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Nissim Vaturi

Likud members are seen posing in a cutout with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a polling station in Jerusalem during primary elections on August 17, 2026, to determine the party’s Knesset list ahead of the Israeli general elections. The text reads, "I'm with Bibi too!" (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 18, 2026, 8:17 pm
Likud primary results boost Netanyahu’s bid to reshape sinking party, win back voters
With Likud bleeding support, PM is hoping that bringing relative moderates to top of slate, rather than far-rightists preferred by party’s hardcore, can make the difference in October’s general election
By Sam Sokol
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
Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks in the Knesset plenum, December 11, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
December 17, 2025, 10:52 pm
Knesset advances bills easing way for political appointments at state companies
Coalition-backed legislation would loosen rules on appointments, could allow ministers to choose candidates without requisite qualifications, appoint associates to top roles
By Sam Sokol
MK Nissim Vaturi speaks during a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on, August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 12, 2025, 11:50 pm
Likud MK: Meir Kahane ‘was right about many things, today he’d get the Israel Prize’
Statement by Nissim Vaturi, which sparks heckling, marks stark departure from Likud’s opposition to extremist rabbi when he served in Knesset in the 1980s before being banned
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot protests against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers accused of severely abusing a terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
October 27, 2025, 1:02 pm
Far-right MK Zvi Sukkot summoned for police questioning over 2024 IDF base break-in
Religious Zionism lawmaker reportedly to be interviewed in November over mob storming of facility in support of army reservists who were accused of abusing Palestinian detainee
By Charlie Summers
MK Hanoch Milwidsky (left) chairs a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, July 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); (From left) MKs Meirav Ben-Ari, Pnina Tamano-Shata, and Efrat Rayten, at a press conference opposing the appointment of Milwidsky as Finance Committee chair, July 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 29, 2025, 6:51 pm
Likud MK under investigation for rape approved as new head of Knesset Finance Committee
Lapid decries ‘misogynistic coalition’ for voting to give Hanoch Milwidsky the powerful post; opposition female lawmakers and advocacy groups lament ‘new low’
By Sam Sokol
Likud's Yuli Edelstein leads a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 21, 2025, 4:26 pm
Likud to boot Knesset defense panel head Edelstein for blocking Haredi draft exemption
Party to select Edelstein’s replacement on Wednesday as Netanyahu looks to pave path to passing controversial legislation, keeping coalition afloat; opposition threatens to boycott the committee
By Sam Sokol
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of severly abusing a Palestinian inmate, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
May 11, 2025, 4:38 pm
Three coalition members summoned for questioning over July riot at IDF holding facility
Nissim Vaturi says he won’t show up for interrogation; he, Zvi Sukkot and Amichay Eliyahu joined mob that stormed Sde Teiman to protest arrest of troops suspected of inmate abuse
By ToI Staff
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of severly abusing a Palestinian inmate, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 2:43 am
Lawmakers who broke into IDF base during far-right riot to be investigated by police
Two of the coalition members say they’ll refuse to answer summons; Eliyahu, Vaturi and former MK Sukkot echo conspiracy that ‘deep state’ targeting them, rail at attorney general
By ToI Staff
Left to right: The Democrats party leader Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Likud MK Tally Gotliv at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 1, 2025 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen attends a Labor and Welfare Committee meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 9, 2025, 10:24 pm
Democrats head threatens legal action against coalition MKs for pushing conspiracies
‘I am determined to dismantle the poison machine,’ Yair Golan says, slamming MKs Tally Gotliv and Almog Cohen for allegedly defaming him with unfounded claims
By Sam Sokol
MK Nissim Vaturi (left) attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on August 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); The Democrats party leader Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 8, 2025, 4:15 pm
Likud MK Vaturi suggests Democrats leader Golan betrayed country on Oct. 7
Right-wing lawmaker amplifies conspiracy theory, says opposition party chief would do anything to bring down Netanyahu; Golan demands apology, threatens to sue
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters who broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists suspected of abusing Palestinian terrorist detainees, in Kfar Yona, July 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv/AFP)
December 15, 2024, 10:04 pm
Report: Police ID 20 rioters who broke into IDF bases, but isn’t investigating them
Senior cops said to oppose prosecuting right-wing activists and MKs who stormed bases in July in response to detention of soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinian inmate
By ToI Staff
A soldier-reporter for Israel's Army Radio, seen at work on November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
November 28, 2024, 8:10 pm
Coalition push to privatize state media continues with bill to sell off Army Radio
Likud MK Nissim Vaturi’s proposed law echoes language found in controversial legislation, panned by press advocates, to sell off the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits on one side of a desk, as his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman takes notes at the head of the desk, in a meeting with top security officials: (L-R) Maj. Gen. Ronen Gofman, the premier's military aide; IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi; then-defense minister Yoav Gallant; Mossad chief David Barnea; and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at the IDF's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 2, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
November 17, 2024, 10:51 pm
Ministers back bills creating new intelligence oversight body, banning ‘enemy’ flags
Despite PMO classified documents scandal, legislation establishes a ‘devil’s advocate’ unit, reporting directly to Netanyahu, that would challenge other intel bodies’ findings
By Sam Sokol
Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)
October 16, 2024, 6:30 pm
‘It is doable’: 10 Likud MKs to attend conference calling for ‘resettling Gaza’
Almost a third of lawmakers in Netanyahu’s party to participate in event organized by Nachala Settlement Movement, after a similar confab months ago drew widespread backlash
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
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