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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Michal Biran

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir in the Knesset, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 4:38 am
Labor MK says Netanyahu to blame for death threats against her
Stav Shaffir says prime minister leading group of extremists who have threatened her since tussle with far-right Otzma Yehudit over bid to have party banned
By ToI Staff
Labor party MK Stav Shaffir, center, during a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 6, 2019, 8:45 pm
Labor lawmaker Stav Shaffir gets death threats, blames Otzma Yehudit supporters
After MK calls for disqualifying members of the far-right faction, she receives message saying she needs ‘an electric shock to your leftist brain’
By ToI Staff
Yaron Atias and his wife Mazal Dadon Atias pictured with their children in September 2015. (Facebook)
May 22, 2018, 12:30 pm
Female lawmakers boycott MK’s speech after he invites divorce refuser to Knesset
Ten MKs walk out of Yehudah Glick’s address to protest his meeting with Yaron Atias, subject of a shunning order from a rabbinical court
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Likud MK Oren Hazan speaking during a Knesset plenary session, November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 2:54 pm
Bad-boy Likud MK slapped with 6-month ban on Knesset activities
Ethics Committee says Oren Hazan has ‘disgraced the Knesset, taking it to an unprecedented low’; hands him maximum penalty for insulting fellow lawmakers
By Raoul Wootliff
Likud MK Oren Hazan reacts to a speech by Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi at the Knesset on December 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 30, 2018, 5:11 pm
Scandal-ridden MK to be booted from Knesset plenum for 6 months
Ethics Committee set to give Oren Hazan the maximum penalty for insulting fellow lawmakers; bans two opposition MKs for a week
By Michael Bachner
Likud MK Oren Hazan during a plenum session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2017, 6:23 am
Likud MK tells colleague she’s too ugly to be a prostitute
Scandal-plagued Oren Hazan again derides female lawmakers, tells Michal Biran in heated Knesset debate ‘nobody would even look at you’
By ToI Staff
Israeli lawmakers and South African Jewish leaders meet with ANC party official and African Union chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, center, in Johannesburg on August 14, 2017. (Embassy of Israel in South Africa)
August 25, 2017, 2:07 pm
First-ever delegation of MKs visits South Africa
Lawmakers meet with politicians from the ruling and opposition parties, visit South African Jewish communities
By ToI Staff
File: Women protesting sexual harasment. Flash 90
May 31, 2016, 10:15 pm
Nearly 90% of female MKs say they’ve been sexually harassed
Lawmakers interviewed for Channel 2 open up on grim experiences and say problem exists even within Knesset
By Daniel Douek
Speaking during a town hall-style gathering outside Boston on April 13, 2016, MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) addresses the audience at Temple Emanuel in Newton (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
April 14, 2016, 2:09 pm
On US tour, Israeli politicians debate Diaspora Zionism
Amid rifts on core issues such as the peace process and Jewish identity, MKs urge ‘unity’ in Israel-Diaspora relations
By Matt Lebovic
File: A meeting of the Knesset Education Committee on December 22, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 5, 2016, 4:05 pm
6 MKs ousted from stormy ‘Breaking the Silence’ Knesset meet
Controversial group boycotts hearing to discuss Education Minister’s decision to ban it from high schools
By Sue Surkes
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio prepares to marry same-sex couples in front of City Hall on June 26, 2015 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images/AFP)
June 28, 2015, 12:18 pm
Ya’alon a rare upbeat voice on right as Israeli pols hail US same-sex marriage
Defense minister hopes Israel will follow America’s lead; Labor calls Supreme Court decision a ‘historic moment’
By Jonathan Beck
Labor Party chairman Isaac Herzog visits the party's primary headquarters in Holon, January 11, 2015. (Flash90)
January 13, 2015, 6:19 pm
For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory
Even as the party soars in the polls, its 49,000 eligible voters make this its smallest primary in history
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Demonstrators at a Tag Meir rally hold up a sign reading 'We don't have enough children for futile revenge,'in Jerusalem on July 2, 2014. (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
July 2, 2014, 11:58 pm
In Jerusalem, cries to ‘stop the cycle of blood’
At tolerance rally, Labor MK says witnessing nationalistic Jewish violence is like ‘looking at ourselves in the mirror’
By Elhanan Miller
Labor Party member Stav Shaffir at a Finance committee meeting in the Knesset. December 16, ,2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
May 3, 2014, 12:27 am
Female Knesset members tour US
Michal Biran, Stav Shaffir, Yifat Kariv and Ayelet Shaked to meet with Congress, state legislators to explore legislative process
By JTA
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