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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 340

Religious Zionism Party

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party head MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 26, 2024, 12:47 pm
US said to nix plan to sanction Smotrich, Ben Gvir, but will keep blacklisting settlers
Source says Sullivan told Netanyahu sanctions on West Bank extremists will persist despite PM’s lobbying against them; Israeli official says far-right ministers won’t be targeted
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends a Lag B'Omer celebration in Safed, on May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 8:05 pm
Top religious Zionist rabbis call for scrapping ‘dangerous’ hostage deal
Clerics with sway over coalition’s hard-line flank argue risk posed by possible agreement trumps imperative to free captives; senior UTJ lawmaker Gafni takes opposite position
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 7:42 pm
As Netanyahu flies to DC, Israeli politicians seek to sway his agenda from afar
Right-wing MKs call on PM to emphasize fight against Iran, push back on sanctions against settlers in meeting with Biden; Lapid demands he announce support for hostage deal
By Sam Sokol
Otzma Yehudit party leader National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 12, 2024, 1:46 pm
Ben Gvir is preferred successor to Netanyahu among backers of PM’s current bloc — poll
Far-right Otzma Yehudit leader has support of 24% of respondents in newspaper survey, ahead of ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen at 14%, with Smotrich trailing third at 11%
By ToI Staff
A vehicle burns as settlers attack Civil Administration and Border Police personnel involved in demolishing the illegal West Bank outpost Tzur Harel, July 3, 2024 (Civil Administration)
July 3, 2024, 12:56 pm
Settlers attack security forces evacuating illegal outpost in West Bank
Residents of Tzur Harel throw stones, Molotov cocktails at Border Police after some 500 officers dispatched to raze site, reportedly a source of violent nationalist activity
By Jeremy Sharon
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 10:23 pm
Lapid says Netanyahu orchestrating attorney general’s ouster to revive overhaul
‘We will not participate in pretending that Israel is a democracy if it ceases to be so,’ opposition leader declares, pledging to ‘not rule out any step or action’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MKs Tally Gotliv, left, and Moshe Saada attend a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024; they both expressed opposition to the so-called "Rabbis Bill." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 10:28 pm
PM boots rebel MKs from committee, insists on urgent vote on jobs-for-rabbis law
Otzma Yehudit accuses Shas of making ‘political deal’ with Arabs to pass controversial bill; ultra-Orthodox party slams ‘lies’ and ‘blackmail,’ demands coalition partner’s support
By Sam Sokol
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee discusses a bill to expand the number of municipal rabbis across the country, June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 2:02 pm
Knesset panel pushes off vote on contentious bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
Likud MKs object to promoting law during wartime; with municipalities expected to shoulder part of the cost, mayors express outrage, demand funds go to help residents during war
By Sam Sokol
MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 3:21 pm
Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role
By Sam Sokol
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz attends a plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2024, 8:19 pm
Far-right leaders slam Gantz’s exit from government, but hail ‘big opportunity’
Ben Gvir claims the outgoing war cabinet minster’s centrist party ‘put a spoke in the wheels of the war machine’ in recent months
By Sam Sokol
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, on June 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 3, 2024, 9:30 pm
Far-right ministers accuse Netanyahu of ‘whitewashing’ hostage deal, hiding details
Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party relocates its Knesset faction meeting to avoid families of hostages; ‘it looks like he’s a coward,’ says relative
By Sam Sokol
MK Zvi Sukkot at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2024, 12:22 pm
Far-right coalition MK: ‘Not sure’ it is possible to bring back all Gaza hostages
Religious Zionism’s Zvi Sukkot says ‘everything’ must be done to free the captives, but not at the expense of significant harm to national security
By ToI Staff
Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock speaks during a prayer event for the IDF's success and the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, Gush Etzion, March 21, 2024. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
May 1, 2024, 12:18 pm
Far-right minister: Hostage deal throws war goals in trash to save only 22-33 hostages
In response, Lapid says Orit Strock’s ‘extremist’ government has ‘no right to exist’; Movement for Quality Government calls on Netanyahu to fire her
By Sam Sokol
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the media following a meeting of his Religious Zionism faction in the Knesset, April 30, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
April 30, 2024, 7:19 pm
Smotrich threatens to quit gov’t over hostage deal; Eisenkot slams far-right ‘blackmail’
Finance minister says he’s ‘ready to pay the political price’ to prevent ‘existential threat’ to Israel; Ben Gvir says he ‘warned’ Netanyahu of consequences of a ‘reckless deal’
By Sam Sokol
FILE: Then-Supreme Court judge Uri Shoham at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 2, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/pool)
March 17, 2024, 9:49 am
PM said to scrap vote on head for civil service panel amid coalition opposition
Shas and Religious Zionism said they’d vote against appointing retired judge Uri Shoham to chair Senior Appointments Advisory Committee, which vets candidates for top public roles
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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