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An election poster featuring Likud MK Amit Halevi in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2025, 4:41 pm
Sweeping victories and upsets mark Likud’s first internal elections in 14 years
Barkat and Amsalem win Jerusalem, though liberal faction makes surprise showing; Defense Minister Katz suffers key defeats, signaling potential shake-up in party leadership
By Ariela Karmel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, with his wife and Likud party MKs at a Likud Central Committee gathering, toast the Jewish new year in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)
November 24, 2025, 11:50 pm
Likud to hold first national conference in almost 14 years to elect Central Committee
Ruling party’s powerful organ picks many of its candidates for Knesset elections, as well as members of high-level Secretariat; votes to be held due to intense internal pressure
By Ariela Karmel
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is surrounded by senior Likud lawmakers at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 25, 2021, 11:28 am
Netanyahu’s would-be heirs step out of his shadow, and into the firing line
Now two months in the opposition, the longtime ruling party’s front bench is champing at the bit and jockeying for position to prepare for the day after its leader is gone
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen next to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz at the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 4, 2016, 4:53 pm
Train crisis goes to heart of religion-state debate, but won’t derail government
Dispute over what public work gets done on Shabbat has brought chaos on the streets and within Likud, but the Haredim ultimately got what they wanted — and so the coalition will live another day
By Raphael Ahren
Traffic on Ayalon highway runs past the Arlozorov Train Station in Tel Aviv on June 23, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 4, 2016, 3:19 pm
Traffic unsnarls after train stoppage makes mess of morning commute
Police report movement ‘as usual’ along nation’s highways after hours of traffic jams from Netanyahu-Katz spat
By ToI Staff
Travelers at central Tel Aviv's central Savidor station checking a schedule, where no trains northbound are listed, on September 3, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 4, 2016, 6:50 am
Traffic jammed as halted train lines snarl morning commute
Gridlock reported between Tel Aviv and Haifa as some 150,000 passengers expected to be affected by closure of Tel Aviv-Haifa train line after political standoff over Sabbath repair work
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Katz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
September 3, 2016, 9:00 pm
PM slams transportation minister as train row reignites internal Likud battle
As his top aide accuses Katz of ‘putsch’ bid, Netanyahu says coalition crisis over Shabbat work was deliberate attempt to weaken his relationship with Haredi public
By ToI Staff
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with Yisrael Katz during a Knesset plenary session, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 17, 2016, 2:51 pm
Netanyahu moves to head off weakening of his Likud powers
Party’s secretariat, chaired by Minister Yisrael Katz, votes to impose oversight over PM’s campaign appointments and budget
By ToI Staff
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