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May Golan, minister for Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 3, 2025, 3:40 pm
Social equality minister roundly panned for plan to divert Arab economic development funds
May Golan says $1 billion will be used to fight crime wave, but reps from 7 government offices tell Knesset panel the minister is coopting cash meant to fix root cause of problems
By Ariela Karmel
Social Equality Minister May Golan is seen outside a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 29, 2025, 6:50 pm
Police officer questioned for alleged involvement in May Golan corruption case
Officer said to be relative of key suspect in alleged financial crimes surrounding social equality minister, whose top aide is reportedly to be indicted in separate drug case
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Social Equality Minister May Golan seen outside a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 20, 2025, 7:50 pm
Police now suspect embattled minister Golan of accepting bribes — reports
Social equality minister was already suspected of fraud and breach of trust, but evidence against her is said to give rise to new potential charges
By ToI Staff
Social Equality Minister May Golan at a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 18, 2025, 7:26 pm
Minister at center of graft probe said to spirit mom out of police station during grilling
Social Equality Minister May Golan, who has refused to submit to police questioning, claims she took her mother home from the station due to her poor health
By ToI Staff
Social Equality Minister May Golan (L) seen outside a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Ehud Gabay, an attorney who is a suspect in a fraud probe of Golan, in an advertisement for his law firm uploaded on March 28, 2022. (Screenshot/YouTube)
September 17, 2025, 5:42 pm
Confidant said to back out of signing state witness deal against Likud minister
Ehud Gabay, attorney and ex-adviser to Social Equality Minister May Golan, was reportedly close to inking agreement with prosecutors before reneging
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Social Equality Minister May Golan at the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 15, 2025, 12:47 pm
Lawyer tied to Likud minister’s alleged financial crimes arrested in sweeping raid
Police search Social Equality Ministry offices, detain associates of Minister May Golan suspected of fraud, misusing taxpayer funds; officers find marijuana farm in home of adviser
By Charlie Summers
View of the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm on February 13, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
April 28, 2025, 12:59 pm
Arab leaders decry Likud minister’s refusal to fund major community development plan
Social Justice Minister May Golan diverts millions earmarked to boost socioeconomic status and reduce crime in Arab communities, in latest move that critics say undermines five-year plan
By Charlie Summers
Social Equality Minister May Golan, at the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 14, 2025, 11:59 pm
Minister questioned by police over 2020 traffic incident, after dodging for months
May Golan, who for months evaded police requests, finally appears at Tel Aviv station, and is released without conditions; she allegedly ran a red light and injured a motorcyclist
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) sits with Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli and Likud Minister May Golan (L) at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 10, 2024, 10:59 am
Netanyahu said to freeze minister’s money-saving resignation amid Likud MK threats
At least 5 lawmakers in PM’s party reportedly warn they’ll vote no on Amichai Chikli keeping Diaspora portfolio if he drops social equality role, as move puts others’ seats at risk
By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer
Former social equality minister and current Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen (Noam Moskowitz / GPO)
August 3, 2023, 8:16 am
‘It’s already happening’: Ex-gender equality minister says women’s rights under attack
Scholars join lawmakers in slamming government policies that add up to a lowering of women’s standing
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (right) of the Religious Zionism party talks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
June 18, 2023, 8:12 pm
Committee on Arab affairs to include 18 ministers and only one Arab official
Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are among the far-right members of the committee, which will devise policy on combating soaring wave of deadly crime in Arab community
By ToI Staff
Relatives and friends of Holocaust survivors place flowers on names of concentration camps seen on the floor of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day April 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 16, 2023, 2:04 pm
Ahead of annual memorial day, 147,199 Holocaust survivors living in Israel
Figure includes 521 survivors who immigrated from Ukraine after Russian invasion; around 15,000 died over previous year; average age of survivors is 85
By ToI Staff
MK May Golan during a discussion and a vote on the "Citizenship Law" at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 2, 2023, 12:58 pm
Likud’s May Golan set to become minister for advancement of women’s status
In new position, lawmaker will be tasked with eradicating violence against women, promoting gender equality, fighting sexual harassment and preventing the exclusion of women
By Ash Obel
MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 2:47 pm
Amichai Chikli, son of a Conservative rabbi, named Diaspora affairs minister
Though the Likud lawmaker doesn’t identify with the progressive denomination, he has deep ties to it; as founder of a pre-army program, he’s connected to a variety of Jewish groups
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 3:00 am
Romania to pay pensions of citizens who moved to Israel after surviving Holocaust
Deal between Jerusalem and Bucharest, which was caught up in red tape for past six years, expected to provide some 7,000 survivors with hundreds of additional shekels a month
By ToI Staff
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