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Sharren Haskel
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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
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Lazar Berman
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
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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
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Sam Sokol
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
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Sam Sokol
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
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Sam Sokol
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
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Stuart Winer
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
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Sam Sokol
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’
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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’
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Stuart Winer
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
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Ash Obel
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
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Tobias Siegal
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
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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
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ToI Staff
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
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Ilan Ben Zion
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
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