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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Knesset opposition

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 28, 2024, 7:12 pm
Sa’ar willing to make ‘concessions’ to create right-wing bloc opposing Netanyahu
Representatives of Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beytenu and New Hope slated to meet Wednesday to discuss ‘the beginning of cooperation to overthrow the existing government’
By Sam Sokol
File: MK Karine Elharrar arrives for the opening session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 15, 2023, 1:52 pm
Daily Briefing Jun 15: And the winners are… MK Karine Elharrar – and PM Netanyahu?
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on the stormy vote for the Judicial Selection Committee, and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on a ‘mini-agreement’ with Iran
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 14, 2023, 1:16 pm
Daily Briefing June 14: Fateful voting day in Knesset for judicial picks
Knesset correspondent Tal Schneider discusses choosing MKs for Judicial Selection Committee; Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor looks at Lithuanian PM speech and Hong Kong eruv
By ToI Staff
A woman at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022, holds up a sign with the biblical phrase 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 1, 2023, 1:22 pm
Daily Briefing June 1: PM kicks coalition issues down the road; Gay Pride in capital
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon looks at PM’s move to shut down partners’ proposals and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses politics of negotiation at judicial overhaul talks
By ToI Staff
A discussion on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 21, 2023, 2:19 pm
Yesh Atid mulling plan for all opposition MKs to resign to protest judicial overhaul
MK Elazar Stern says not all parties agree to potential move, colleague Debbie Biton says it’s ‘definitely on the table’
By ToI Staff
Mickey Levy embraces Yariv Levin in the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
December 12, 2022, 5:06 pm
Key vote on Knesset speaker pushed to Tuesday after Lapid camp threatens filibuster
Installing Likud ally needed to pave way for new government’s formation with deadline nearing; outgoing PM wants to bar 4 lawmakers from voting on bill okaying Deri as minister
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
New Hope chairman Gideon Sa'ar (left) and Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin speak during a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 12, 2022, 10:27 am
Incoming opposition prepares to fight Likud’s legislative blitz ‘with every tool’
National Unity’s Elkin pans ‘unprecedented’ effort to pass far-reaching laws before government formed; ministers to hear expert opinions on bills in bid to embarrass new coalition
By ToI Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a discussion and a vote on The vote on the "Flag Bill" at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 1, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 6, 2022, 2:00 pm
Daily Briefing June 6: Debates continue in Knesset; Biden postpones trip to region
Political reporter Tal Schneider discusses Monday at the Knesset as US correspondent Jacob Magid looks at Biden’s postponed Mideast jaunt and US-Palestinian conversations
By ToI Staff
An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)
May 11, 2022, 8:13 pm
Opposition pushes through preliminary bill for probe into police spying
Proposal manages to pass first reading in Knesset with vote of 59-58 after coalition MK leaves plenum for interview
By ToI Staff
Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 6, 2022, 8:54 pm
Bennett tells Yamina members Silman ‘broke’ under pressure, Israel needs stability
Attempting to rally his crumbling party at emergency meeting, PM says only alternative to current government is more elections; he reportedly comes under fire from faction members
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 23, 2022, 4:18 pm
Opposition bills advance, as Gantz boycotts plenum over stalled IDF pension law
Coalition pulls its legislation amid efforts to reach compromise with Blue and White; opposition pulls bill calling for investigation of defense minister’s past business
By ToI Staff
Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting, in the Knesset on October 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 17, 2022, 2:52 am
‘Ra’am is toying with us’: 3 opposition bills advance amid Islamist party’s boycott
Dispute between Arab party and rest of coalition said to stem from approval of so-called Citizenship Law as well as gov’t tabling of bill granting tax benefits to Bedouin villages
By ToI Staff
Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the opposition Religious Zionism Party, outside the Knesset, on July 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 4, 2022, 11:36 pm
Opposition parties boycott Knesset over fast-tracking of Electricity Bill
Statement claims move to skip debate over legislation that would connect illegally built homes to the power grid ‘severely damages Israeli democracy’
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Shirly Pinto brings her new baby to the Knesset on December 15, 2021 (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
December 15, 2021, 5:57 pm
MK forced to come to Knesset with six-day-old baby, but coalition still loses a vote
Opposition had declined to offset new mom Shirly Pinto if she’d stayed away; but another coalition MK boycotted session, and Ra’am’s Abbas flubbed a vote, leading to opposition win
By ToI Staff
Opposition leader and ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the opening of the Knesset's winter session, in Jerusalem on October 4, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
October 4, 2021, 8:09 pm
Failed leadership: Bennett, Netanyahu trade blame on COVID, Iran in Knesset
At opening of winter session, opposition chief accuses current coalition of ‘abandoning people to their deaths’; PM claims previous government led ‘2 years of stagnation’
By Raoul Wootliff
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