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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 349

Oren Hazan

Shmuel Greenberg, left, speaks to supporters at his election headquarters during the second round of Municipal Elections, in Beit Shemesh, March 10, 2024. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
March 11, 2024, 1:34 pm
Ultra-Orthodox retake Beit Shemesh, former Haifa mayor Yona Yahav returns to office
46.1% of eligible voters cast ballots in run-off elections across the country; right-wing candidate Matan Dil wins in Rehovot, former MK Oren Hazan trounced in Ariel
By Sam Sokol
Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate Shmuel Greenberg casts his ballot in the second round of municipal elections, March 10, 2024. (Sam Sokol)
March 10, 2024, 3:34 pm
Voters go to polls across Israel in second round of municipal elections
Run-offs underway in Ariel, Beit Shemesh, Abu Ghosh, Haifa and 31 other cities and villages where no candidate managed to reach 40% in last month’s first round
By Sam Sokol
A woman votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 8, 2024, 8:18 am
Second round of municipal elections set for Sunday in 35 locales
Mayoral run-off votes to be held in those cities and towns where no candidate received 40%, including Haifa, Beit Shemesh, Ariel, Rehovot and Ramle
By Sam Sokol
A worker at the President's Residence prepares for the upcoming visit of US President Joe Biden on July 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2022, 12:40 am
Biden to forgo meet and greet with Israeli dignitaries at sweltering tarmac welcome
Officially, VIPs told ban due to scheduling issues and hot weather, but some speculate on effort to prevent repeat of shenanigans when Trump arrived in 2017
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Then-US vice president Joe Biden waving as he boards his plane at Ben Gurion Airport after a two-day visit in Israel on March 10, 2016. (Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv)
June 23, 2022, 1:45 pm
US officials said to ask Israel to shorten reception ceremony when Biden arrives
Reported request could be due to Biden’s age, weather conditions or an attempt to avoid repetition of 2017 incident in which a junior Israeli MK snapped a selfie with Trump
By ToI Staff
Then-Likud Knesset member Oren Hazan reacts during a Knesset plenary session, on November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 9, 2019, 8:18 pm
Oren Hazan sentenced to community service for 2014 assault
Controversial former Likud lawmaker declares himself vindicated, but judge lambastes his ‘bullying and law-breaking’ behavior
By ToI Staff
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
MK Oren Hazan (Likud) in a self-produced election parody video of the Spaghetti Western 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' in which he shoots dead MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad). (Facebook screenshot)
March 20, 2019, 12:37 am
Arab MK wants Oren Hazan charged for parody video killing
Balad Party leader Jamal Zahalka seethes after MK Oren Hazan emerges from a bubble bath to shoot him dead in an election video
By ToI Staff
Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)
February 19, 2019, 3:00 pm
Netanyahu calls Smotrich’s dad, upping pressure for far-right merger
PM also phones prominent national religious rabbis in continued effort to push Jewish Home to unite with extremist Otzma Yehudit and Yachad parties
By Jacob Magid
Betzalel Smotrich and Rafi Peretz are seen after agreeing to form a joint Jewish Home-National Union Knesset slate, February 14, 2019. (Courtesy)
February 18, 2019, 8:32 pm
Jewish Home rejects Netanyahu invite to discuss merger with far-right parties
Faction heads say they don’t take orders from PM, call on him to ‘set a personal example’ and team up with extremist Otzma Yehudit
By Alexander Fulbright
Likud MK Oren Hazan in Jerusalem on September 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 8, 2019, 12:36 am
Far-right party says bad-boy MK Oren Hazan seeking to join after Likud defeat
Otzma Yehudit says enfant terrible of Israeli politics has contacted it, trying to stay in Knesset after faring poorly in Likud primaries
By Michael Bachner
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
Likud MK Oren Hazan at a Knesset committee meeting on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
January 13, 2019, 10:05 pm
Police thwart nurse’s plot to assassinate Likud MK Oren Hazan
Healthcare worker from Nazareth arrested last month after his mother learned of his plans and turned him in
By ToI Staff
Culture Minister Miri Regev speaks at the annual Likudiada event in Eilat on January 10, 2018. (Flash90)
January 11, 2019, 9:19 pm
At Likud festival, Netanyahu allies rip investigators probing him for corruption
Culture Minister Regev claims associates of attorney general are pushing him to announce his intention to indict PM ahead of elections
By ToI Staff
MK Pnina Tamano-Shata attends a Knesset committee meeting on July 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2018, 10:47 pm
Likud MK calls Ethiopian lawmaker a ‘token immigrant’
‘I’m a proud Israeli, you bastard,’ Yesh Atid’s Pnina Tamano-Shata fires back at scandal-prone Oren Hazan
By ToI Staff
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