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Knesset Law Committee

A monkey, likely trafficked into Israel, after being rescued by police in the Negev, southern Israel, on April 10, 2025. (Israel Police)
June 2, 2026, 12:46 pm
Knesset committee extends money laundering law to wildlife trafficking
Move allows authorities to follow money trail, track down criminals involved in what is regarded as fourth-largest category of illegal global trade
By Sue Surkes
MK Simcha Rothman leads a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 12, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 19, 2026, 8:36 am
New bill aims to make it harder to indict senior officials, including PM, ministers
Clause requiring permission from judge and special committee to investigate top figures added to MK Rothman’s draft on splitting AG’s role, further limiting checks on power
By Jeremy Sharon and Ariela Karmel
MK Simcha Rothman (L) argues with legal adviser to the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Gur Bligh at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 24, 2025. (Noam Moshkovitz/Knesset spokesperson office)
November 24, 2025, 3:12 pm
Knesset legal adviser accuses Rothman of threatening him during debate on AG powers
Video shows Knesset Law Committee chairman whispering to legal adviser Gur Bligh, who then snaps back, telling him: ‘You will not threaten me!’
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Damage caused to an apartment building following heavy rainfall in Ness Ziona, central Israel, November 21, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 4, 2024, 3:07 pm
Knesset panel paves way for controversial climate bill to go to final Knesset votes
Bill, which passed first reading in April, has no budget, allows government to change emission cut targets and delay climate action for up to three years without Knesset okay
By Sue Surkes
A photographic illustration shows a mobile phone near the NSO Group company logo in the Israeli city of Netanya on February 9, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
April 23, 2023, 5:55 pm
Israel Police use of NSO spyware set to be probed by Knesset subcommittee
Panel will discuss findings and recommendations of dossier produced last year by Deputy Attorney General Amit Merari
By Ash Obel
Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset on September 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2021, 2:55 pm
Trust or bust: New honor system coalition learns from Netanyahu’s fall
Lapid gave up a key measure this week that would have helped protect him from a potential betrayal by Bennett when the time comes to rotate premiership. Was it naivete?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Electricity-generating solar panels. (Danny Shechtman)
December 22, 2020, 9:13 pm
Lawmakers fast-track environmental initiatives as Knesset set to dissolve
Knesset committees reach 11th hour deals to ease installation of solar panels, while Energy Ministry launches program to make local authorities more energy efficient
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: People wear face masks at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 30, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 1, 2020, 4:17 pm
Public pressure, misplaced trust led to virus rebound — deputy health minister
Yoav Kisch tells lawmakers every attempt at targeted closures failed because industries, communities and individuals rejected them as unfair and broke the rules
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
May 10, 2018, 6:10 am
To ‘unchain’ Jewish women, rabbinate could extend reach across borders
Amid heavy criticism, Knesset debates bill to grant Israel’s rabbinical courts oversight of Jewish divorce cases, including for those wed in civil unions
By Marissa Newman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)
April 22, 2018, 2:01 pm
Jewish Home head calls vote on bid to hobble Supreme Court
Despite Netanyahu’s bid to delay, Bennett says ministers will next week debate a clause allowing Knesset to re-approve laws nixed by justices
By Sue Surkes
Three Arab Israelis named by the Shin Bet as responsible for shooting dead two Israeli police officers next to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 14, 2017: Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamad Abdel Latif Jabarin, 19 and Muhammad Ahmed Mafdal Jabarin, 19. (Channel 2 composite screenshot)
July 25, 2017, 2:03 pm
High Court orders Temple Mount shooters’ bodies be returned to families
Abbas: Security coordination with Israel to remain frozen; fifteen Israeli families squat at contested Hebron home; police deny rumors of planned X-ray cameras on Temple Mount
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2017, 9:58 pm
Police said set to close sexual harassment probe of senior MK
None of the women who accused Jewish Home’s Nissan Slomiansky of behaving inappropriately toward them was willing to testify
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 4, 2017, 11:33 pm
MK suspected of harassment to again helm Knesset committee
Decision by Nissan Slomiansky to again chair meetings said to come after ultimatum from parliamentary legal adviser
By ToI Staff
V15 activists convene at their campaign offices in Jerusalem on February 09, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
November 1, 2016, 8:54 pm
In shadow of ugly US election, Israel’s NGO finance bill to get makeover
Likud MK warns that without law to cap donations for political bodies, Israel’s next campaigns will resemble those of America
By Marissa Newman
Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked speaks in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 30, 2016, 10:02 pm
Justice Minister backs crackdown on private members’ bills
Shaked slams ‘competition’ between MKs, says Knesset law panel nixed over 1,000 legislative proposals since March 2015
By Sue Surkes
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