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Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
July 14, 2023, 2:01 am
Nir Orbach, ex-MK who toppled previous government, to head new Jewish identity office
Far-right Avi Maoz launches body that will oversee school programing, says that while he opposed Orbach taking part in Bennett-Lapid coalition, he’s not ‘engaged in score-settling’
By Michael Bachner
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
September 15, 2022, 6:41 pm
Yamina MK Nir Orbach quits politics, urges Israeli right to ‘wake up’
Orbach, who left Bennett’s coalition in June prompting November’s election, says he will ‘personally’ take action to ensure that the next government is right-wing
By ToI Staff
Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference with Yoaz Hendel to announce their Zionist Spirit party at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, July 27, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 7:01 am
Zionist Spirit’s Shaked and Hendel end their short-lived political partnership
Leaders of party, which isn’t expected to enter the Knesset, part ways as Shaked says she’s willing to join Netanyahu government but Hendel won’t; Shaked to meet MKs Kara, Orbach
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked (L) speaks with New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 4, 2022, 11:50 am
Sa’ar, Shaked trade barbs over talks with Likud in battle for right-wing voters
Justice minister says anyone voting for Shaked knows she’ll join a Netanyahu government; interior minister says she was making ‘superhuman efforts’ to prevent elections
By Jeremy Sharon
Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett after a press conference at the Israeli parliament at which he announced he will not be running in the next elections. Ayelet Shaked, the new Yamina party leader, is at right. Stella Weinstein, Yamina's outgoing CEO, is at center, June 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 3, 2022, 12:43 am
Yamina’s ex-director lets fly at rebel MK Silman: She only had her next post in mind
‘They can lie as much as they want, but I was with them and saw it,’ Stella Weinstein says of party members who defied government, helping bring down Bennett-led coalition
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak ahead of the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, on June 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 29, 2022, 10:06 am
MKs gear up to dissolve Knesset in final votes; Lapid set to assume premiership
Key pieces of legislation fall victim to negotiations between coalition and opposition over election date; climate bill passes 1st reading; supervised dairy product prices to rise
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 27, 2022, 1:28 pm
Knesset dispersal process hampered as coalition, opposition resume talks on details
Key House Committee meeting repeatedly delayed to give MKs time to discuss election date and additional legislation, amid opposition efforts to form alternative government
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Labor MK Gilad Kariv speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on February 7, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
June 23, 2022, 11:59 pm
Coalition snatches bills from rebel-held committee to stymie snap election delay
Legally questionable maneuver by Labor MK aims at keeping Orbach from dragging feet to give alternate government a chance; panel will also discuss bill barring Netanyahu as PM
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset on December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 23, 2022, 2:00 pm
Daily Briefing June 23: Rebels, kingmakers & unlikely reunions as coalition unravels
Carrie Keller-Lynn updates us on the coalition’s collapse; Palestinian affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman projects forward, and one of the world’s oldest mosques is found
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
June 23, 2022, 11:18 am
Giving alternative gov’t a chance, Orbach delays Knesset dispersal process to Monday
Yamina rebel holds off on convening his House Committee, the next stop of the bill to call new elections; entire process expected to be completed next week, but unclear when
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset on June 22, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 22, 2022, 11:25 pm
Bennett said mulling timeout from politics, not running in next election
Israel TV says outgoing PM floated idea of a break at Yamina meeting; previously, his aides reportedly offered high-level posts to rebel Orbach in failed bid to make him quit as MK
By Michael Horovitz
Yamina MK Nir Orbach, leading a Knesset House Committee meeting, 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 22, 2022, 5:02 pm
Yamina rebel seeks to slow Knesset’s end, to allow more time to form alternate gov’t
Nir Orbach holds off on convening Knesset House Committee in order to delay legislation to disband parliament; says he’s in talks to form right-wing coalition without elections
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 20, 2022, 5:30 pm
Lapid: If Orbach gets reserved spot on Likud list, we’ll probe if it’s legal
Foreign minister says law prohibits trading a guaranteed election spot for vote against government; Yamina MK Orbach reportedly negotiating for Likud slot
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a no-confidence motion against the government at the Knesset, May 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 20, 2022, 10:19 am
Opposition may bring Knesset dispersal bill for preliminary vote on Wednesday
Netanyahu-led bloc will pull back proposal if it sees it cannot get a majority; reports say move may be an attempt to pressure Yamina’s Orbach to fully leave coalition
By ToI Staff
Opposition Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) walks next to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during the vote on the state budget, in the Knesset on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 20, 2022, 1:17 am
Bennett said resisting anti-Netanyahu bill, warning coalition will collapse
PM reportedly tells coalition partners that bringing the bill to bar MK charged with serious crime from being PM will push renegade Yamina MK Nir Orbach into arms of Netanyahu camp
By ToI Staff
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