Religious Zionism Party

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during memorial ceremony marking 26 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, on October 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

October 18, 2021, 10:40 pm

Lapid: Rabin assassin’s ‘ideological heirs’ are serving in Knesset today

At parliament memorial for slain PM, FM swipes at Netanyahu, who brokered the deal that made a Kahanist an MK; opposition chair responds that left is abusing Rabin’s memory

By TOI staff

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rotman is seen during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 13, 2021, 8:08 pm

Coalition fells opposition’s immigration legislation in preliminary vote

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rotman had been negotiating with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked over the bill, but they failed to reach agreement

By TOI staff

Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich addresses a Knesset plenum session on the state budget on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

October 13, 2021, 6:58 pm

Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have ‘finished the job,’ thrown out Arabs

Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman decries the ‘fascist filth’ to which she says Arabs are regularly subjected

By Amy Spiro

Labor MK Efrat Rayten (left) and Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman. (Flash90)

August 4, 2021, 7:07 pm

No Likud rep as coalition, opposition MKs elected to judicial selection panel

Labor’s Efrat Rayten and Simcha Rothman of Religious Zionism chosen to serve as Knesset representatives on the powerful committee

By TOI staff

MK David Bitan at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 21, 2021, 4:41 pm

Likud MK suspended from managing Knesset plenum after apparently fudging vote

Speaker to file ethics complaint against David Bitan after fellow opposition lawmaker Ben Gvir’s ballot left out of final count for bill, despite apparently voting in favor

By TOI staff

The illegal settlement outpost of Evyatar, in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

June 27, 2021, 2:39 pm

‘Bring tents’: Evyatar activists try to stop razing of illegal West Bank outpost

Opposition MKs visit illegal settlement site set to be demolished within days, call on government to intervene and prevent evacuation order

By TOI staff

A structure is demolished at the Oz Zion illegal outpost north of Jerusalem, June 23, 2021 (video screenshot)

June 23, 2021, 11:36 am

7 arrested as Border Police demolish illegal West Bank Jewish outpost

Several people at Oz Zion reported to hurl objects at forces and attempt to barricade themselves inside a building

By TOI staff

Head of the Religious Zionism Party MK Bezalel Smotrich gives a press statement at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Olivier FItoussi/Flash90)

June 22, 2021, 5:22 pm

Far-right MKs heckled, harassed by angry protesters in Sheikh Jarrah

‘Why are you here? You’re garbage, you’re a cockroach,’ Palestinian resident of the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood shouts at Religious Zionism party leader Smotrich

By TOI staff

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting of his Yesh Atid party at the Knesset, on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

June 22, 2021, 11:41 am

Lapid confident West Bank outpost Evyatar to be razed

FM says illegality of outpost, which has sparked deadly clashes between the army and local Palestinians, is ‘not a question of right or left’

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Screen capture from video of MKs holding up potraits of terror victims during a a protest against the confirmation of the new government, June 13, 2021. (YouTube)

June 15, 2021, 1:29 pm

Terror victims’ grandfather slams far-right MKs for using their pics in protest

Chaim Fogel, who lost son, daughter-in-law, 3 grandchildren in 2011 attack, says family stays out of political disputes, calls use of photos to disrupt Bennett speech ‘outrageous’

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Likud MK David Bitan (L) and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich (R). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 14, 2021, 6:18 pm

Likud MK says far-right Smotrich responsible for Netanyahu’s ouster

David Bitan says party planned to have Ra’am abstain from vote, but Religious Zionism head refused any cooperation with Islamist faction

By TOI staff

Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

June 6, 2021, 12:25 am

Gantz indicates he’ll demand cancellation of Jerusalem right-wing parade

Defense minister says he will oppose holding highly charged event on Thursday if it requires extraordinary security measures and endangers public order

By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff

Young Jewish men dance with Israeli flags near Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

June 5, 2021, 5:11 pm

PM’s opponents warn J’lem march a bid to thwart coalition; Hamas issues threat

Heads of Labor, Meretz, Joint List warn of potential dire consequences, Yesh Atid MK says parade could ’ignite region’; Hamas threatens potential ‘consequences’

By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff

June 4, 2021, 7:01 pm

Nationalist groups reschedule controversial Jerusalem march scuttled by rockets

Unconfirmed reports say organizers have police permission for parade via Muslim Quarter on Thursday, amid warnings event could reignite violence that engulfed region last month

By TOI staff

Ayelet Shaked and Bezalel Smotrich visit at a protest tent of settler leaders, outside the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem, February 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 26, 2021, 7:19 pm

Yamina, Religious Zionism trade blame for lack of right-wing government

Shaked doesn’t rule out prospect of forming coalition with ‘change bloc’ after Smotrich accuses Yamina of pretending to drop negotiations with Netanyahu’s rivals

By TOI staff