Limor Son Har-Melech

Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration marking the annual Land Day in the northern Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin on March 30, 2023 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

May 28, 2023, 5:55 pm

Bill to ban waving Palestinian flags on campuses temporarily shelved by ministers

Students violating the ban would face 30-day suspension, while repeat violators would become ineligible to get an Israeli degree for 5 years

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Israeli and pro-Palestinian students stage protests at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba on May 23, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

May 25, 2023, 4:28 pm

University heads denounce coalition bill that would ban display of Palestinian flag

Joint statement says measure would infringe on free speech, make schools ‘branches of police and Shin Bet’; Tel Aviv University chief vows not to enforce ‘fascist’ law if passed

By ToI Staff

View of the illegal settlement outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on November 17, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

May 22, 2023, 5:35 pm

Ultranationalist MK says goal of new law is to resettle north West Bank settlements

Otzma Yehudit’s Limor Son Har Melech strongly criticizes IDF, government for omitting three neighboring former settlements from military order allowing Israelis to reside in Homesh

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

May 21, 2023, 10:50 pm

Haredi MK threatens elections if budget demands ignored, says PM ‘not a leader’

MK Yaakov Eichler says faction needs to ‘reevaluate’ its place in government; Otzma Yehudit MK vows her party won’t compromise on its demands for extra Negev and Galilee funding

By ToI Staff

MK Limor Son Har Melech attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 17, 2023, 4:33 pm

Far-right bills against ‘enemy’ flags, ‘racist sexual harassment’ given initial okay

MKs pass in preliminary vote legislation that doubles punishment for sexual harassment if committed for racist motives, and a bill banning display of flags of hostile entities

By Stuart Winer

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (center) and MK Zvi Sukkot (to his left) dance during a prayer service marking Independence Day in Homesh in the nothern West Bank, April 26, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

April 26, 2023, 5:09 pm

Smotrich, far-right MKs join mass gathering at razed Homesh settlement

Lawmakers and former residents celebrate Independence Day shortly after parts of 2005 Disengagement Law rolled back by Knesset: ‘The true meaning of Jewish independence’

By ToI Staff

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, right, is accompanied by her spokesperson Elisha Yered as she arrives to testify at the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem, after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by Border Police officers during the demolition of a vineyard in the West Bank, February 26, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

March 19, 2023, 9:08 pm

Coalition lawmakers urge escalation against Palestinians following terror attack

Spokesman for Otzma Yehudit MK says Huwara must be ‘wiped out’; Ben Gvir urges death penalty for culprits; minister calls for reducing Palestinian traffic in area, seizing weapons

By Michael Bachner

Settlers pray as cars and homes burn in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

March 2, 2023, 1:10 pm

Far-right MK claims most fires in Huwara rampage were caused by Palestinians

Separately, security forces remove Religious Zionism MK who set up ‘parliamentary office’ in evacuated illegal outpost of Evyatar

By ToI Staff

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech surrounded by police as she protests the removal of a West Bank settler's illegally planted orchard on February 15, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter)

February 17, 2023, 10:44 am

MK files complaint against police for alleged sexual assault during West Bank fracas

Calling for suspensions, lawyer for Otzma Yehudit’s Limor Son Har-Melech says Border Police officers ‘clung’ to the MK and one ‘stuck his leg between her legs’

By Ash Obel

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen attends a right wing counterprotest against a demonstration by Arab Israeli students and left-wing activists against Israeli army operations in Jenin, at Tel Aviv University, January 30, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

February 16, 2023, 1:23 pm

Coalition MK calls Palestinians ‘Palestinazis,’ urges TikTok ban in East Jerusalem

As Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit reiterates disappointment with government’s policies, faction MK Almog Cohen says Palestinians have ‘Nazi culture,’ urges harsh steps

By Michael Bachner

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and Limor Son Har-Melech speak after government allows uprooting of illegally planted orchard near Shiloh in the West Bank, February 15, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

February 15, 2023, 7:06 pm

Ben Gvir pans government W. Bank policy: ‘This isn’t what we wanted, it can’t go on’

In warning to Netanyahu, national security minister says his party joined the coalition for it to be ‘completely right-wing’ and not ‘a government that’s only strong against Jews’

By Ash Obel

February 15, 2023, 5:10 pm

MK claims policeman sexually assaulted her during West Bank orchard confrontation

Otzma Yehudit’s Limor Son Har-Melech says ‘something completely forbidden’ happened amid clash with cops; police say conduct was respectful and professional

By ToI Staff

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech stands in front of a bulldozer on a plot of land near the settlement of Shiloh in the West Bank to stop the uprooting of trees by the Civil Administration of the Defense Ministry, February 15, 2023. (Office of Limor Son Har Melech)

February 15, 2023, 11:55 am

Far-right ministers fume over removal of settler’s trees, demanding promised powers

Netanyahu caves, orders operation to stop; Smotrich, Ben Gvir demand he give them authority over civilian control, Border Police in West Bank ‘immediately’ as per coalition deals

By Jeremy Sharon

Security forces move in to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost established in the West Bank on January 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

January 20, 2023, 2:52 pm

Illegal West Bank outpost evacuated on Gallant’s orders, in defiance of Smotrich

Demolition of site set up to commemorate national religious rabbi Druckman seen as first test of shaky coalition deal that divides authority of Defense Ministry in West Bank

By ToI Staff

Otzma Yedudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech (3R) poses with activists who set up an illegal outpost in the West Bank on January 20, 2023 (Courtesy)

January 20, 2023, 11:54 am

In test for coalition, illegal West Bank outpost set up in name of Rabbi Druckman

Organizers say site deliberately chosen to foil Palestinian territorial contiguity, call on Netanyahu government not to raze it like the previous government did

By Michael Horovitz