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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Sharren Haskel

This handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA shows France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (C) and Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (L) walking with Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of their meeting in Damascus on January 3, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
January 5, 2025, 6:16 pm
As European and Arab leaders rush to meet Syria’s new leader, Israel calls for caution
Ahmed al-Sharaa is hoping to convince the world that he’s left his jihadist past behind, but FM Gideon Sa’ar and other senior officials are not persuaded
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attend a plenum session on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 16, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 30, 2024, 4:07 am
Sa’ar said set to rejoin Likud in coming days, bolstering Netanyahu
Foreign minister, who left party years ago amid dispute with prime minister, reported to have agreed on folding his New Hope into ruling party
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Minister Gideon Sa'ar talks with lawmakers during a plenum session in the Knesset, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 6, 2024, 8:43 pm
In new coalition deal with Likud, Sa’ar relinquishes right to oppose Haredi draft bills
Deal only grants incoming foreign minister’s New Hope party discretion to vote differently than the coalition on laws regarding medical marijuana and changes to the judicial system
By Sam Sokol
Yesh Atid party head Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, right, speaks at a joint press conference with (R-L) National Unity party head Benny Gantz, The Democrats party head Yair Golan, and Yisrael Beytenu party head Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 6, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2024, 4:54 pm
‘An illegitimate PM’: Opposition appeals to Likud MKs not to back Gallant’s ouster
Defense minister’s removal was ‘an act of insanity by an incompetent prime minister,’ says Lapid, as Liberman warns Netanyahu also preparing to fire attorney general
By Sam Sokol
MK Sharren Haskel in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on June 28, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90/ File)
August 1, 2024, 7:24 pm
‘Hezbollah has conquered the north’: New Hope’s Haskel slams ‘incapable’ government
‘I warned of a disaster,’ says ex-Likud MK in wake of Majdal Shams tragedy, accusing her former party of lacking the capacity to govern or prosecute the war effectively
By Sam Sokol
MK Sharren Haskel in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on June 28, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90/ File)
July 4, 2024, 3:09 pm
88-year-old grandmother of Israeli MK beaten in France, called ‘dirty Jew’
New Hope lawmaker Sharren Haskel warns if France doesn’t protect its Jews from radical Islam, other French people will be next to suffer
By Stuart Winer
MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity Party at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 13, 2024, 11:01 pm
‘A statesmanlike right’: Why Gideon Sa’ar has decamped Gantz’s National Unity party
Disagreements over the conduct of the war and desire to position himself as a liberal-right alternative to PM once the war is over drove New Hope party leader’s decision to exit
By Sam Sokol
Minister David Amsalem speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on July 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 13, 2023, 1:28 pm
Likud minister mocked for saying ‘it’s my job’ to name friends to government posts
David Amsalem says he prefers to put forward people he knows well; Labor’s Michaeli calls his attitude ‘corruption at its best’
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of National Unity MK Sharren Haskel, left, wearing her baby daughter in a sling, and Deputy Knesset Speaker of Shas, Uriel Buso, in the Knesset, June 27, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 27, 2023, 10:21 pm
Lawmaker prevented from addressing Knesset while holding her baby daughter
Deputy speaker consults legal authorities, tells National Unity’s Sharren Haskel only MKs are permitted to stand at podium; she pans decision as ‘terrible, humiliating’
By Stuart Winer
MK Sharren Haskel publicly cuts her hair in solidarity with the Iranian protest movement on October 11, 2022 (Screenshot/ Channel 12 -- used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 12, 2022, 9:24 am
MK Haskel cuts hair on stage in show of solidarity with Iran protests
National Unity lawmaker repeats popular protest slogan, ‘Women. Life. Freedom,’ before producing pair of scissors and cutting two locks in front of a Jerusalem Christian conference
By Ash Obel
Ariel University in the West Bank (CC-BY Michael Jacobson/Wikipedia)
June 20, 2022, 3:38 pm
After decade of refusal, Ariel University accepted into key education organization
Bennett welcomes move, says educational institute no longer a ‘stepchild’; other lawmakers see move as a refusal to bow to boycotts of the West Bank
By Tobias Siegal
The legs of bride Lin Dror (L) and groom Alon Marcus (R) are seen as they break two glasses concluding their Reform Jewish wedding ceremony held in front of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2013, in protest of the Orthodox Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the lack of civil marriages in Israel. (Flash90)
February 14, 2022, 11:38 pm
Religious affairs minister said eyeing compromise to allow civil marriages in Israel
But to allow such marriages at foreign missions, Matan Kahana reportedly wants removal of key law allowing offspring of Jews to become citizens; Liberman says it’s a non-starter
By ToI Staff
Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the international marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, on April 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 9, 2022, 7:13 pm
Justice minister proposes further decriminalizing recreational cannabis use
The plan won’t allow prosecution ‘other than in exceptional cases,’ limits fines to NIS 1,000, won’t differentiate between first and repeated offenses
By ToI Staff
An Israeli worker holds medical cannabis, at UNIVO Pharmaceuticals in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Jan. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
February 2, 2022, 3:10 pm
Budding market: Lucrative cannabis industry looks to leverage ex-politicians’ sway
Increasing numbers of former leaders and security chiefs find new careers in the country’s tightly controlled cannabis industry, which hopes to use influence to change laws
By Ilan Ben Zion
Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks during the funeral of Yehuda Dimentman, in Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
December 29, 2021, 11:37 pm
‘Barkat Law’ limiting campaign self-finance passes preliminary Knesset reading
Bill is seen as targeting Nir Barkat, the Knesset’s richest member and a potential successor to Netanyahu as Likud leader
By ToI Staff
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