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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Ministry for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee

Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid (left) and National Unity head MK Benny Gantz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 23, 2023, 5:58 am
‘Capitulation’: Opposition slams PM’s deals with Ben Gvir, UTJ to secure budget
Agreements put coalition out of danger of collapse; Lapid, Gantz, Liberman, Michaeli and Tibi take aim at large sums offered to Haredim, settlers and far-right party
By ToI Staff
Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Otzma Yehudit party chief MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 11:42 pm
Netanyahu, Ben Gvir reach spending deal, removing last hurdle to passing budget
PM to hand Otzma Yehudit ministry NIS 250 million from year-end surplus, ending far-right minister’s threat to block crucial budget passage
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)
May 21, 2023, 10:01 am
Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount, says it proves Israel ‘in charge’ at holy site
Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and others pan move by far-right police minister, who urges more funds for Jewish settlement in Negev and Galilee to show Israel is sovereign there too
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionist party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset plenum, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 14, 2023, 5:58 pm
Ben Gvir says party opposes budget over lack of funds ‘to Judaize Negev and Galilee’
Despite receiving NIS 460m ($125m) from NIS 13.7b ($3.7b) in cabinet-approved discretionary funds, far-right Otzma Yehudit demands more money for northern and southern regions
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Members of the new Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pose for a group photo at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 1:20 pm
Who’s who in the new Netanyahu-led government
A look at the 32 ministers, just 6 of them women, in Israel’s 37th government from Likud and its far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners, and some of their newly created ministries
By ToI Staff
Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir addresses a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 25, 2022, 11:29 pm
Gantz blasts Netanyahu for making Ben Gvir ‘the real PM’ with expanded security role
Outgoing defense minister says PM-designate creating ‘private army’ for Ben Gvir, legitimizing ‘de-facto annexation’ concerns by granting authority over West Bank to Smotrich
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Amir Ohana in Beit El, in the West Bank, July 12, 2022 (Sraya Diamant/Flash90) and (R) MK Miri Regev in Jerusalem, May 29, 2022 (Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)
November 22, 2022, 3:21 pm
Ohana will head up Foreign Ministry, Regev to be named education minister – report
Either Yoav Kisch or Ofir Akunis said in line for role of Knesset speaker; UTJ reportedly to get Housing Ministry — one of 7 ministries to be controlled by Haredi parties
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionist head Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion in the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 21, 2022, 6:51 pm
Report: Smotrich to become finance, not defense, minister in compromise with Likud
In emerging breakthrough in coalition negotiations, defense portfolio to be held by Netanyahu’s party; Shas leader Deri to get a ‘super ministry’ consolidating powers, TV news says
By ToI Staff
Israelis holding signs of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) take part in a Tu Bishvat tradition of planting trees in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Michmash, Wednesday, January 15, 2014. (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
January 19, 2017, 7:35 pm
State Comptroller slams bloated JNF, concerns of criminal activity
Government watchdog says organization’s operational arm has little government oversight, may have conflicts of interest
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks at a conference on how to develop northern Israel, in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, December 26, 2016. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
December 27, 2016, 7:46 pm
Finance minister scorns Netanyahu’s call to up and buy homes
After PM tells crowd to go out and buy apartments, Moshe Kahlon says few can afford current high prices
By Stuart Winer
Shas party leader and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, right, presents his letter of resignation from the Knesset to Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein, October 31, 2016. (Knesset spokesperson)
October 31, 2016, 7:39 pm
Shas party leader resigns from Knesset, remains minister
Aryeh Deri says move will give him more time to focus on interior and rural development portfolios, other cabinet duties
By Stuart Winer
Economy Minister Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem, on October 25, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
November 1, 2015, 1:04 pm
PM: Deri quits Economy Ministry, paving way for gas deal
Netanyahu says he will take portfolio, green-light controversial agreement on offshore fields; Shas head to get portfolio to be named later
By AFP and ToI Staff
President Shimon Peres speaks at the Galilee Forum (Photo credit: Courtesy)
January 1, 2014, 6:36 pm
Peripheral ‘progress’ moves north with new medical project
The Galilee, long thought of as a place to ‘get way from it all,’ is set to get a lot closer to the ‘it all’ of the country’s business centers
By David Shamah
Energy and Water Resources Minister Silvan Shalom (center) prepares to turn on the connection that will pump natural gas into a Ramat Hovav factory, the first factory in Israel to use natural gas as its source of power (Photo credit: Courtesy Phibro Israel)
August 8, 2013, 12:04 pm
‘Israel’s dump’ now trailblazer for a better environment
Ramat Hovav, once an environmental minefiled, is reborn as an eco-park — and a center for clean-burning and alternative energy projects
By David Shamah
Illustrative: A Nubian Ibex seen on the cliffs of Makhtesh Ramon (Ramon crater). (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
February 7, 2013, 11:13 am
The birth of a new ‘Silicon Wadi’ in the Negev
The Israeli branch of McCann Erickson is opening an advanced, 21st-century office in the ancient region of the Ramon Crater
By David Shamah
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