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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Knesset members

Former Yamina MK Abir Kara at the launch of his new Economic Freedom party in Jerusalem, September 4, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 12, 2024, 4:25 pm
Former MK claims he was wrongfully questioned amid fight against ‘cartel’ of lawyers
Police reject Abir Kara’s claim he was denied attorney, say he was probed on suspicion of breaching restraining order
By ToI Staff
Israelis being kidnapped and taken into Gaza by Hamas terrorists, October 7, 2023, as seen in pixelated videos from social media screened on Israeli television. (Channel 12 screenshot)
November 1, 2023, 6:08 pm
MKs are shown raw videos of Hamas atrocities; some leave in tears
Compilation previously shown in closed-door screenings to foreign press, ambassadors to Israel; ‘Don’t hate each other, hate the enemy, hate the monsters,’ one lawmaker says
By ToI Staff
Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2022, 1:48 pm
Only 9 women in coalition, fewest Arabs in 2 decades: A preview of the 25th Knesset
The parliament to be sworn in on Tuesday includes 23 first-time MKs, 3 who returned after a break, 10 Arabs, and twice as many women in the opposition than in the coalition
By Ofer Kenig
Illustrative: An Israeli police officer stands guard as a religious Jew in army uniform visits the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
March 15, 2022, 11:54 pm
Minister’s bid to limit MKs visiting Temple Mount shot down by attorney general
Omer Barlev defends proposal as intended to protect lawmakers, as officials warn of potential for violence ahead of Ramadan, Passover holidays
By ToI Staff
Disgraced former finance minister Abraham Hirschson (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
March 7, 2022, 4:20 pm
Former finance minister Avraham Hirschson dies at 81
Longtime MK, a member of the Likud and Kadima parties, resigned as treasury chief in 2007 before serving 3.5 years in prison for embezzling millions from labor union
By ToI Staff
Former MK Stav Shaffir on 'The Masked Singer' (Courtesy The Masked Singer Facebook page)
December 23, 2021, 2:22 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 23 – Why are MKs and newsmakers on reality TV?
Reporter Amy Spiro and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discuss the cult of Israeli celebrities on local reality shows, where newsmakers compete for votes onscreen
By ToI Staff
Marcia Freedman in 2013. (Screenshot/YouTube)
September 23, 2021, 10:02 am
US-born ex-MK Marcia Freedman, a pioneer of Israeli women’s rights, dies at 83
The only openly lesbian lawmaker in Israeli history, activist helped found Israeli feminist movement, discussed domestic violence in 1970s to male colleagues’ ridicule
By Michael Bachner
Aharon Abuhatzira (courtesy)
September 22, 2021, 6:16 pm
Former minister and MK Aharon Abuhatzira dies at 82
Morocco-born politician is buried in Ramle, where he served as mayor in the 1970s; PM hails his support for disenfranchised
By ToI Staff
Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks to Channel 13 news from his hospital bed in the coronavirus ward of Sheba Medical Center, on August 18, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 13)
August 19, 2021, 1:31 pm
Labor’s Kariv released from hospital after serious COVID illness
Fully vaccinated MK and Reform rabbi thanks well-wishers; he says it’s ‘hard to breathe without oxygen. Everyone who dismisses this disease doesn’t know what they’re talking about’
By ToI Staff
Shirley Pinto, the first deaf Knesset member, speaks during a plenum session on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 12, 2021, 11:04 pm
First deaf Knesset member gives maiden speech in sign language
‘Alongside me stand 1.8 million men, women, and children with physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual disabilities,’ says Yamina MK Shirly Pinto
By Amy Spiro
Then-MK Dov Lipman during a Yesh Atid party meeting in the Knesset, January 6, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 14, 2021, 11:57 pm
Ex-MK Dov Lipman ousted by Zionist umbrella group over sexual harassments claims
World Confederation of United Zionists lets go of American-born rabbi who served as secretary-general, citing ‘grave allegations’ by two women who say he harassed them
By Ron Kampeas
Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, and Yash Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset during the presidential election, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 12, 2021, 3:09 pm
Why the champions of change are forming one of Israel’s most bloated governments
Lapid railed at the dysfunction of the Netanyahu-Gantz government. Yet he and Bennett have set up one just as big and wasteful. What’s needed, paradoxically, is a bigger Knesset
By Haviv Rettig Gur
(New faces in the 24th Knesset, from top left) Religious Zionism's Itamar Ben Gvir, Avi Maoz, Simcha Rothman and Michal Woldiger; Yamina's Amichai Chikli, Alon Davidi, Nir Orbach and Abir Kara; Likud's Galit Distal; Yesh Atid's Ron Katz and Nira Shafek; Labor's Efrat Raitman, Gilad Kariv, Emilie Moatti and Ibtisam Mara’ana; and Meretz's Renawi Zoabi (Photo credits: Flash90 / Courtesy)
March 26, 2021, 1:29 pm
Reform rabbi, Kahanist agitator, firebrand writer: The new Knesset’s 16 rookies
Lawmakers from no fewer than 13 different parties have made it into the 24th parliament. This is who the 120 are, with a focus on the fresh faces
By Raoul Wootliff and Jacob Magid
View of the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
November 24, 2020, 3:44 am
Amid virus crisis, Knesset unanimously votes to freeze pay raises for lawmakers
Opposition leader Lapid calls automatic annual salary increase for Knesset members ‘scandalous,’ urges MKs to ‘strengthen public trust in the Knesset’
By ToI Staff
Likud party MK Yehudah Glick in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)
September 27, 2020, 11:49 am
Former MK and Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick plans to run for president
Controversial US-born figure, who broke with some of Likud party’s traditional stances, says he’s most fit to heal nation’s rifts
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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