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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Noam

Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks in the Knesset plenum on December 29, 2022, ahead of the swearing-in of the new government. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 3, 2023, 6:01 pm
Far-right Noam MK submits fresh bill to remove grandchild clause from Law of Return
Avi Maoz files proposed amendment despite similar legislation failing to advance; Netanyahu has said he doubts such a law will pass
By Canaan Lidor
Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 13, 2023, 7:58 pm
Far-right MK Avi Maoz threatens to quit coalition if he doesn’t get promised powers
Noam lawmaker says if coalition doesn’t meet demand before passing state budget in May, he will ‘work from the Knesset for the benefit of the public’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 28, 2023, 12:24 am
Far-right anti-LGBTQ Avi Maoz quits government, says his coalition deal was ignored
Noam chief was ‘shocked to find no serious intention’ to create Jewish National Identity Office, will remain in 64-MK coalition; Yesh Atid MK: One less homophobe in the government
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Benjamin Netanyahu, after presenting his new government to the Knesset, December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 5:13 pm
Netanyahu returns as PM, wins Knesset support for Israel’s most hardline government
Incoming coalition, approved by 63-54 votes, has pledged to hobble the High Court, consider West Bank annexation, and further centralize Orthodox control over state Jewish services
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Noam's sole MK Avi Maoz speaks during his party's faction meeting at the Knesset, November 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 7:13 pm
Far-right MK Maoz says will act according to law in handling Jewish immigration
Head of Noam party, set to lead new department for ‘Jewish identity,’ wants to change rules to limit right to immigrate; Liberman: His office will stand for ‘blood purity’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
MK Avi Maoz attends a discussion in the Knesset,on November 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 1:26 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 28: Netanyahu’s ‘mind-blowing’ extremist ministerial appointees
Editor David Horovitz on the homophobic anti-pluralistic MK tapped to oversee ‘Jewish identity’; health reporter Nathan Jeffay on promising COVID study and new med-tech
By ToI Staff
Noam MK Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:18 am
‘Insanity, unreal’: Netanyahu slammed over deal with anti-pluralistic, homophobic MK
Politicians from outgoing coalition say Likud chief’s agreement to put Avi Maoz in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity is a ‘slap in the face,’ could ‘plunge Israel into the abyss’
By Michael Bachner
MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)
November 27, 2022, 11:30 pm
Netanyahu puts extremist homophobic politician in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity
Presumed PM-elect signs coalition deal with Avi Maoz, who holds radical views on non-Orthodox Judaism, LGBT Israelis, Arabs and women
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the press after a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022, as Herzog consulted political leaders on who to task with trying to form a new government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 20, 2022, 5:35 pm
Separating from Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit and Noam now independent parties
After running in a technical alliance during the election, far-right parties officially split apart as Knesset activity set to begin
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Likud MK Amir Ohana votes at a Likud polling station during his parties primaries in Jerusalem on August 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 18, 2022, 8:47 pm
Gay Likud MK defends Netanyahu’s push for inclusion of anti-LGBT Noam party in bloc
Amir Ohana says he doesn’t agree with ultra-conservative stance of right-wing ally, but that it is a price he is willing to pay to see his party form a coalition
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2021, 11:17 pm
In bombshell recordings, Shaked calls Netanyahus ‘tyrants’ with ‘lust for power’
PM ‘must go,’ Yamina’s ex-justice minister says, but a compromise in which he’d serve 2nd in a rotation deal with Bennett is preferable to a ‘ridiculous coalition’ with the left
By ToI Staff
Left: Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021; Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2021, 4:30 pm
Netanyahu: I’ll let Bennett be PM first; Bennett: But you don’t have a majority
Likud leader again urges Yamina chief to commit to forming right-wing coalition, but Smotrich continues to rule out reliance on Ra’am and Sa’ar still won’t serve with Netanyahu
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Education Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 3, 2021, 10:57 am
Netanyahu said to back Bennett forming coalition in return for legal protections
PM reportedly held secret meeting with Yamina leader in bid to prevent him supporting ‘change bloc’; Netanyahu said seeking commitment to measures that could help cancel his trial
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Students at the Schechter Institutes in Jerusalem. (Nachshon Philipson)
July 5, 2015, 8:35 pm
A generation of persistence pays off for the Schechter Institutes
30 years on, Conservative Judaism’s academic center in Jerusalem celebrates its impact on Israeli Jewish pluralism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tzvi Graetz
January 29, 2013, 5:14 pm
Tzvi Graetz
I shook the hand that blessed Barack Obama
In the U.S., she’s a leading rabbi with a flourishing congregation. In Israel, she’s officially nothing.
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