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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Rachel Azaria

Ultra-Orthodox protesters vandalize an election poster of Jerusalem mayor candidate MK Rachel Azaria in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on July 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 9:40 am
Feminist campaign hits Jerusalem buses to compensate for defaced mayoral posters
After ultra-Orthodox vandalized her mayoral banners last summer, Rachel Azaria launches ‘I dream’ drive which envisions society without discrimination against women
By Stuart Winer
Culture Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference on the "Culture Loyalty Bill" at the Knesset, November 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)
November 26, 2018, 10:09 pm
Furious Regev bashes Liberman and Kahlon for blocking her culture loyalty bill
Culture minister accuses both of giving in to terror by not fully backing legislation that would pull funding from artists deemed disloyal, accuses them of working for dovish NGO
By Raoul Wootliff
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev attends a Culture, Sports and Education Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 26, 2018, 12:19 pm
Vote on culture ‘loyalty’ bill put off after Kulanu pulls support
Party leader Kahlon gives his MKs freedom to vote as they see fit on contentious legislation pushed by culture minister
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli artists burns works to protest the cultural loyalty bill in Tel Aviv on November 25, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 26, 2018, 1:44 am
Vote on culture loyalty bill set for delay as Kulanu party pulls support
Moshe Kahlon says he won’t enforce party discipline on Knesset vote for contentious legislation pushed by culture minister, after MKs balk at backing bill
By ToI Staff
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan (L) on February 25, 2018, outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
November 12, 2018, 1:31 am
Government postpones decision on controversial church lands bill
Sponsor of legislation, MK Rachel Azaria, said she hopes to reach a settlement with religious leaders in the coming weeks
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Protestors demonstrate outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 19, 2018, 9:21 pm
Churches urge Netanyahu to thwart bill restricting land sales
Armenian, Greek Orthodox and Catholic leaders accuse PM of failing to stick to commitment to withdraw legislation which they say aims to seize their property
By AFP and ToI Staff
Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 30, 2018, 7:53 pm
A series of withdrawals leave no women in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem mayoral races
As Rachel Azaria backs Ze’ev Elkin in capital and Zippi Brand Frank joins forces with Asaf Zamir in city that never sleeps, issues important to women likely to be shunted aside.
By ToI Staff
Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 26, 2018, 10:06 pm
Azaria pulls out of Jerusalem mayoral race, backs Elkin
Kulanu MK, the only woman candidate in the running, rejects accusations of ‘backroom deal,’ plans to stay in the Knesset
By ToI Staff
People participate in the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, under heavy security on August 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 2, 2018, 12:39 pm
3 of 7 Jerusalem mayoral candidates plan on attending pride parade
Azaria, Berkovitch and Havilio to march with LGBTQ community and its supporters; Elkin and Lion to stay away; ultra-Orthodox Deitsch won’t comment; Salman says he’d cancel it
By ToI Staff
Jerusalem deputy mayor and mayoral candidate Yossi Deitch seen before a meeting in Jerusalem on July 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 24, 2018, 11:02 pm
Ultra-Orthodox hopeful Deitch throws hat in ring for Jerusalem mayor
Deputy mayor joins six other candidates after gaining support of rabbis from Agudath Israel faction
By ToI Staff
Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 23, 2018, 9:38 am
Ultra-Orthodox vandals deface Jerusalem ads of female mayoral candidate
Posters for Rachel Azaria’s coexistence campaign ripped off of bus in capital; MK blames ‘fringe group’
By ToI Staff
Kulanu MK and Jerusalem mayoral candidate Rachel Azaria (Courtesy)
July 16, 2018, 8:19 am
Aiming to be Jerusalem’s first female mayor, MK sees thaw in religious tensions
Just 10 years ago, Rachel Azaria was fighting to have her face featured on Jerusalem bus ads; a decade on, former deputy mayor says her hometown in throes of change
By Marissa Newman
Crime (Illustrative image: iStock)
July 1, 2018, 2:33 pm
Don’t let Israel become a promised land of impunity for crooks and fraudsters
Israel’s law enforcement bodies are not cooperating with their foreign counterparts in tackling financial fraud. Are they ‘only’ spectacularly incompetent, or something even worse?
By Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz
Moshe Lion, candidate for the Jerusalem mayoral race, seen at a press conference in Jerusalem, July 22, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 1, 2018, 11:50 am
A would-be Jerusalem ‘unifier,’ Moshe Lion promises soccer fields for Arab kids
Mayoral candidate who lost to Nir Barkat last time also pledges to stem the outflow of young residents, and turn the capital into an ‘economic powerhouse’
By Marissa Newman
Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria at the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, held by the Israel Institute of Democracy, in Jerusalem, on June 19, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 25, 2018, 3:53 pm
Could Rachel Azaria’s candidacy pave way for ultra-Orthodox mayor in Jerusalem?
With surprise entry of Orthodox, pluralistic MK, the race to succeed Nir Barkat is more open than ever. What’s missing is an ultra-Orthodox candidate. That might now change
By David Sedley
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