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A lone flag-waver on the blocked Ayalon highway during a protest against violence and racism directed at Israelis of Ethiopian descent on May 03, 2015 (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)
May 4, 2015, 4:08 pm
Grappling with melee aftermath, Ethiopian community looks ahead hopefully
Former MK blames violence on ‘anarchic interest groups that jumped on the bandwagon’; advocacy group issues list of demands
By Raphael Ahren
Yair Lapid. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
January 25, 2015, 11:49 pm
Yesh Atid’s new Knesset list promises continuity
Party leader Yair Lapid places ex-cabinet ministers and most experienced lawmakers at top of slate
By ToI Staff
Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman pours a bucket of ice-cold water on his head, taking the Ice Bucket Challenge for the cause of fighting ALS. (photo credit: Benji Goldberg)
August 18, 2014, 9:16 pm
MK takes Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS
Dov Lipman faces the freeze to raise awareness for Lou Gehrig’s disease, calls on Yesh Atid colleagues to do the same
By ToI Staff
Maccabi Tel Aviv’s US guard Tyrese Rice , MVP of the Final Four (Winner of the Euroleague Final Four Most Valuable Player Award), celebrates his team's victory after their Euroleague 2014 Gold medal Final Four basketball game on May 18, 2014 at the Mediolanum stadium in Assago. (photo credit: Olivier Morin/AFP)
May 27, 2014, 10:42 pm
Israeli sports official slammed for racist slur
‘Kushim’ helped Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Real Madrid in the Euroleague basketball final, National Council for Sport chair says
By Yifa Yaakov and Adiv Sterman
Illustrative: An IDF soldier in a Nahal Brigade drill in the Golan Heights. (Nir Gal/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 1, 2014, 3:12 pm
Battling to integrate: The IDF’s misunderstood Ethiopian recruits
One in every three soldiers of Ethiopian heritage serves time in the army’s jails. Slowly but not always surely, the IDF is trying to reverse a dire trend that, many argue, is rooted in wider Israeli ignorance and racism
By Mitch Ginsburg
MK Shimon Solomon, of the Yesh Atid party, at a Knesset discussion regarding the Immigration Authority policy toward asylum seekers and the impact on the business sector, January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
April 29, 2014, 12:11 pm
Ethiopian-born MK calls on NBA to dismiss Clippers owner
‘Financial penalty is not enough,’ fumes MK Shimon Solomon, slamming Donald Sterling’s alleged racism as ‘pathetic and disgusting’
By Raphael Ahren
Knesset Member Shimon Solomon from the Yesh Atid party, February 3, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
November 26, 2013, 10:19 pm
Ultra-Orthodox man hurls racial epithets at Ethiopian MK
Shimon Solomon, of the Yesh Atid party, says he was called a ‘slave’ and told to ‘go back to Africa’
By Adiv Sterman
File: Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau, July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
August 1, 2013, 10:59 am
Chief rabbi says comment about black basketball players was a joke
David Lau responds to firestorm after he chided yeshiva students for watching professional sports and said the games were merely ‘kushim playing other kushim’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Former Yesh Atid MK Shimon Solomon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 16, 2013, 2:13 pm
Teshome Solomon’s arduous, triumphant trek to the Knesset
In Ethiopia, his parents gave him an Amharic name that means ‘he got promoted.’ He certainly did. Now Shimon Solomon is battling for the Ethiopian community, and against racism, as a member of parliament for Yesh Atid
By Raphael Ahren
Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, center with tie, surrounded by his fellow party members after announcing their list for the upcoming Knesset elections in early December, 2012. Most of his list comprises new MKs, 19 of whom are entering the next Knesset. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 1:23 pm
All the kingmaker’s men, and women
Besides Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid’s diverse list includes academics, mayors, journalists, a former Shin Bet head and an Olympic athlete
By Gabe Fisher
Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, center with tie, surrounded by his fellow party members after announcing their list for the upcoming Knesset elections in early December, 2012. Most of his list comprises new MKs, 19 of whom are entering the next Knesset. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
December 2, 2012, 11:27 pm
Yesh Atid’s Knesset slate chock-full of journalists, activists and local politicians
Yair Lapid says his party’s slogan — ‘We came to change’ — reflects outlook of its members
By Ilan Ben Zion
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