rail against migrant deal flip-flop

Group of residents slam Netanyahu for shutting them out of meeting he held with locals who support expulsion, say government using residents to justify deportations

By TOI staff

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay speaks at a press conference with former senior security officials in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

April 3, 2018, 4:19 pm

Opposition leaders blast ‘spineless’ PM after he cancels his own migrant deal

MKs accuse Netanyahu of putting politics ahead of policy as he nixes plan to resettle 16,250 African asylum seekers in Western countries and give similar number temporary residency

By TOI staff

Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

April 2, 2018, 2:23 pm

Opposition leader: ‘If PM speaks at Independence Day event, I must too’

Isaac Herzog slams culture minister for seeking to break tradition by having Netanyahu address Israelis at ceremony

By TOI staff

Israel's Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 15, 2018, 10:24 am

Netanyahu jettisoned snap vote bid after Labor withdrew its support – report

Avi Gabbay reportedly told coalition members that his opposition party would not support early elections after senior party figures pressured him to change tack

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

March 12, 2018, 7:49 pm

Netanyahu vows he’ll win early elections, but insists ‘we’re not there yet’

At Knesset, PM calls on partners to make 'supreme effort' to save government, clashes with opposition over corruption charges

By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff

Natan Sharansky, left, head of the Jewish Agency, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the latter's Jerusalem office, June 18, 2013. (Kofi Gideon/Flash90/via JTA)

March 6, 2018, 12:15 pm

Netanyahu said to seek extension in hunt for new Jewish Agency head

PM's preferred candidate reportedly turns down offer; Natan Sharansky to step down from position in three months

By TOI staff

Nir Hefetz arrives for extension of his remand in case 4000 at the District Court in Tel Aviv, February 22, 2018. (Flash90)

February 23, 2018, 9:18 am

Itsy scoops, big sobs and huge support

Papers don't break much new ground in their reporting on the latest in Netanyahu's scandals, but they do try to figure out why the premier's boosters back him over the police

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

February 12, 2018, 11:06 pm

Opposition MKs slam Netanyahu for ‘lying’ about annexation talks with the US

'An evening in which the White House says, in an official announcement, that our prime minister does not tell the truth is a sad evening,' says Labor leader Gabbay

By Jacob Magid

Opposition chairman Isaac Herzog speaks on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 25, 2018. (Courtesy)

January 28, 2018, 6:34 am

Coax Abbas back to table with carrots, not sticks, opposition head urges

Isaac Herzog thinks pushing the Palestinians into a corner by threatening and punishing them will only do harm; says Sunni states ready to upgrade ties

By Jacob Magid

Rabbi Raziel Shevach (c) with his family, in an undated photo (Courtesy of the family)

January 16, 2018, 3:00 pm

Court gags new developments in probe of deadly West Bank shooting

Media barred from reporting on identity of suspects; in response to president's request, opposition chief visits Raziel Shevach's mourning family at illegal outpost

By Jacob Magid