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Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90.)
September 1, 2026, 7:36 pm
Yair Golan warns Sara Netanyahu of $825,000 suit for airing Oct. 7 conspiracy theory
Democrats leader, who rescued multiple people from Nova festival, tells PM’s wife to donate to rave’s survivors and retract suggestion he had advance knowledge of Hamas onslaught
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, speaks during a party rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 26, 2026, 11:27 pm
Democrats chair Yair Golan said to request security detail due to threats on his life
Request reportedly cites posts saying Golan should be hanged, shot, maimed; Eisenkot trades barbs with hawkish newcomer Winter as PM’s glumness on Likud’s chances is backed up by poll
By Sam Sokol
Democrats Party Chairman Yair Golan (left) gives a statement to the media outside the Channel 12 News studios in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Yisrael Beiteinu party chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 13, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2026, 7:02 pm
Liberman tells Golan to ‘shut up,’ says rhetoric aiding Netanyahu election campaign
In opposition in-fighting, Golan says Liberman should ‘stop echoing’ right-wing messaging, as Likud continues to weaponize The Democrats leader’s past comments ahead of elections
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, speaks during a party rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 26, 2026, 12:20 am
Launching election campaign, Democrats’ Golan says blood spilled in West Bank is on PM’s hands
At event ahead of weekly anti-government protests, left-wing party says it eyes education and justice ministries, vows to keep criminal defendants out of office, nix judicial overhaul laws
By Noam Lehmann
MKs Naama Lazimi (red jacket) and Gilad Kariv (to her right) celebrate with other Democrats party politicians after winning the No. 2 and No. 3 slots respectively on the party's Knesset slate, following party leader Yair Golan (to Kariv's right). The candidates gathered in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2026, after the party's primary. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 20, 2026, 9:53 pm
MK Naama Lazimi wins No. 2 spot after Yair Golan in left-wing Democrats’ primary
Party says 97,000 of 112,376 registered members cast ballots in digital vote; party leader predicts list will draw ‘more than a million voters’; Reform Rabbi Kariv comes in third
By Ariela Karmel
MK Nissim Vaturi speaks (left) during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 9, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); MK Naama Lazimi attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, July 8, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2026, 7:35 pm
‘Even worse’ than Hamas: Likud MK Vaturi calls left-wing lawmaker Lazimi an ‘enemy’
The Democrats MK says right-wing lawmaker is ‘inviting the next political assassination’; Yair Golan: Coalition has ‘no limit to its disgrace’
By ToI Staff
Activists with The Democrats party seen being attacked in south Tel Aviv's Hatikvah Market on July 3, 2026. (Screen captures: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 3, 2026, 7:10 pm
Police arrest 2 for allegedly attacking Democrats party activists in south Tel Aviv
Deputy mayor, who is running in left-leaning party’s primary, accuses Netanyahu of fostering a ‘new reality’ where she can’t canvass in city’s Hatikvah Market, a Likud stronghold
By Noam Lehmann
MK Yitzhak Pindrus (left) attends a meeting of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); MK Naama Lazimi attends a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions seeking to overturn the election of attorney Michael Rabello as State Comptroller, June 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2026, 3:55 pm
Haredi MK Pindrus says opposition lawmaker Lazimi should be shot in legs for protesting
Asked if he believes cops should fire at demonstrators who block roads, including his party chair, UTJ lawmaker says: ‘Sure, but start with Lazimi’; Democrats MK files police complaint
By Ethan Rubinson
Democrats chief Yair Golan speaks during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 6, 2026. (Courtesy of The Democrats)
June 28, 2026, 5:12 pm
Golan’s Democrats party unveils 51 primary candidates, touts 85,000 members
Vying for a spot on the left-wing alliance’s slate are current and former lawmakers, civil society activists, the IDF’s first Christian Arab lieutenant colonel, and the brother of a slain hostage
By Ariela Karmel
Police at the Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon on June 26, 2026 (Israel Police)
June 26, 2026, 8:27 pm
‘Here to stay’: Hundreds at Pride parade in flashpoint southern town of Mitzpe Ramon
Opposition MKs attend sixth annual parade; children allegedly throw eggs at participant in desert community whose authorities have previously sought to block the event
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Party leaders Ayman Odeh (center left) and Ahmad Tibi (center right) seen during a Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2026, 7:08 pm
Arab parties Hadash, Ta’al, Balad announce joint electoral slate — without Ra’am
Factions say they are ‘leaving the door open’ for Mansour Abbas’s party to join them before the election; former MK Michal Rozin to run in The Democrats primary
By Ariela Karmel
MKs Avigdor Liberman (front right) and Gadi Eisenkot (bottom left) in the Knesset, September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 7, 2026, 5:03 pm
Amid speculation of merger, Eisenkot and Liberman say they’re ‘deepening cooperation’
Yashar and Yisrael Beytenu party heads hold meeting; Yair Golan urges Eisenkot to join either with his Democrats or Bennett and Lapid’s Together party
By Sam Sokol
The Democrats chairman Yair Golan speaks in a video statement published May 5, 2026. (Screen capture: X/Yair Golan)
May 5, 2026, 8:21 pm
Golan: Zionist opposition must partner with Arab party Ra’am to topple government
The Democrats chief says public embrace of MK Mansour Abbas is ‘appropriate Zionist response’ after Smotrich said Arabs’ inclusion in last government was worse than Oct. 7 debacle
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
(Clockwise from top left): The Democrats chief Yair Golan, Yesh Atid chief and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 28, 2026, 10:17 pm
Israeli opposition leaders rally behind government as Israel and US strike Iran
‘We are all united on the operation,’ declares Lapid; Arab-majority Hadash party calls Israel ‘full partner’ in ‘global American imperialism,’ slams opposition for backing attack
By Sam Sokol
Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 16, 2026, 7:44 pm
Lapid warns ‘liberal bloc’ may lose next election if it doesn’t unite – behind him
‘If we don’t come to our senses, we will lose,’ opposition leader says, argues his party is best situated to lead; prominent anti-government activist joins Golan’s The Democrats
By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel
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