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Orly Levy-Abekasis

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 18, 2022, 4:35 pm
Pressure mounts on Netanyahu over dearth of women on Likud slate
Party officials publish protest letter, while MK Miri Regev calls for the inclusion of ‘strong, suitable’ female candidates
By Ash Obel
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a discussion and a vote on the minimum wage at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2022, 9:27 pm
In another blow to coalition, Knesset advances opposition bills to hike minimum wage
Government’s Ra’am party breaks ranks to vote in favor of preliminary legislation from opposition’s Joint List, as imperiled coalition appears headed for a collapse
By ToI Staff
Labor MK Emilie Moatti walks with flowers at the Knesset on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 4, 2021, 11:15 pm
Final approval of 2022 budget delayed after coalition MK flubs vote
Labor’s Emilie Moatti apologizes for ending perfect run, blames error on lack of sleep after all-night session; Bennett: Israel ‘will enter a different era’ once 2022 budget passes
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to right-wing opposition party members a day after a new government was sworn in, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
August 12, 2021, 11:40 am
‘He cares about himself, not Likud’: Netanyahu attacked by senior party members
Ex-ministers and MKs slam former PM for not relinquishing leadership, dooming them to opposition; Miri Regev says time for party to move away from Ashkenazi men as leaders
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Screen capture from video of Nail Zoabi. (YouTube)
February 4, 2021, 6:46 pm
Netanyahu recruits first-ever Muslim to Likud list, also adds firebrand novelist
School principal Nail Zoabi placed in low 39th slot, but party says Norwegian Law will ensure he gets Knesset seat; Galit Distal Atbaryan given No. 10 slot, party files its slate
By Raoul Wootliff
An election campaign billboard of Tnufa party leader Ofer Shelah, in Tel Aviv on January 17, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 3, 2021, 4:02 pm
After a year of political betrayals, mistrust puts party mergers on hold
Israel’s electoral system facilitates infidelity by letting blocs break up easily; with big parties unable to trust those hitching a ride, smaller factions may be left in the cold
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Rafi Peretz (right) with Zeev Elkin in the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 2, 2020, 1:21 pm
3 ministers enter quarantine after minister Rafi Peretz tests positive for virus
Zeev Elkin, Orly Levy-Abekasis and Yaakov Avitan go into isolation as a result of contact with Jerusalem affairs minister, who announced diagnosis on Saturday evening
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A prostitute on a street in south Tel Aviv on January 1, 2013. (Flash90)
July 10, 2020, 1:25 pm
Seeking prostitution services is now illegal in Israel
First-time offenders will be fined NIS 2,000 ($530), with the sum doubled for repeat offenses within three years, as new law comes into effect
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and then-Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, at the first meeting of the 35th Government, in the Knesset on May 17, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
May 18, 2020, 6:24 am
Coalition flaw isn’t all the new ministries, but the ones that were ripped apart
Israeli prime ministers have always invented extra cabinet posts to help stabilize coalitions, but rarely by slicing vital agencies or halving ministers’ terms
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Labour-Gesher party co-chairwoman Orly Levy-Abekasis at a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 11, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )
May 14, 2020, 10:17 am
Gesher’s Levy-Abekasis joins coalition, to head newly created ministry
Politician who broke ranks with dovish allies will lead Community Empowerment and Advancement Ministry, also pledges to back Netanyahu on West Bank annexation
By ToI Staff
Chairman of the Labor party Amir Peretz during a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 22, 2020, 9:28 pm
After staking mustache on not joining Netanyahu, Peretz defends doing so anyway
Labor chief explains he wants to influence national policy, cites socio-economic crisis: ‘I could not stand to the side’
By Raoul Wootliff
Labour-Gesher party co-chairwoman Orly Levy-Abekasis at a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 11, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )
April 12, 2020, 2:41 pm
Joining right, Levy-Abekasis says Netanyahu should form government
Gesher MK reverses previous position of not supporting any candidate, includes herself in PM’s bloc of right-wing parties; Meretz MKs accuse her of stealing left-wing votes
By Raoul Wootliff
Gesher head Orly Levy-Abekasis (left), with Labor leader Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv on election night, March 2, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 27, 2020, 4:25 pm
Labor, Gesher said set to join Gantz in gov’t; Liberman allies say ‘no chance’
Israel Resilience leader says ‘at peace’ with decision, no other way during this time of national emergency without going to 4th elections; critics call his behavior ‘amateurish’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Blue and White party member Omer Yankelevich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 17, 2020, 11:36 pm
Another Blue and White MK said to oppose minority government
Omer Yankelevich tells leaders she’s against coalition reliant on Joint List, joining at least two other party members; officials say she’ll adhere to instructions regardless
By ToI Staff
MK Orly Levy-Abekasis at a Knesset House Committee meeting, March 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 17, 2020, 6:11 pm
Renegade MK files breakaway request from Labor-Meretz after U-turn on Joint List
Orly Levy-Abekasis asks to be deemed a separate faction, days after walking back support for minority government backed by the left-wing slate she ran with
By Jacob Magid
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