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Moshe Tur-Paz

Yesh Atid party chair MK Yair Lapid at a faction meeting in the Knesset, June 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 7, 2026, 4:47 pm
With his own hands, Yair Lapid dismantled his life’s work
Facing dismal polls and amid a desperate merger with Naftali Bennett, the centrist leader abruptly ended the careers of almost 20 sitting Yesh Atid lawmakers
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Haredi conscription outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, January 4, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
January 27, 2026, 10:46 pm
Up to 80% of all draft evaders are ultra-Orthodox, IDF general tells Knesset
Total number of those classified as draft evaders or as having not shown up when ordered jumps from 13,000 to 68,000 over just two years, after broad Haredi exemption ruled illegal
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Yuli Edelstein attends a meeting of the Knesset House Committee, August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 22, 2025, 9:48 pm
Likud to kick Edelstein off Knesset defense panel after he votes for annexation bill
Former Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair says ‘dismissal is a moral badge of honor for me’; opposition MK: Netanyahu wants yes-men
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Dov Lando addresses an anti-enlistment conference in Bnei Brak, July 31, 2025. (Daniel Nafusi)
August 6, 2025, 9:55 pm
Senior Haredi leader threatens ‘global struggle like never before’ to avoid IDF draft
Ultra-Orthodox party source says community has plans for ‘quiet civil disobedience,’ while other sources say it has little power to prevent arrests of draft dodgers
By Sam Sokol
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit hears petitions at the High Court of Justice against the firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in Jerusalem, April 8, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
June 23, 2025, 6:09 pm
High Court postpones debate over AG’s ban on Netanyahu from hiring Shin Bet chief
Justice Minister Levin blasts Chief Justice Amit for pushing off hearing, accuses him and court of harming state security; opposition MK accuses minister of stoking division
By Jeremy Sharon
Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the conscription of Haredim to the IDF in Jerusalem on October 31, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
February 16, 2025, 7:06 pm
Increasing Haredi IDF enlistment requires strong sanctions, Finance Ministry tells MKs
Budget official says conscription effort will only work if those who refuse to serve feel a real pinch in their pocket; Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz: Economic sanctions needed now
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox students seen at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
January 31, 2025, 1:15 am
Debating ultra-Orthodox enlistment law, MKs argue how to define who is Haredi
Only 32% of recruits listed as Haredim are actually ultra-Orthodox, Israel Democracy Institute researcher Gilad Malach tells Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox extremists protest and clash with police outside a conference honoring Haredi soldiers in Jerusalem, January 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 9:08 pm
Shas’s Deri gives government two months to pass law exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF
If the status of yeshiva students is not settled by March ‘we’ll go to elections,’ he warns; Shas MK Taieb says his son will go to jail rather than enlist in IDF
By Sam Sokol
Chairman Yuli Edelstein, right, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, second from right, during a closed meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, December 16, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
January 10, 2025, 3:53 am
Katz to present ultra-Orthodox enlistment proposal at key Knesset committee next week
Opposition member of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee accuses defense minister of seeking to advance ‘evasion law that will please the Haredim and keep them in the coalition’
By Sam Sokol
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein attends a debate on the government-backed Haredi draft legislation, June 24, 2024. (Noam Moshkovitz/Knesset spokesperson)
November 19, 2024, 4:51 pm
With Gallant gone, Edelstein is the ‘final obstacle’ to Haredi draft exemption law
‘It doesn’t seem feasible at the moment for a law to pass,’ one Haredi coalition member concedes, but says government unlikely to fall over the issue
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A Palestinian class at the Salem School, East Jerusalem, December 6, 2017. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90/ File)
November 5, 2024, 6:21 pm
Knesset passes law allowing government to fire teachers it asserts identify with terror
Right-wing MKs call new law an important tool in preventing radicalization; rights group ACRI says it ‘violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy’
By Sam Sokol
Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 Hamas attack, at the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 12:18 am
‘I’m only human’: Regev faces growing criticism over wartime transit, travel snafus
From allegedly failing to arrange buses for reservists to mistakenly claiming to be at a cabinet meeting but on a trip to Budapest, Israel’s transport minister is in the crosshairs
By Sam Sokol
FILE — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
September 22, 2024, 9:13 pm
PM says weighing plan for siege on Hamas in north Gaza; believes half of hostages alive
During closed-door meeting with lawmakers, Netanyahu argues putting pressure on Hezbollah could help force Hamas’s Sinwar to the table, predicts ICC arrest warrants coming soon
By Sam Sokol
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in the Knesset on May 19, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
May 19, 2024, 5:31 pm
At Knesset, GOP lawmaker warns Oct. 7 ‘could happen in US’ if Israel not victorious
Addressing MKs, Elise Stefanik slams Biden’s decision to pause arms shipment over Rafah op, praises Trump’s ‘historic support’ for Israel
By Sam Sokol
Left: Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaking during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); right: MK Ram Ben Barak leading a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Internal security Committees, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2024, 4:36 pm
Yesh Atid holds first leadership vote — with Lapid widely expected to maintain power
Challenger MK Ram Ben Barak says he does not have major policy disagreements with longtime chairman, but wants to encourage change and democratization of party
By Sam Sokol
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