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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Ron Kobi

Ron Cobi, a former mayor of Tiberias and a candidate for the job, stands atop a hill overlooking his city in Israel on August 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2023, 10:42 am
Local elections turn placid Tiberias into unlikely front in Israel’s societal clash
Haredi and secularist extremism, as well as the alleged involvement of a former politician with a criminal record, are muddying the lakeside city’s political waters
By Canaan Lidor
Screen capture from video of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri denying that he had broken coronavirus lockdown travel restrictions on Yom Kippur, October 6, 2020. (Twitter)
October 6, 2020, 5:14 pm
Interior minister scrambles to dispel ‘slander’ he broke travel lockdown
Ayreh Deri says ‘a liar’ is telling the media he prayed in Tiberias on Yom Kippur, insists he was in Jerusalem; former mayor claims unnamed ‘senior minister’ was in northern city
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias seen outside Tiberias municipality building in northern Israel, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 17, 2020, 11:16 am
High Court approves Tiberias mayor’s ouster over failure to pass budget
Northern city to be run by Interior Ministry-appointed city council for next three years until new election called
By ToI Staff
Tiberias mayor Ron Kobi speaks in front of the new line of Saturday public transportation in the northern city on February 9, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)
January 13, 2020, 9:14 pm
Firebrand Tiberias mayor booted from post over failure to pass budget
Interior Ministry appoints new city council that will run northern town for next three years before new election called
By ToI Staff
Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias, seen outside the city's municipality building, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
October 25, 2019, 4:11 am
Unknown assailants attack controversial Tiberias mayor on city street
Police detain a suspect for assaulting Ron Cobi, who has drawn ire of ultra-Orthodox community for easing Shabbat restrictions
By ToI Staff
File: Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a concert featuring Haredi singer Motti Steinmetz, in a show where men and women in the audience sat separately, in the northern Israeli city of Afula on August 14, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
August 14, 2019, 11:31 pm
Too late: High Court bars gender-segregated concert, when it’s almost over
Ultra-Orthodox officials celebrate as hundreds attend segregated Motty Steinmetz performance in Afula; dozens briefly squabble with Tiberias mayor who tries to protest event
By ToI Staff
Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias seen outside Tiberias municipality building in northern Israel, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 19, 2019, 6:58 pm
Yisrael Beytenu says PM illegally pushing Tiberias mayor as secularist rival
Avigdor Liberman-led party claims conspiracy, alleged quid pro quo, as Ron Cobi launches long-shot Knesset bid to compete for same voters; Likud denies claim
By Marissa Newman
The launch of the new Saturday bus line in the northern city of Tiberias on February 9, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)
February 9, 2019, 6:39 pm
Free Saturday bus line launches in Tiberias
Mayor Ron Kobi says public transportation on Shabbat is part of a new initiative to serve secular residents and ‘prevent the Haredization’ of city
By ToI Staff
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