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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Michal Shir

Likud Head MK Benjamin Netanyahu surrounded by MKs after a vote for the new Knesset speaker at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 22, 2022, 9:49 am
Hanukkah miracle or government of darkness: Lawmakers react to coalition declaration
Likud’s Barkat hails ‘stable’ government; Lapid: ‘Most extreme government ever’; Liberman: It’ll bring a halachic state, gender segregation; Yesh Atid MK: Allies distrust Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Noam MK Avi Maoz leaving the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 7, 2022, 5:11 pm
Far-right MK Maoz: Forms of ‘liberal religion’ are ‘darkness’ that must be expelled
Knesset comments by Maoz, who is set to assume control of some aspects of school curricula and a new ‘Jewish identity’ office, spark anger and booing in plenum
By ToI Staff
MK Michal Shir speaks at a Labor and Welfare Committee meeting in the Knesset, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2022, 6:48 pm
Journeywoman MK Michal Shir announces move from New Hope to Yesh Atid
In shift from right to center, pro-annexation MK who denounced Lapid as amateur in previous elections now joins his party, a ‘wall against those who try to break us up from within’
By ToI Staff
MK Orit Strook, center left, argues with Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Ahmed Tibi, right, in the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 1, 2022, 10:10 pm
Likud MKs back New Hope bill on bereaved siblings despite vow to always oppose gov’t
Several right-wing lawmakers ejected from plenum amid heated exchange with deputy speaker Ahmed Tibi; Justice Minister Sa’ar denies reports he is in talks for alternative coalition
By ToI Staff
Head of the New Hope party Gideon Saar, leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset on May 31, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2021, 10:11 am
New Hope submits bill barring person under indictment from serving as PM
MK Michal Shir says legislation, widely seen as targeting Netanyahu, will ‘rectify absurd situation’ in which indicted individual can lead country
By ToI Staff
Top row (L-R) Osnat Mark, Ayoub Kara, Gabi Ashkenazi, Avi Nissenkorn; 2nd row (L-R) Miki Haimovich, Assaf Zamir, Omer Yankelevich, Tehila Friedman; 3rd row (L-R) Moshe Ya'alon, Ofer Shelah, Gadeer Mreeh, Tzvi Hauser; Bottom row (L-R) Amir Peretz, Itzhik Shmuli, Yitzhak Cohen, Iman Khatib-Yasin
March 30, 2021, 12:43 pm
Renegades, rabble-rousers, TV anchors, army chiefs: The MKs who won’t be back
Dozens depart in latest election’s political culling — from longest-serving lawmaker to some of the briefest, as well as 3 women of 3 faiths who each made history in their own way
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Sharren Haskel announcing her resignation from the Knesset and the Likud party, on December 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 23, 2020, 1:22 pm
Sharren Haskel is latest Likud MK to defect to Sa’ar’s new party
Announcing her resignation from Knesset, New Hope’s latest recruit says ‘my conscience does not allow me to continue to support this government’
By Raoul Wootliff
Blue and White MK Miki Haimovich votes in the Knesset against a bill that might have staved off elections, December 21, 2020 (Knesset channel screenshot)
December 22, 2020, 4:10 pm
Hiding in the parking lot and ignoring calls, rebel MKs send Israel to elections
Likud MK comes to Knesset in decoy car, another ignores officials’ messages but responds to pro-cannabis activists. A Blue and White MK naps in his car, before a last-minute entry
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)
December 22, 2020, 3:58 pm
Renegade Likud MK quits after hastening election; colleague calls her a ‘bitch’
Michal Shir will join Gideon Sa’ar’s breakoff party New Hope; Osnat Mark takes back insult but maintains that defector was ‘insolent’ for voting against bill delaying national vote
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Likud MK Michal Shir in Jerusalem on November 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 22, 2020, 5:31 am
MK Michal Shir is latest Likud defector to Gideon Sa’ar’s party
After voting with opposition against bill that would have delayed budget deadline, Shir says no regrets in helping end ‘this embarrassing excuse for a government’
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)
July 17, 2020, 10:57 am
Likud MK slams Netanyahu for dismissing criticism of virus response as political
Michal Shir criticizes ‘threats against committee heads and MKs’ for questioning government decisions, says there’s still no clear plan for economic crisis
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Public Security Gilad Erdan speaks at Besheva conference in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 24, 2019, 10:44 pm
Breaking silence, top minister Erdan backs Netanyahu in Likud leadership race
Party’s No. 4 says he believes PM is ‘most fit’ to head party, but pushes back against growing acrimony in the primary by praising Gideon Sa’ar’s challenge
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar launches his campaign for party leader in Or Yehuda on December 16, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 17, 2019, 9:32 pm
Sa’ar allies complain Likud membership rolls purged ahead of leadership vote
Campaign chief for Netanyahu challenger says 5,000 members missing from list, unable to vote on leader next week; most of those removed said affiliated with New Likudniks group
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, Culture Minister Miri Regev (standing), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-transportation minister Israel Katz and Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis during a Knesset vote on a bill to dissolve parliament, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 3, 2019, 6:50 pm
As Likud girds for possible snap primary, Regev, Katz line up behind Netanyahu
Culture minister says she backs Netanyahu ‘no matter what’; MK Michal Shir says she would support PM’s rival Gideon Sa’ar in contest for party leader
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Backdropped by Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with Moshe Kahlon, January 21, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 23, 2019, 12:22 pm
Likud internal court rejects appeals against merger with Kulanu party
Two MKs had objected to move that pushed them lower on the party’s election slate, endangering their Knesset seats
By ToI Staff
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