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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Likud-Beytenu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin pose with heads of political parties and other officials after the opening session of the 20th Knesset on March 31, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 1, 2015, 3:12 pm
Everyone’s having a good time
The 20th Knesset gets sworn in and it looks like it’s back to business
By Judah Ari Gross
Then-minister of education Gideon Sa'ar (left) and then-minister of environment Gilad Erdan (right) flank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they make calls to potential voters ahead of national elections, in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2013. (Gideon Markowicz/ Flash90)
October 16, 2014, 10:03 pm
Does PM’s bid for early Likud primaries mean elections are near?
Netanyahu is unassailable as party leader, but the Likud is shrinking in the Knesset, he’s under pressure from its far-right wing, and he’s facing rivalries among close allies
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Finance Minister and Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid addresses the General Assembly in Jerusalem, November 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
September 19, 2014, 10:19 am
Lapid hopes popular Likud minister returns to politics
Resignation of Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar makes Yesh Atid the largest party in the Knesset
By ToI Staff
Yair Lapid (center), and Tzipi Livni (right), with Moshe Ya'alon (left) at a 2013 cabinet meeting. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)
July 30, 2014, 5:50 am
The war of the doves
As Israel’s security cabinet steers the battle against Hamas, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid are proving solidly supportive of Netanyahu — because they want to see Abbas rehabilitated
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference in the Knesset on July 15, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2014, 8:30 pm
Liberman’s unacceptable war on Netanyahu
If the foreign minister thinks the prime minister is doing a lousy job, he should either shut up when outvoted or quit, not publicly undermine the PM at the height of a bitter conflict with Hamas
By David Horovitz
A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)
July 8, 2014, 2:51 pm
Launching war and talking peace
Israel’s latest campaign against Gaza garners major headlines and more analysis, though one paper trumps the news with a call to peace by Obama
By Joshua Davidovich
July 7, 2014, 5:15 pm
The Likud-Beytenu divorce has nothing to do with Gaza
…and everything to do with Avigdor Liberman’s political aspirations. By splitting up over Israel’s response to rockets, the foreign minister scores points with the right while ending a no-longer-convenient marriage
By Raphael Ahren
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks with the press before entering the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, June 1, 2014. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash 90)
July 7, 2014, 12:04 pm
Liberman dissolves Likud-Beytenu Knesset partnership
FM says ‘essential’ differences with Netanyahu behind decision; move shrinks PM’s Knesset faction from 31 seats to just 20
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A red carpet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 19, 2014, 1:51 pm
Presidential elections called for June 10
Reuven Rivlin officially throws his hat in the ring as the race to succeed Shimon Peres heats up
By ToI Staff
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
May 19, 2014, 1:41 am
Edelstein to announce June presidential elections date
Knesset speaker’s announcement to end speculation about run-up to presidential race married by scandal, controversy
By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman
MK Ze'ev Elkin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 12, 2014, 12:03 pm
Key Knesset committee gets a chairman at long last
With placing of Ze’ev Elkin at helm of Foreign Affairs and Defense panel, Likud-Beytenu retains all top security posts
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is surrounded by supporters as he arrives at a Likud party conference at Ganei HaTaarucha in Tel-Aviv, May 07, 2014 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 8, 2014, 5:55 am
In key vote, Netanyahu quells Likud insurgency
The collapse of peace talks and a new focus on engaging the party faithful brings domestic tranquility to Israel’s ruling party
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 8, 2014, 3:49 pm
Popular ex-Likud minister slams old party, plans political comeback
Moshe Kahlon says he never agreed with PM on social policy, disadvantaged Israelis being abandoned, far-right taking over Likud
By Aron Dónzis
Uzi Landau (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)
April 2, 2014, 11:04 am
Ministers threaten retaliation over Abbas’s UN move
‘Annexation’ and ‘financial sanctions’ on the table, tourism minister says; Feiglin: Cancel ‘infernal’ Oslo accords
By Spencer Ho and AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters after the exit polls in the general elections were announced, January 22, 2013. Standing to his left, applauding, is Likud MK Danny Danon. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2014, 9:02 pm
Internal Likud fight could shift Israel’s balance of power
A fierce battle is raging for control of the ruling party — and the country’s political future hangs in the balance
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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