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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Opposition

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, July 26, 2024. (GPO); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz at a press conference at the Knesset on July 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week, at Tel Aviv University, June 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 10, 2024, 10:44 am
Parties opposing Netanyahu would win Knesset majority without Arab parties – poll
Though Channel 12 finds Likud would be largest party, opposition bloc could easily form coalition; former PM Bennett seen as most suitable premier candidate
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
July 10, 2023, 1:40 pm
‘We’re tearing the country apart’: Some in cabinet uneasy with renewed overhaul blitz
Far-right takes Netanyahu captive, tells him future of right-wing depends on passing ‘reasonableness’ law; anonymous minister voices misgivings about bashing of judicial officials
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Sitting from left to right: Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, outgoing Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and outgoing Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 12, 2022, 9:58 pm
Gantz, Michaeli appear to balk at lining up behind Lapid in opposition
Outgoing defense minister questions Yesh Atid chair’s appearance at protest, while outgoing transportation minister declines to say who is leading fight against incoming coalition
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Israel's security cabinet meets to discuss the Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement, October 12, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
November 11, 2022, 3:04 pm
Outgoing coalition heads to meet Tuesday in bid to close ranks after election loss
Lapid seeks united opposition despite bad blood with partners following failed bid to retain power; Netanyahu set to receive mandate to form coalition on Sunday
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks in the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 10, 2022, 12:26 pm
Lapid urges united opposition in face of emerging coalition’s ‘madness’
Outgoing PM urges allied parties to work together to ‘defend Israeli democracy,’ tells them to learn about cooperation from the united front presented by ‘toxic’ Netanyahu-led bloc
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 7, 2022, 11:09 am
Poll: Most Israelis think social tensions worse since Bennett came to power
Less than a third of respondents say they would vote for the same party they supported in the March 2021 elections, survey finds
By Tobias Siegal
Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Menahem Kahana/AFP; Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 16, 2022, 11:12 pm
Netanyahu accuses Bennett of ‘gambling with lives’ as PM defends Ra’am partnership
‘His vision was, how can we – Israeli citizens – get along,’ premier says of Mansour Abbas, accusing Likud chair of treating Islamist party leader like a ‘mistress’ when he was PM
By Tobias Siegal
Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 9, 2022, 4:35 pm
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tests positive for COVID
Former prime minister feeling well; corruption trial likely to be delayed
By ToI Staff
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during a plenum session on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 2, 2021, 10:30 pm
Bashing Bennett, Netanyahu says Biden will thwart Israeli attack on Iran
Opposition leader says ‘no surprises policy,’ which he also pursued, will lead to US administration leaking info to media outlets in efforts to circumvent Jewish state
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Israelis protest against corruption, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 3, 2018, 7:17 pm
Right-left rift tops ethnic tensions as biggest source of polarization in Israel
Poll shows most Israelis see the divide between political camps as the chief societal rupture; finds how most view corruption depends on how they voted
By Raoul Wootliff
A scuffle between Knesset members, at a plenum session at the Israeli parliament on November 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 19, 2018, 10:50 pm
Chaos in Knesset as fragile coalition loses first votes since elections averted
Reduced to single-seat majority, coalition boycotts no-confidence motions; opposition trick shoots down law bill, causing all further votes to be postponed
By Michael Bachner
A man reads the newspaper at a cafe at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 12, 2017, 11:16 am
Poll: 45% of Israelis believe country’s democracy in ‘serious danger’
Israelis are most wary of politicians, media and rabbinate; opposition seen as ‘weak’ by 81% of its own constituents; 79% of secular Jews say religious ‘gradually taking control’
By Marissa Newman
Newly elected head of the Israeli Labor party Avi Gabbay (R) with former leader Isaac Herzog on July 12, 2017. (FLASH90)
July 12, 2017, 2:40 pm
Herzog to remain opposition leader in Gabbay’s stead
New Labor chief, sworn in Wednesday, is not a Knesset member and therefore needed a substitute to helm opposition in parliament
By Marissa Newman
Newly elected Labor leader Avi Gabbay addresses supporters in Tel Aviv after winning the party's leadership primaries on July 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
July 10, 2017, 11:28 pm
Gabbay is the new Labor chief, but can’t be opposition leader
He is not a sitting MK, so the former Kulanu minister must appoint a replacement lawmaker to helm the opposition; he’ll be largely sidelined until elections, set for 2019
By Marissa Newman
Economics and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset plenum, March 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 30, 2016, 11:52 am
Lawmakers to take crack at Bennett in first-ever Knesset Q&A session
In new parliamentary format, opposition free to grill education minister for an hour; other ministers, and PM, to follow
By Marissa Newman
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