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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 338

Revital Swid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein arrive for a joint event of the Knesset and the US Congress, celebrating 50 years since Jerusalem's reunification, at the Chagall state hall in the Knesset, on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
January 30, 2020, 8:22 am
Knesset speaker vows to ‘fast-track’ any vote on West Bank annexation
Despite US envoy saying it may take time before move can go ahead, Edelstein tells Netanyahu Israel must seize opportunity following Trump plan
By ToI Staff
Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 9, 2019, 10:07 pm
Opposition raps Netanyahu’s Iran briefing as ‘selling out security’ for politics
Blue and White leaders tear into PM for revealing alleged nuke site eight days before election; PMO officials say move was urged by national security officials
By Raphael Ahren
Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Ballot boxes filled with votes from nationwide municipal elections are brought to the Central Election Committee headquarters for counting, October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 29, 2018, 11:39 am
Secretive crackdown on fake profiles shows Israel wide open to election meddling
On eve of local vote, national cyber unit, part of Netanyahu’s office, reveals it has asked Facebook to close thousands of accounts used to spread false info about candidates
By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative image of 'offline' computer screens. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
July 20, 2018, 11:47 am
How Israel nearly destroyed freedom of speech online, without even knowing it
An effort to end Palestinian incitement on social media morphed into a bill that would have granted the state the most extensive internet censorship powers in the Western world
By Raoul Wootliff
A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)
July 18, 2018, 1:33 pm
Unwitting Israeli MKs almost pass law allowing sweeping internet censorship
Bill that would have given state power to block content on any website stymied by Netanyahu hours before final vote, after Times of Israel queries MKs about its drastic provisions
By Raoul Wootliff
This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)
July 15, 2018, 3:50 pm
Law clamping down on Facebook ‘incitement’ okayed for final vote
Critics say legislation, meant to protect national security, can be used to limit freedom of expression ‘against almost anything you can imagine’
By Raoul Wootliff
Yaron Atias and his wife Mazal Dadon Atias pictured with their children in September 2015. (Facebook)
May 22, 2018, 12:30 pm
Female lawmakers boycott MK’s speech after he invites divorce refuser to Knesset
Ten MKs walk out of Yehudah Glick’s address to protest his meeting with Yaron Atias, subject of a shunning order from a rabbinical court
By Sue Surkes
Ofir Akunis in Jerusalem on March 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
March 6, 2018, 10:26 pm
Marking women’s day, minister tells female MKs to ‘quit whining’
Ofir Akunis sparks backlash from lawmakers for urging women to shed ‘old-fashioned’ perceptions and learn from US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley
By Tamar Pileggi
Likud MK Oren Hazan, center, in Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 31, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 31, 2018, 11:48 pm
Banned for insulting his peers, Likud MK calls Knesset speaker ‘Stalin’
Oren Hazan uses his last address to plenum before 6-month expulsion to attack Yuli Edelstein, a former prisoner of Zion
By Stuart Winer
President Reuven Rivlin and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked stand alongside incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut during her swearing in ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 8, 2018, 4:12 pm
Five of 25 Supreme Court justice candidates are women
With only 4 women among current 16 judges, opposition lawmaker calls on justice minister, appointments committee to choose a woman for one of two vacant posts
By Sue Surkes
Police outside the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramla, which has a special Torah study jail program, on February 15, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 22, 2017, 7:49 pm
Jailed divorce-refusers stand to lose religious benefits
New law allows rabbinical courts to sanction inmates, barring them from religious studies program and forcing them to wear regular uniforms
By Marissa Newman
An anatomical chart posted on Facebook by Gazan Zahran Barbah on October 8, 2015, showing which parts of the body to aim for when stabbing a victim. (Courtesy of MEMRI)
July 20, 2016, 6:19 pm
Bill cracking down on social media incitement passes initial reading
Legislation would impose heavy fines on Facebook, Twitter and others for failing to remove inflammatory posts within 48 hours
By Haviv Rettig Gur and Stuart Winer
Illustrative: A Gazan man looking at a pro-Palestinian post on Facebook on April 7, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)
July 7, 2016, 6:49 am
As Israel goes after ‘terror-enabling’ Facebook, new bills may miss the mark
Israel says online Palestinian incitement leads to terror attacks, slams social media platform as unresponsive, but legal experts call proposed laws to tackle the issue ‘clumsy,’ ‘scary’
By Marissa Newman
File: Women protesting sexual harasment. Flash 90
May 31, 2016, 10:15 pm
Nearly 90% of female MKs say they’ve been sexually harassed
Lawmakers interviewed for Channel 2 open up on grim experiences and say problem exists even within Knesset
By Daniel Douek
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