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Itzik Shmuli
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March 30, 2021, 12:43 pm
Renegades, rabble-rousers, TV anchors, army chiefs: The MKs who won’t be back
Dozens depart in latest election’s political culling — from longest-serving lawmaker to some of the briefest, as well as 3 women of 3 faiths who each made history in their own way
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ToI Staff
February 3, 2021, 11:04 am
Welfare minister Shmuli resigns, citing ‘mistake’ of joining Netanyahu coalition
Labor lawmaker admits to having a ‘substantive’ difference of opinion with his party’s policies, says he is taking a break from political life
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Stuart Winer
January 26, 2021, 10:32 pm
Former Labor leader Amir Peretz quits party to remain minister
Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli expected to follow; new party leader Merav Michaeli pulls faction from coalition, forcing choice between cabinet posts and party membership
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ToI Staff
January 25, 2021, 8:50 pm
Labor’s new leader says her party is exiting coalition, orders ministers to quit
Merav Michaeli, who opposed entry into Netanyahu-led government, says center-left faction starting new chapter ahead of March elections
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ToI Staff
January 24, 2021, 9:25 am
Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party
37,104 party members will choose between 7 candidates seeking leadership of the once-venerable political force that faces oblivion in March election
By
Raoul Wootliff
January 19, 2021, 11:07 pm
In boost for Bennett, small business owners’ protest leader joins Yamina
Abir Kara of the ‘I am Shulman’ group says his ‘entire movement’ will back the right-wing party in March election; Itzik Shmuli rules out bid for Labor leadership
By
Raoul Wootliff
January 18, 2021, 11:28 pm
Barak says he will not return to Labor, citing fractured left-wing field
Former PM rejects calls to rejoin his old party, says the political mergers that are a ‘necessary condition’ for a change in government unlikely to happen
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ToI Staff
January 3, 2021, 5:34 pm
In win for rebel MK Michaeli, court forces Labor to hold primaries
Left-wing lawmaker announces bid for leadership of embattled party after overturning leader Peretz’s decision to cancel internal vote
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Raoul Wootliff
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ToI Staff
December 15, 2020, 5:15 pm
COVID-19 crisis plunges 50,000 Israeli households below poverty line – minister
Conference attendees hear of ‘meteoric’ jump in requests for food assistance, and unemployment that will stay high with just one opening for every 16 jobless people
By
Shoshanna Solomon
December 9, 2020, 9:02 pm
Ministers approve draft of bill to enable adoption by same sex couples
Legislation will remove 1960 stipulation that prospective parents be ‘a man and a woman;’ Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli lauds ‘historic correction’ of discrimination
By
Stuart Winer
December 1, 2020, 8:18 am
Labor party will back vote for new elections, ending government ‘paralysis’
Economy Minister Peretz says state budget has been taken ‘hostage’ by Netanyahu, Welfare Minister Shmuli declares ‘no point in continuing’ unity coalition
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ToI Staff
November 28, 2020, 12:32 pm
Coronavirus is driving thousands of people into hunger. Where is the state?
Charities shoulder most of the burden for food insecurity as a lack of government funding, and perhaps of will, leaves no guiding hand for largely helpless social welfare agencies
By
Sue Surkes
November 2, 2020, 4:14 pm
Renegade Labor member skips party’s Rabin memorial
Party no. 3 Merav Michaeli, who has refused to join the government under Netanyahu, will hold her own memorial event Wednesday
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ToI Staff
July 22, 2020, 12:40 pm
Government said mulling lowering minimum wage to boost employment
Proposal draws immediate rebuke from left-wing ministers and MKs; one denounces ‘fundamentalist capitalist ideas’ that ‘erode workers’ rights during an unprecedented social crisis’
By
ToI Staff
July 21, 2020, 5:15 pm
Histadrut chief threatens further strikes if no deal reached with social workers
Social workers’ union rejects ‘meager’ raise offered by Finance Ministry as strike enters 16th day; welfare minister: Situation must be resolved before ‘disaster hits’
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