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MK Mansour Abbas (left) in the Knesset, July 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); MK Yoav Segalovitz (right) speaks at a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, June 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 13, 2026, 3:25 pm
Ra’am’s Abbas, former Yesh Atid MK Segalovitz confirm ongoing talks on Knesset run
Negotiations come as Islamist party seeks to shed its religious image; far-right Otzma Yehudit party claims Abbas using the move to turn Negev and Galilee into ‘Islamic territory’
By Sam Sokol
Deputy Minister Almog Cohen attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions challenging the UNRWA laws passed by the Knesset, August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 12, 2026, 1:15 pm
Former Otzma Yehudit MK to run in Likud primary after Netanyahu opens door
PM praises far-right Almog Cohen as a ‘warrior,’ confirms waiving tenure requirements to allow newly minted Likud member to run; Olympic medalist Oren Smadja joins Erdan’s party
By Sam Sokol
A woman walks near Tzur Misgavi, an illegal outpost in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, November 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 31, 2026, 12:06 pm
God, land and politics: As Israel heads to elections, where do religious Israelis stand?
Bombastic, hardline politicians have become the face of the Religious Zionist community, but recent polling shows that while core beliefs are unchanging, the group is far from a monolith
By Rossella Tercatin
Minister of Heritage Amichay Eliyahu attends a unity conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 22, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2026, 4:04 pm
Otzma Yehudit minister suggests far-right party may woo Shas voters
Comments by Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu follow Haredi party’s refusal to pledge support for another Netanyahu-led coalition until draft exemption law is passed
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students at Bar Ilan University, November 21, 2024 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 10, 2026, 9:46 am
Top universities come out against legislation to expand gender segregation in academia
Tel Aviv University head: ‘Real, tangible danger’; Hebrew University says legislation would cause ‘direct harm to academic freedom’; Bar Ilan says quality of research would be harmed
By ToI Staff
Minister of Heritage Amichay Eliyahu (left) attends a unity conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 22, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Nitzan Alon attends the Herzliya Conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, July 1, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 2, 2026, 2:37 pm
Far-right minister says IDF hostage point man ‘to blame’ for Oct. 7 abductions, killings
Amichay Eliyahu leads coalition backlash against Nitzan Alon for pushing back after Smotrich claimed credit for captives’ return, says top general would have enabled Hamas to threaten Israel again
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
View of a seaside mosque in Jaffa, February 15, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
July 1, 2026, 7:57 pm
Knesset advances far-right MK’s bill to lower volume of mosque calls to prayer
Otzma Yehudit’s Zvika Fogel says it’s ‘not a political issue’ but one of equal law enforcement, though Arab lawmakers point to lack of effort to curb violent crime in minority community
By Ariela Karmel
Almog Cohen, of the Otzma Yehudit party, disrupts an event about settler violence, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 2, 2026, 7:48 pm
Coalition MKs disrupt Knesset event on violence against Palestinians, threaten attendees
Lawmakers steal food, assail slain hostage’s daughter-in-law, amid discussion of unchecked settler attacks; MK tells ‘terrorist’ colleagues they’ll be expelled from country
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speaks with United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni in the Knesset, December 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2026, 11:10 pm
Plurality of far-right voters oppose government with ultra-Orthodox parties — poll
Likud is only Zionist party with majority of supporters in favor of coalition with ultra-Orthodox factions; 60% of Otzma Yehudit voters and 40% of Religious Zionism voters against idea
By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff
Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
April 15, 2026, 7:02 pm
Why is Ben Gvir rising in the polls while Smotrich can’t keep his head above water?
The hard-right parties ran together in 2022, but Otzma Yehudit has now climbed to around 10 seats in surveys, while Religious Zionism can’t clear the electoral threshold
By Sam Sokol
Otzman Yehudit MK Zvika Fogel leads a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset, March 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2026, 5:00 pm
Far-right MK apologizes, deletes post criticizing Trump over Iran war
After telling US president ‘don’t quack,’ Otzma Yehudit’s Zvika Fogel says he did not intend to ‘show any disrespect’; Netanyahu said to tell lawmakers to ‘choose your words carefully’
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for terrorists in the Knesset, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 31, 2026, 12:38 am
Knesset passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terror
Backed by Netanyahu, measure mandates hanging and bars right to appeal, despite opposition from security, legal officials; rights groups, opposition parties to petition High Court to cancel it
By Ariela Karmel, Reuters and Jeremy Sharon
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Knesset National Security Committee chair MK Zvika Fogel at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, March 24, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 24, 2026, 11:53 pm
MKs advance death penalty for terrorists bill for final Knesset plenum votes
Knesset National Security Committee approves controversial bill after PMO insisted on several changes and more than 2,000 revisions were filed by opposition lawmakers
By Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, on December 7, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
January 9, 2026, 8:17 am
Leading Religious Zionist rabbi: Extremist settler violence must be stopped from the pulpit
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges facing his community and the country as a whole
By Rossella Tercatin
Yariv Ben-Eliezer, the grandson of David Ben-Gurion, speaks at a memorial for his grandfather in Sde Boker on November 26, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
November 26, 2025, 3:00 pm
Ben-Gurion’s grandson: Presence of ‘Kahanist’ minister at memorial ‘disrespectful’
In off-the-cuff remarks, Yariv Ben-Eliezer says government should not have sent Otzma Yehudit’s Yitzhak Wasserlauf to annual state ceremony for his grandfather
By ToI Staff
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