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Doron Levy, head of the Department for Israeli Sign Language at the Academy of the Hebrew Language, holding a poster explaining the basic signs of Israeli Sign Language on March 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
May 1, 2025, 2:13 pm
For hearing-impaired, recognition of Israeli Sign Language speaks volumes
Academy of the Hebrew Language’s establishment of Department of Israeli Sign Language seen as major move promoting development and codification of unique system of communication
By Rossella Tercatin
Israeli protesters attend a rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 21, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 28, 2023, 10:43 am
Anti-government protests to begin with minute’s silence for Jerusalem terror attack
Organizers say they ‘share in pain and mourning’ of victims’ families; speakers at Tel Aviv rally to include former police chief Roni Alsheich, who led Netanyahu corruption probe
By ToI Staff
MK Shirly Pinto attends a faction meeting of National Unity Party at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 25, 2022, 12:17 pm
Pinto: I left Yamina because Shaked will prop up a narrow Netanyahu government
Lawmaker, who jumped ship and joined the National Unity alliance ahead of coming elections, says country needs a broad, diverse coalition to break cycle of political instability
By ToI Staff
In this handout photo released by National Unity on August 22, 2022, leaders Benny Gantz (R) and Gideon Sa'ar (l) pose with the party's newest member, MK Shirly Pinto (C). (Elad Malka)
August 22, 2022, 12:59 pm
MK Shirly Pinto leaves Yamina for newly formed National Unity
Israel’s first deaf Knesset member becomes the 2nd former member of ex-PM Bennett’s party to join alliance led by Gantz, Sa’ar and Eisenkot
By Alexander Fulbright
Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett and MK Idit Silman in the Knesset, June 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 15, 2022, 11:05 pm
Bennett splits from Yamina, as ex-coalition MKs take revenge on renegade Silman
Former-PM departs his own party in tactical move letting allies join other parties; coalition MKs reject Idit Silman’s similar request, meaning she must now quit the Knesset to run
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Shirley Pinto communicates with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a swearing-in ceremony of new parliamentarians at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2022, 11:59 pm
Yamina MK Pinto, senior official reject joining Shaked’s Zionist Spirit
Knesset’s first deaf member vows to keep fighting for disabled rights; former Yamina director-general Shirley Weinstein also confirms she won’t enlist in new right-wing party
By Ash Obel
Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked (L) speaks with New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 4, 2022, 11:50 am
Sa’ar, Shaked trade barbs over talks with Likud in battle for right-wing voters
Justice minister says anyone voting for Shaked knows she’ll join a Netanyahu government; interior minister says she was making ‘superhuman efforts’ to prevent elections
By Jeremy Sharon
MKs Idit Silman (R) and Nir Orbach arrive for a Yamina faction meeting at the Knesset on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 17, 2022, 10:48 am
In shift, Bennett’s Yamina moves to strip rebel MK Silman of her committee posts
Coalition said to tell Knesset it will remove Silman from panels after she wouldn’t back Kahana’s reappointment as religious services minister; Pinto to replace her on health panel
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 9, 2022, 4:35 pm
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tests positive for COVID
Former prime minister feeling well; corruption trial likely to be delayed
By ToI Staff
Yamina MK Shirly Pinto brings her new baby to the Knesset on December 15, 2021 (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
December 15, 2021, 5:57 pm
MK forced to come to Knesset with six-day-old baby, but coalition still loses a vote
Opposition had declined to offset new mom Shirly Pinto if she’d stayed away; but another coalition MK boycotted session, and Ra’am’s Abbas flubbed a vote, leading to opposition win
By ToI Staff
A composite image of Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yair Lapid during their respective Likud and Yesh Atid faction meetings at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 8, 2021, 6:13 pm
Lapid pans ‘hateful’ discourse; Netanyahu suggests MK fabricated assault story
Foreign minister says he got death threat likening him to Hitler; Likud chief asserts coalition whip Silman must give proof she was attacked, or apologize
By Michael Bachner
Yamina's Abir Kara at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)
October 27, 2021, 8:25 pm
‘A party of idiots’: MK angrily leaves Yamina’s WhatsApp group, then returns
Abir Kara clashes with colleague over disability accessibility regulations; Bennett summons him for meeting
By ToI Staff
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked during a memorial ceremony marking 26 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset on October 18, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 19, 2021, 12:59 pm
Shaked slams coalition partners after Rabin memorial: ‘Stop the wild incitement’
Interior minister says she ‘cringed’ at speeches marking assassination, in apparent swipe at Lapid, Horowitz; welcomes decision by Yamina’s Pinto to delete anti-Netanyahu tweet
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during memorial ceremony marking 26 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, on October 18, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 18, 2021, 10:40 pm
Lapid: Rabin assassin’s ‘ideological heirs’ are serving in Knesset today
At parliament memorial for slain PM, FM swipes at Netanyahu, who brokered the deal that made a Kahanist an MK; opposition chair responds that left is abusing Rabin’s memory
By ToI Staff
Shirly Pinto, the first deaf Knesset member, is sworn in to the Knesset on June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2021, 2:48 pm
Israel’s first deaf MK aims to be a full-time warrior for disability rights
Yamina lawmaker Shirly Pinto says she is devoting herself to ensuring that her hearing-impaired son will grow up in a different world than she did
By Amy Spiro
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