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Sharren Haskel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister and MKs attend a plenum session and a vote on reviving the ultra-Orthodox draft exemption bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2026, 8:33 pm
Netanyahu’s union with Haredi parties pushing draft evasion risks his reelection
Bill legalizing exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students faces pushback from within the coalition, while Haredi factions desert PM over failure to pass law
By Melanie Lidman
Green Party party leader Zack Polanski sits alongside the party's newly elected MP Hannah Spencer during a a press conference following her win in the Gorton and Denton by-election, in Manchester, England, February 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
May 2, 2026, 6:28 pm
Israel’s deputy FM: ‘Extremist’ UK Green Party leader ‘legitimizes violence against Jews’
Sharren Haskel denounces Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, after he shared criticism of London police over the arrest of terror attack suspect; his party is embroiled in multiple antisemitism scandals
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Deputy Foreign Minister MK Sharren Haskel attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 2, 2025, 8:02 pm
Deputy FM says she opposes pardon for Netanyahu, in first dissent from within coalition
Cabinet secretary Yossi Fuchs says there’s zero likelihood PM will admit guilt: ‘There is a greater chance of the sun not rising in the morning’
By ToI Staff
MK Boaz Bismuth attends a Knesset House Committee meeting, August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 12, 2025, 7:07 pm
Draft exemption bill stuck as coalition faces internal dissension, Haredi demands
A number of MKs in Netanyahu’s coalition have expressed opposition to Haredi draft legislation but ‘it remains to be seen whether they will be able to stand firm,’ says Edelstein
By Sam Sokol
Simcha and Leah Goldin give a statement about the return of the body of their son, Hadar Goldin, on November 9, 2025, after it was held in Gaza for 11 years. (Alon Gilboa/ Hostages Forum)
November 9, 2025, 10:53 pm
‘Hero of Israel’: After 11 years in Hamas captivity, Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body brought home
Lamenting years of inaction by government, parents thank ‘IDF and no one else’ for long-awaited return, which becomes a symbol of national resilience and remembrance
By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg and Sam Sokol
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates victory during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
November 5, 2025, 3:24 pm
Israeli politicians alarmed at election of ‘Hamas supporter’ Mamdani as NY mayor
Liberman: New York elected ‘the poster boy for the silent jihad’; Diaspora minister calls on local Jews to move to Israel; Arab MK hails win for ‘social justice, equality, and solidarity’
By Sam Sokol
The campus of Tel Hai College (YouTube screen capture)
October 23, 2025, 5:36 pm
Anger as Tel Hai College lecturer says Israel, ‘like Third Reich,’ lost right to exist
Ilana Hairston doubles down on comparison of ‘genocidal Israel’ to Nazi Germany, claims right to free speech on personal Facebook page; deputy FM warns ‘moral red line’ crossed
By Stuart Winer
Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid attends a Yesh Atid party conference in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2025 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 2, 2025, 2:14 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 2: Day 697 – Lapid dips into election rhetoric, appeals for unity
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses political maneuvers, Haredi infighting and a draft update; tech editor Sharon Wrobel analyzes airline news and a milk shortage
By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Sharon Wrobel
New Hope MK Sharren Haskel in the plenum hall of the Knesset, June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
September 1, 2025, 8:00 am
Rejecting return to Likud, New Hope’s Haskel sees herself as ‘politically homeless’
Deputy foreign minister bemoans the ‘personal’ and ‘sectoral’ turn in politics, indicates she could join another party in order to advance her agenda
By Sam Sokol
A Fogbow aid plane is loaded at an airport in Juba, South Sudan, on June 9, 2025, before conducting airdrops of food in the Upper Nile region. (AP Photo/ Florence Miettaux)
August 18, 2025, 7:48 pm
Israel to send humanitarian aid to South Sudan as it battles deadly cholera outbreak
Jerusalem plans to provide Juba with medical equipment, water purification supplies and food, amid reports that it’s in talks to relocate Gazans to the troubled East African nation
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar after the latter announces his reentry into government, September 29, 2024. (Chaim Tzach/GPO)
August 13, 2025, 9:31 pm
Ruling Likud party approves merger with Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope
Five years after leaving Netanyahu’s party due to ‘cult of personality’ around the prime minister, former rival declares it’s ‘good to return home’
By Sam Sokol
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
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