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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

Nurit Koren

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Likud MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and MK David Bitan, right of Netanyahu, after the passage of the nation-state law at the Knesset on July 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Olivier Fitoussi)
February 6, 2019, 10:09 pm
Farewell Oren Hazan: Scandal-prone MK and others set to miss out on next Knesset
Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick and Ayoub Kara, a minister and the only Druze in Likud’s current slate, also score too low in primaries to make it back
By Michael Bachner
Israel Bar Association former chairman Efi Nave is seen at a Tel Aviv court on January 16, 2019. (Koko/Pool/Flash90)
January 18, 2019, 5:33 pm
Suspicions former top lawyer helped intern pass bar exam in exchange for sex
Police question woman as witness over whether scandal-plagued Efi Nave also helped her find a job in return for sex; intern said to deny she received benefits from relationship
By ToI Staff
A worker of the Israel State Archives looks at classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2018, 10:41 pm
Adoption files to be opened in lost Yemenite children affair
Under new law, relatives who think their family members were kidnapped by the state can ask a senior social worker to check national records
By ToI Staff
Yaron Atias and his wife Mazal Dadon Atias pictured with their children in September 2015. (Facebook)
May 22, 2018, 12:30 pm
Female lawmakers boycott MK’s speech after he invites divorce refuser to Knesset
Ten MKs walk out of Yehudah Glick’s address to protest his meeting with Yaron Atias, subject of a shunning order from a rabbinical court
By Sue Surkes
Outgoing Supreme Court President, Miriam Naor (C-R), and incoming President Esther Hayut (C-L) at the Supreme Court during Naor's last ruling and retirement ceremony, in Jerusalem, on October 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2018, 5:53 am
A wayward judge may be the biggest blow to public trust in Netanyahu probe
Bombshell report of outrageous correspondence between judge and investigator could do more damage to the rule of law than years of attacks by politicians
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)
February 20, 2018, 9:59 am
Knesset okays law allowing for exhuming graves of Yemenite children
Teary Likud lawmaker hails passage, says will help families whose loved ones were ‘simply erased from their lives’
By Marissa Newman
Likud MK Nurit Koren leads an event on the Yemenite Children Affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 12, 2018, 2:45 pm
Bill that allows exhuming lost Yemenite children okayed for final vote
Families reach agreement with government to have a doctor present on their behalf when graves are opened for genetic testing of remains
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)
October 31, 2017, 8:57 pm
MKs vote to allow exhuming remains of Yemenite children presumed dead
Proposal would permit families to seek court approval to submit genetic material for testing
By Marissa Newman
Hundreds of Israelis rally for government recognition of the so-called missing Yemenite children affair in Tel Aviv on September 25, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)
September 25, 2017, 10:44 pm
Hundreds rally for recognition of alleged Yemenite children kidnappings
Elderly mothers of children who disappeared are among traffic-blocking protesters in Tel Aviv; Likud MK who oversaw efforts to declassify documents on affair heckled
By Marissa Newman
Israeli lawmakers and South African Jewish leaders meet with ANC party official and African Union chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, center, in Johannesburg on August 14, 2017. (Embassy of Israel in South Africa)
August 25, 2017, 2:07 pm
First-ever delegation of MKs visits South Africa
Lawmakers meet with politicians from the ruling and opposition parties, visit South African Jewish communities
By ToI Staff
MK Oren Hazan reacts at a plenum session in the assembly hall of Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2017, 12:44 pm
Likud MKs fume over insulted intelligence
Zionist Union’s Mickey Rosenthal comes under fire for mocking the IQs of the bottom third of the ruling party’s slate
By Jacob Magid
A nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants in the 1950s (Brauner Teddy/GPO)
December 29, 2016, 4:17 pm
New data on missing Yemenite children shows gross negligence, but not state-sponsored kidnappings
Release of over 400,000 documents reveals widespread indifference to families’ plight, but does not vindicate horrifying, long-held conspiracy theories
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference inaugurating the State archive on the "Yemenite Children Affair," now open to the public online, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 28, 2016. Alongside him is state archivist Yaakov Lozowick. Families from Yemenite and North African Jewish communities maintain the Israeli government systematically kidnapped their children from Israeli hospitals and put them up for adoption during the immigration wave in the 1950s. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
December 28, 2016, 10:10 am
Israel opens database with 400,000 declassified documents on Yemenite Children Affair
Authorities hope to finally bring closure to families of missing children allegedly kidnapped from hospitals and given for adoption; families want government to take responsibility
By ToI Staff
A kangaroo jill and her joey (public domain, Tom Lind via Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2016, 12:10 am
MKs jump to join all-expenses-paid trip to save the kangaroos
14 lawmakers fall for TV sting, sign up for excursion at busiest time of year, offered by an organization that does not exist
By ToI Staff
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