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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech to announce the date of the UK's next general election, to be held on July 4, at 10 Downing Street in central London, on May 22, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 9:28 pm
British PM Sunak calls general elections for July 4; polls predict defeat
Governing Conservatives widely expected to lose to Keir Starmer’s Labour, though Sunak vows to ‘fight for every vote’
By Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
March 10, 2024, 7:23 pm
Citing war, petitioners seek to force PM to reveal his health status, succession plan
Survivors of massacre, MK and others turn to High Court, say Netanyahu hasn’t been transparent about his well-being, allege he’s shown worrying signs, including ‘drooping eyelids’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2023, 6:49 pm
High Court calls PM recusal law ‘clearly personal,’ indicates it may intervene
Setting up potential showdown, justices imply they may delay application of law that stops court removing PM; Netanyahu’s lawyer: Ouster by unelected official would be unthinkable
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 23, 2023, 11:42 am
Netanyahu underwent surgery to have pacemaker fitted. Here’s why, and what it will do
Premier has small battery-powered cardiac pacing device implanted to prevent heart from beating too slowly; PM’s trips to Turkey, Cyprus are postponed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)
April 24, 2023, 11:40 pm
Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders
Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offers fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old Shaare Zedek building
By Jessica Steinberg
Art teacher Sagar Kambli paints a picture of new Conservative Party leader and incoming British prime minister Rishi Sunak, in Mumbai on October 25, 2022. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)
October 25, 2022, 10:57 pm
‘Full circle’: New UK prime minister’s heritage a point of pride for Indians
Residents of New Delhi welcome accession of Rishi Sunak as triumph over Britain’s long colonial rule of India: ‘The wheel of fortune has turned completely’
By Sean GLEESON and Archana THIYAGARAJAN
Zalman Shazar, Golda Meir, David Ben Gurion and Giora Josephtal at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on April 8, 1959. (Hans Pinn/GPO)
September 7, 2022, 2:14 am
Biography revisits the life of Golda Meir, the anti-feminist feminist leader
Author Pnina Lahav’s ‘The Only Woman in the Room’ examines the career of Israel’s fourth prime minister by exploring how being a woman shaped — or twisted — her path
By Amy Spiro
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to deliver a statement announcing he won't run in the next elections, at the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
June 29, 2022, 10:01 pm
Bennett announces he won’t run in next elections, hands Yamina leadership to Shaked
In emotional speech, outgoing prime minister lauds his government’s achievements, calls for national unity, says he will ‘remain a loyal soldier of this country’
By Jeremy Sharon
From left to right: IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a military drill in northern Israel on November 16, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
June 17, 2022, 12:34 pm
Bennett said seeking to interview candidates for IDF head, Gantz reluctant
Defense chief reportedly fears taking a backseat to PM in process traditionally assigned to minister; he is scheduled to interview candidates in coming days
By ToI Staff
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a party meeting at the Knesset, on May 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2022, 1:46 am
Netanyahu-led opposition bloc gains ground with voters, nearing majority, poll finds
Survey gives bloc led by ex-PM 59 seats, to current coalition’s 55, with mainly Arab Joint List holding balance; most voters think government will collapse within 6 months
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) during a vote on a bill limiting prime ministers to eight years in office, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2021, 10:37 pm
Knesset passes first reading of bill to limit PM’s term to 8 years
Coalition legislation wins vote 66-49, with opposition Joint List lending support; justice minister bemoans ‘harm’ of prolonged rule
By Raoul Wootliff
Sitting from left to right: Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, as Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin walk past after a special Knesset plenum session to approve the new government, June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
November 21, 2021, 7:39 pm
Government okays bill setting term limits for PMs, aims for Knesset vote Monday
Proposal limiting a premier to 8 years in office backed by coalition; wouldn’t apply retroactively to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (right). (Flash90)
November 15, 2021, 5:55 pm
Netanyahu slams term limit bill as ‘Iranian’; Sa’ar: He once agreed to pass it
Opposition leader rails against proposal to limit premier’s tenure to 8 years; Justice minister: Netanyahu begged me to join his coalition in return for introducing the same law
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar in the Knesset, on June 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 14, 2021, 6:59 pm
Ministers approve bill setting term limits for prime ministers
Proposal limiting a premier to 8 years in office unanimously backed by committee; if passed by Knesset, wouldn’t apply retroactively to Netanyahu
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks with Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar in the Knesset on June 16, 2021. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
November 14, 2021, 11:28 am
Ministers set to okay term limits for PM; Sa’ar also seeks ban on indicted MKs
Likud MK says party could support the term-limit bill provided it isn’t retroactive and thus can’t apply to Netanyahu
By Raoul Wootliff
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