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Michael Eitan

Michael Eitan (1944-2024), a longtime Likud MK, is seen in the Knesset, March 30, 2009. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
November 9, 2024, 7:56 am
Michael Eitan, longtime Likud MK turned Netanyahu critic, dies at 80
Politically active since he was in university, Eitan served in Knesset for 28 years, but said in 2019 he could no longer vote for Likud, declaring PM betrayed party’s principles
By ToI Staff
Former MK Michael Eitan holds a cup of coffee four months after brain surgery to relieve him of symptoms of Parkinson's disease.(Screncapture/Channel 12)
August 6, 2021, 4:08 am
Longtime ex-Likud MK staves off Parkinson’s with rare brain treatment
Michael Eitan hopes to inspire others by documenting dramatic improvements after deep brain stimulation surgery that quelled his tremors and allowed him to resume an active life
By ToI Staff
Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor (left) speaks with MK Benny Begin at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
October 13, 2019, 8:31 am
Freshman Likud MK seeks to expel party veterans critical of its policies
Shlomo Karai faces backlash, with right-wing lawmakers and activists debating steps against Benny Begin, Dan Meridor and others who have said they can no longer vote Likud
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of interrogation with the help of lie detector on June 26, 2011 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
March 6, 2016, 12:01 pm
When a job interview turns into an interrogation
In the United States, polygraph tests in the workplace have been outlawed for 28 years. Why are Israeli employers still using them?
By Simona Weinglass
Israeli politicians depicted as Nazis. (photo credit: Facebook screen capture)
December 11, 2014, 11:32 pm
Israeli expat in US suspected of depicting politicians as Nazis
Police are cooperating with American officials in probe; suspect to be interrogated upon arrival in Israel
By ToI Staff
A sample 'smart' biometric ID card of the sort that will be issued to replace existing cards in the coming years (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
July 8, 2013, 2:40 pm
Long-delayed biometric database pilot program gets underway
Despite security scandals, court petitions and popular opposition, some Israelis can now receive a ‘super-safe’ ID card — or so they’ve been told
By David Shamah
Paul Gross
January 31, 2013, 3:08 pm
Paul Gross
Israel’s Tea Party and how it helped Yair Lapid
The electorate recognized there was no alternative to Netanyahu, but that didn’t stop it from dragging him away from the intolerant nationalism of his party
Knesset members stand during a ceremony marking 17 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on October 28, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 5:16 pm
In the next Knesset, a radical case of musical chairs
It’s out with the old — more than 50 of them — and in with the new
By Gabe Fisher
Ed Rettig
January 2, 2013, 11:13 pm
Ed Rettig
The national unity government scenario
The Jewish Home party’s dramatic ascent could prompt Netanyahu to link arms with the left
Benny Begin (L) with Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Knesset in 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 3, 2012, 3:41 pm
The politics of petulance
Israel is moving to the right — unsurprisingly, given the threats on every front — but the Likud just took that shift to a whole new level. Electing a band of grandstanding populists, and announcing settlement plans as a kind of punishment to the Palestinians, won’t help Israel negotiate the treacherous new regional realities
By David Horovitz
A Likud supporter carries a poster of far-right party member Moshe Feiglin (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
November 25, 2012, 3:29 pm
Moderate Likud veterans may be on their way out as party’s young right flank set for gains
Moshe Feiglin said to have a shot at a realistic Knesset spot, but Netanyahu may seek to torpedo his candidacy — as he has done in the past
By Raphael Ahren
Minister for Improvement of Government Services Michael Eitan (left) arrives at the Likud convention in Tel Aviv, October 29 (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
October 30, 2012, 10:49 am
‘I may have been the only one to speak openly, but many opposed the deal,’ says Likud minister
Michael Eitan hops Likud’s party’s democratic principles will hold after alliance with Yisrael Beytenu
By Stuart Winer
A member of Likud raises a yellow note in favor of the joint Likud-Yisrael Beytenu Knesset list, Monday at the Likud Central Committee meeting (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
October 29, 2012, 11:19 pm
A slogan-filled speech from the PM, a frenzied wave of yellow papers, and ‘Likud-Beytenu’ is born
A revolt? A secret ballot highlighting widespread dissent? Not a bit of it. With the grumblers marginalized, Netanyahu steers his alliance with Liberman through an ecstatic Central Committee
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Likud Central Committee on Monday (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
October 29, 2012, 7:02 pm
Likud overwhelmingly endorses PM’s deal for joint Knesset list with Yisrael Beytenu
Netanyahu promises upbeat Central Committee gathering ‘Likud will remain an independent party,’ says he intends to lead Israel ‘for years to come’
By Elie Leshem and Ilan Ben Zion
October 28, 2012, 3:00 pm
Secret ballot possible Monday to determine fate of Likud-Yisrael Beytenu deal
Prime minister defends alliance, saying it will guarantee election success and clarifying that it is not a full-scale party merger
By Asher Zeiger
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