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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 364

Shelly Yachimovich

Illustrative: Isaac Herzog outside the Knesset (Courtesy)
June 2, 2021, 1:36 pm
Isaac Herzog elected Israel’s 11th president, with 87 votes of Knesset’s 120
Jewish agency head, former Labor chief and son of 6th president defeats educator Miriam Peretz, says he’ll work to ‘build bridges’ within Israeli society and with Diaspora
By Raoul Wootliff
Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid are seen on Wednesday evening, as they inform President Reuven Rivlin they have succeeded in forming a government, June 2, 2021 (Courtesy)
June 2, 2021, 10:38 am
Change bloc clinches majority in 11th-hour talks, aims for swift swearing-in
Parties of potential coalition could try to oust Speaker Yariv Levin if he delays vote; leaders fear intense Netanyahu effort to break up bloc before vote takes place
By ToI Staff
Presidential candidates Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog (Meir Elifor, courtesy)
June 2, 2021, 6:31 am
MKs to elect Israel’s 11th president: A political prince vs. a bereaved mother
Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz, who lost 2 sons in battle, vies to become country’s first woman president, while Isaac Herzog aims to follow in his father’s footsteps
By ToI Staff
Former Labor head Isaac Herzog (left) and MK Shelly Yachimovich at a party conference in Tel Aviv on December 14, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 25, 2021, 5:26 pm
Witness in PM’s trial: Presidential hopeful Herzog called Labor rival a ‘bitch’
Ex-head of center-left party, who is the leading candidate to replace Rivlin, apologizes to Shelly Yachimovich for ‘unnecessary comment’ from 2013
By ToI Staff
Yesh Atid lead Yair Lapid (L) and former vice president Joe Biden in an undated photo (Courtesy)
November 7, 2020, 8:04 pm
Israeli opposition head, Yamina’s Bennett congratulate Biden; Netanyahu, not yet
Lapid and Justice Minister Nissenkorn expect relations to ‘deepen and strengthen’ further under newly elected US president; Bennett sure Biden committed to Israel’s security
By ToI Staff
New Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry on May 18, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)
August 22, 2020, 2:17 pm
Justice Ministry denies Likud claim AG closed criminal case against Nissenkorn
Ministry says no evidence behind allegation that Mandelblit secretly closed investigation over labor union voting irregularities in quid pro quo for halting state attorney’s tenure
By ToI Staff
Labor party MK Stav Shaffir seen in February 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 25, 2019, 5:17 pm
One small step for Stav Shaffir, one large step for Israeli politics
Boldly abandoning Labor to form an alliance between Meretz and the Israel Democratic Party, the young lawmaker may be a ‘traitor’ now but welcomed back by colleagues later
By Biranit Goren
Shelly Yachimovich leads a State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 7:19 pm
Labor’s Yachimovich announces timeout from politics, laments gamesmanship
After 13 years as an MK, during which she led the party and the opposition, the socially minded legislator says she’s ‘very tired of the politics part’
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin and his wife, Nechama Rivlin. (GPO)
June 4, 2019, 3:53 pm
Politicians across the spectrum mourn ‘modest and smart’ Nechama Rivlin
Ministers and lawmakers offer condolences over the death of a first lady they remember as relentless activist for the benefit of others
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor party, seen during a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 2, 2019, 10:37 am
After backlash, Gabbay announces vote for Labor party chair, but not slate
Leader says he won’t hold primary for list in upcoming election; move comes after lawmakers urge him to resign following his ‘contemptible’ talks to enter Netanyahu government
By ToI Staff
Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay at a discussion on a bill to dissolve the parliament, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 1, 2019, 9:04 pm
Report: In Gabbay deal with PM, Labor would have been expected to back immunity
Officials close to talks contradict Labor leader’s claim Netanyahu’s offer took issue off the table; sources close to Gabbay: Party would have quit coalition if PM were charged
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turns to speak to Labor party leader Avi Gabbay in the course of the Knesset vote to disperse and hold new elections, late on May 29, 2019 (Ynet screenshot)
May 31, 2019, 10:48 pm
To assuage double-cross fears, Netanyahu let Gabbay film him rejecting Liberman
TV report details desperate lengths to which PM went, in secret talks through Tuesday night, to create a package sweet enough to entice leftist Labor into his right-wing coalition
By ToI Staff
Labor MK Stav Shaffir speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 30, 2019, 12:40 pm
Labor MK: Party chief Gabbay ‘has ended his political career’
Stav Shaffir says party must regroup ahead of next election; Gabbay: It was ‘my duty’ to weigh Likud offer
By ToI Staff
Then-Meretz party leader MK Tamar Zandberg at a Knesset faction meeting on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 30, 2019, 8:22 am
Meretz renews call for merger with Labor as new elections called
‘The present need is a large and significant left-wing bloc,’ leader Zandberg says, as politicians begin preparing for September 17 vote
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman leaves after a faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 30, 2019, 3:16 am
Liberman: Israel going to polls because Netanyahu surrendered to ultra-Orthodox
UTJ’s Litzman: Liberman chose a campaign of incitement against the ultra-Orthodox; Gantz: PM’s wish to secure immunity means millions to be spent on elections instead of hospitals
By ToI Staff
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