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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

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Head of the Democrats Yair Golan at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2024, 9:03 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What’s left of the left?
As Likud and PM Netanyahu rise in the polls, ToI’s senior analyst discusses why even life-long leftists are finding it difficult to contemplate voting for their ‘home’ parties
By ToI Staff
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 10:23 pm
Lapid says Netanyahu orchestrating attorney general’s ouster to revive overhaul
‘We will not participate in pretending that Israel is a democracy if it ceases to be so,’ opposition leader declares, pledging to ‘not rule out any step or action’
By Sam Sokol
Labor chairman Yair Golan (fifth from left) stands with members of his new united left-wing party 'The Democrats.' (via X, formerly Twitter)
June 30, 2024, 10:08 pm
Labor and Meretz merge into united ‘liberal-democratic Zionist party’: The Democrats
Union ‘a necessary condition for a change of government,’ says Labor chief; Meretz secretary general promises party will be ‘bigger and more influential than the Kahanists’
By Sam Sokol
Yair Golan attends a protest outside of Jerusalem against the government, demanding new elections. May 4, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 27, 2024, 12:14 pm
‘A political corpse’: Tuesday primary could mark revival of ailing Labor party
Former Meretz MK Yair Golan is expected to win Labor’s top spot, opening possibility for merger of two leftist parties as Meretz says it’s ‘ready in principle’ for step
By Sam Sokol
File: Yair Golan speaks during an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, March 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 17, 2024, 5:09 pm
Labor MKs Lazimi, Kariv endorse Yair Golan for party leadership ahead of primaries
In implicit rebuke of outgoing party chair Merav Michaeli, ex-Meretz MK Golan pledges ‘to create a large and wide movement’ on the political left
By Sam Sokol
MK Gideon Sa'ar arrives for a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset on October 9, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
March 14, 2024, 10:42 am
Polls show slow start for solo Sa’ar, dramatic impact for Bennett and Cohen parties
Surveys show New Hope leader may struggle after split from Gantz, but a potential dramatic reshaping of political map if former PM and ex-Mossad chief were to run
By ToI Staff
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speaks during an event of the Shas party ahead of the municipal elections in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
February 29, 2024, 5:00 pm
In first, ultra-Orthodox parties win majority on Jerusalem city council
‘We don’t want to turn Jerusalem into Bnei Brak,’ says Deputy Mayor Eliezer Rauchberger, adding ‘we’re here to demand our share’ in an equitable manner
By Sam Sokol
Professor Amnon Rubinsten during a press conference, February 10, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 18, 2024, 9:07 pm
Amnon Rubinstein, ‘the father of Israel’s constitutional law,’ dies at 92
Former lawmaker and Israel Prize winner played key role in shaping Israel’s legal and political landscape during 25-year Knesset career, before retiring to write novels
By ToI Staff
A Meretz campaign poster ahead of the general elections, in Tel Aviv, on March 14, 2021. "We must not lose Meretz," it reads. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
August 21, 2023, 12:53 pm
With Meretz wiped out of Knesset, party’s local candidates struggle to raise funds
Left-wing party was a force in municipal elections for decades, but with it now in debt and barred from subsidizing campaigns, some contenders have reluctantly dropped the brand
By Tal Schneider
Labor leader Merav Michaeli, center, with Labor party MKs Gilad Kariv, second from right, and Naama Lazimi, left, after the results of the Labor party primaries were announced, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 9, 2023, 12:38 am
Challenging party boss, Labor MK to push for merger with Meretz to shore up left
Referencing ‘mistakes’ that led to Netanyahu win, Gilad Kariv launches bid for unity previously nixed by Labor head Merav Michaeli, with party said looking for a change at the top
By ToI Staff
Morocco's players celebrate with a Palestinian flag at the end of the Qatar 2022 World Cup round of 16 football match between Morocco and Spain at the Education City Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha, on December 6, 2022. (Glyn KIRK / AFP)
December 14, 2022, 1:02 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 14: A UN investigator’s biased social media; World Cup lessons
From the US, reporter Luke Tress discusses a NY anti-antisemitism program, while correspondent Jacob Magid reflects on his talks with politicians on Israel’s decimated left
By ToI Staff
The funeral of 16-year-old Israeli-Canadian Aryeh Schupak who was killed earlier on November 23, 2022 in a terror attack in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 24, 2022, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 24: As Israel mourns two teens, coalition talks turn rancorous
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on bombings fallout and corpse recovery; political correspondent Tal Schneider on demise of Meretz; legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on override clause
By ToI Staff
Meretz party head Zehava Galon speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, September 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 17, 2022, 11:20 am
Meretz leader Zehava Galon said set to resign over catastrophic loss
Party rival Yair Golan praises reported move, which comes after left-wing faction failed to make it into the Knesset
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Labor party leader Merav Michaeli casts her ballot at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset elections on November 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 7, 2022, 5:48 am
The Israeli left has lost more than an election
Israel’s left has been in freefall for 3 decades. It didn’t lose ground in the election; it simply woke up to the mismatch between its political institutions and the electorate
By Haviv Rettig Gur
File: Meretz leader Zehava Galon, left, speaks to thousands of Israeli Left wing activists during a rally in Tel-Aviv on May 27, 2017; Labor leader Merav Michaeli attends a conference in Rishon Lezion on July 19, 2022. (Gili Yaari/Flash90); (Flash90)
November 3, 2022, 10:54 pm
Netanyahu won 8-seat majority over his opponents despite near-parity in raw votes
With Meretz and Balad failing to cross the electoral threshold, some 289,000 votes were wasted by anti-Netanyahu parties, smoothing the right-wing religious camp’s path to victory
By Jeremy Sharon
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