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Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a committee hearing, August 4, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 5, 2026, 5:32 pm
High Court freezes contentious Knesset funds for Haredi schools, Settlements Ministry
Justice Stein issues order due to ‘apparent procedural flaws’ in convening Finance Committee; coalition accuses court of hypocrisy, says similar funds allocated by last government
By Jeremy Sharon
Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, speaks during a party rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 26, 2026, 12:20 am
Launching election campaign, Democrats’ Golan says blood spilled in West Bank is on PM’s hands
At event ahead of weekly anti-government protests, left-wing party says it eyes education and justice ministries, vows to keep criminal defendants out of office, nix judicial overhaul laws
By Noam Lehmann
Left: Gal Eisenkot (IDF). Right: A young man depicted wearing a 'Unity of Israel' shirt in an AI-generated ad, shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against Gadi Eisenkot, on July 21, 2026. (Screenshot via X)
July 21, 2026, 7:46 pm
Critics accuse Netanyahu of mocking Eisenkot’s slain son in AI-generated ad
Video shows Yashar chief running past young man wearing ‘Israeli unity’ shirt, to instead hug Arab party Ra’am’s chairman Mansour Abbas; Likud denies young man is meant to resemble Gal Eisenkot
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
MKs Naama Lazimi (red jacket) and Gilad Kariv (to her right) celebrate with other Democrats party politicians after winning the No. 2 and No. 3 slots respectively on the party's Knesset slate, following party leader Yair Golan (to Kariv's right). The candidates gathered in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2026, after the party's primary. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 20, 2026, 9:53 pm
MK Naama Lazimi wins No. 2 spot after Yair Golan in left-wing Democrats’ primary
Party says 97,000 of 112,376 registered members cast ballots in digital vote; party leader predicts list will draw ‘more than a million voters’; Reform Rabbi Kariv comes in third
By Ariela Karmel
The Democrats party leader Yair Golan (left) shakes hands with new member Omri Ronen at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2026, 6:11 pm
Katz orders Democrats party candidate ousted from IDF reserves over call to refuse service
After Omri Ronen says he would support army refusal to prevent government’s alleged judicial ‘coup,’ defense minister vows not to allow ‘scourge of refusal’ among ranks
By Stav Levaton
Illustrative: Students at Bar Ilan University, November 21, 2024 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 10, 2026, 9:46 am
Top universities come out against legislation to expand gender segregation in academia
Tel Aviv University head: ‘Real, tangible danger’; Hebrew University says legislation would cause ‘direct harm to academic freedom’; Bar Ilan says quality of research would be harmed
By ToI Staff
MK Nissim Vaturi speaks (left) during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 9, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); MK Naama Lazimi attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, July 8, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2026, 7:35 pm
‘Even worse’ than Hamas: Likud MK Vaturi calls left-wing lawmaker Lazimi an ‘enemy’
The Democrats MK says right-wing lawmaker is ‘inviting the next political assassination’; Yair Golan: Coalition has ‘no limit to its disgrace’
By ToI Staff
MK Yitzhak Pindrus (left) attends a meeting of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); MK Naama Lazimi attends a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions seeking to overturn the election of attorney Michael Rabello as State Comptroller, June 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2026, 3:55 pm
Haredi MK Pindrus says opposition lawmaker Lazimi should be shot in legs for protesting
Asked if he believes cops should fire at demonstrators who block roads, including his party chair, UTJ lawmaker says: ‘Sure, but start with Lazimi’; Democrats MK files police complaint
By Ethan Rubinson
Police at the Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon on June 26, 2026 (Israel Police)
June 26, 2026, 8:27 pm
‘Here to stay’: Hundreds at Pride parade in flashpoint southern town of Mitzpe Ramon
Opposition MKs attend sixth annual parade; children allegedly throw eggs at participant in desert community whose authorities have previously sought to block the event
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev Desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 10, 2026, 12:28 pm
Yeshiva rabbis say they won’t send students to tank units due to integration of women
Leaders of 12 yeshivas in ‘hesder’ joint study-service program reject plan to allow women to serve with men; IDF source says army in ‘impossible situation,’ critics pan it as refusal to serve
By ToI Staff, Rossella Tercatin and Emanuel Fabian
Participants in the annual Pride March walk in a procession to the Knesset in Jerusalem, one holding a sign that reads, "All preferences are good except for the preference for fascism," on June 4, 2026. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
June 5, 2026, 3:19 am
‘Part of a larger struggle’: As elections loom, thousands march to Knesset for Jerusalem Pride
Marchers chant ‘democracy’ while holding ballot boxes, in procession guarded by some 2,000 police officers; partner of soldier killed fighting on Oct. 7 says Israel facing ‘fateful’ vote
By Charlie Summers
Female soldiers cut their military ID cards at an IDF base on the day of their discharge, when three of them were court-martialed and fined for wearing revealing clothing. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 18, 2026, 11:39 am
IDF court-martials female troops who showed up for discharge in tank tops, short skirt
Military docks pay of 3 women; mother calls incident ‘repulsive and humiliating’; punishment of troops comes amid uproar after medics were jailed for barbecuing on base on Shabbat
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of an altercation at an anti-government rally in Tel Aviv where a protester was attack with pepper spray, January 10, 2026. (Channel 12 screenshot)
January 11, 2026, 10:32 am
Right-wing activist accused of pepper-spraying anti-government protesters
Police question two men on suspicion of assaulting each other at Tel Aviv rally; marchers project ‘You are guilty’ on wall of Netanyahu’s party headquarters
By ToI Staff
The High Court of Justice holds a hearing in Jerusalem on a petition against the Knesset Finance Committee’s decision to transfer funds to ultra-Orthodox schools that don't teach core subjects, January 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 8, 2026, 4:46 pm
‘It was a ruse’: High Court judge rails at transfer of funds to Haredi schools
At hearing on petitions against payment of NIS 1 billion to ultra-Orthodox institutions, judges slam ‘illegal’ release of cash before oversight committee gave required okay
By Jeremy Sharon, Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of an underground parking lot at the Rishonim shopping mall in Rishon le Tzion, central Israel, December 5, 2024. (Yossi Aloni FLASH90)
November 27, 2025, 5:30 pm
Law mandating that parking lots charge by the minute set to go into effect
New regulations intended to do away with drivers paying for time they didn’t use, but some locations said to have raised rates to cover the loss
By ToI Staff
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