Nissim Vaturi

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

November 19, 2023, 9:27 am

Yair Netanyahu shares posts casting blame for Oct. 7 on courts, security services

Premier’s son, in Miami since before outbreak of war, shares clips and headlines implying judicial system, IDF and Shin Bet bear responsibility for massacre

By ToI Staff

Deputy Knesset Speaker Likud MK Nissim Vaturi at a discussion and vote on the coalition's reasonableness bill at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 19, 2023, 10:57 am

Deputy Knesset speaker: Anti-overhaul protesters in US are ‘worse’ than Iran, PLO

Amid outrage over PM’s assertion that anti-overhaul demonstrators are ‘teaming up’ with Israel’s enemies, far-right minister calls them ‘wild anarchists’ and ‘evil people’

By ToI Staff

Isaac Herzog and Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 5, 2023, 11:45 am

Herzog urges overhaul compromise as Levin rejects ‘impossible’ proposal

Justice minister says Netanyahu has not changed his position on plan to weaken legal system; president calls on sides to ‘look reality in the eye’ and come to an agreement

By ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2R) chairs a ministerial meeting in Jerusalem following migrant riots in south Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023 (Haim Zach/GPO)

September 3, 2023, 4:30 pm

‘A real threat’: PM backs widespread arrests, eyes deportations in migrant crackdown

After riots, cabinet members okay administrative detentions, weigh pulling work permits; Netanyahu says they’ll also strive ‘to get all the rest of the illegal infiltrators out’

By ToI Staff

Eritrean migrants who oppose and support that country's regime clash in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023 (Omer Fichman/Flash90)

September 2, 2023, 11:47 pm

Netanyahu says government will look into deporting migrants who rioted in Tel Aviv

Yariv Levin and other ministers argue day’s unrest is proof of need to overhaul judicial system; police chiefs back cops who used live fire against rioters

By ToI Staff

Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 28, 2023, 11:04 pm

Likud MK’s bill would give coalition power to ban political parties

Legislation seen as potential attempt to bar Arab parties from running; Nissim Vaturi asserts he submitted it only to expose hypocrisy of opposition, but has yet to withdraw it

By ToI Staff

Deputy Speaker MK Nissim Vaturi at the plenum hall of the Knesset, on June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 6, 2023, 11:03 am

Deputy speaker rebuffs Knesset legal adviser who chided him for not being evenhanded

Likud MK, trying to restore order during raucous clash between coalition and opposition, tells attorney she shouldn’t interfere with how he runs session

By ToI Staff

An Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopter releases flares during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in the West Bank on June 19, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

June 19, 2023, 1:58 pm

Far-right minister calls for use of tanks, airpower after heavy clashes in Jenin

Finance Minister Smotrich urges ‘broad operation’ in West Bank; Egypt accuses Israel of inflaming violence, raising regional tensions; Palestinians threaten unprecedented response

By ToI Staff and AP

File: Likud MK Nissim Vaturi, May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 17, 2023, 10:37 am

‘You shoot him’: Likud MK appears to suggest executing pilots who protested overhaul

Nissim Vaturi rails at air force members who threatened to skip training over judicial shakeup plans, says ‘people like this need to be kicked in the ass and get out of the army’

By ToI Staff

This composite image shows Likud MK Nissim Vaturi, left, speaking at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, on December 6, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90); and former PM Ehud Barak at a protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

June 11, 2023, 5:57 pm

Likud MK: Barak would be hanged ‘in other countries’ for civil disobedience calls

MK Nissim Vaturi says former PM should face jail term of ‘at least 20 years’ after urging ‘civil uprising’ at Saturday anti-government demonstration

By ToI Staff

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi joins supporters of former Border Police officer Orian Ben Khalifa, who was accused of assaulting a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem's Old City, in a protest outside her hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 7, 2023, 11:04 am

Wrangling over nominations for judicial selection panel strains overhaul talks

Coalition faces rogue candidates, as opposition says it won’t stay at the negotiating table unless it gets its traditional seat on the committee

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi attends a discussion in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 31, 2023, 5:20 pm

Likud MK: Some parents try to make their sons gay by giving them dolls to play with

Nissim Vaturi defends granting of control over vendor-provided curricula in schools to far-right lawmaker Avi Maoz, urges no promotion of any kind of gender identity

By ToI Staff

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

March 29, 2023, 11:49 am

Likud, far-right scorn Biden criticism; one MK says Israel can defend itself alone

Ben Gvir: ‘We’re not another star on US flag’; Likud’s Vaturi: ‘We’re probably more democratic’ than US; ex-envoy: Some US officials see Netanyahu as ‘existential danger to Israel’

By Michael Bachner