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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset on May 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 8:48 pm
PM claims ‘tremendous achievements’ in Gaza war that have ‘changed face of Middle East’
In defiant speech to Knesset, Netanyahu says accomplishments wouldn’t have been made if government had listened to opposition; Lapid blames him for Oct. 7, ‘nadir’ in US relations
By Jeremy Sharon
Activists chain themselves together as they block a road outside the Knesset in Jerusalem during a protest against the current Israeli government, March 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2024, 8:43 pm
Demanding early elections, protesters chain themselves outside Knesset
At least four arrested as riot police disperse demonstration; inside the parliament building, families of October 7 victims hand out ‘dismissal letters’ to coalition lawmakers
By Sam Sokol and Shira Silkoff
A parliamentary adviser shouts at Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman during a hearing to approve the coalition's bill to drastically reduce the courts' use of the reasonableness standard, July 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 20, 2023, 11:02 am
Labor parliamentary aides to be barred from Knesset over outburst at committee vote
MKs’ assistants launched a protest during a stormy vote on controversial ‘reasonableness bill,’ party head Michaeli defends their actions: ‘We are all behind you’
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on December 19, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 9:36 am
Knesset to swear in Israel’s 37th government as Netanyahu returns to power
Incoming PM and Lapid to deliver speeches in the plenum; ballot to be held over new speaker Ohana, followed by confidence vote on incoming government and its swearing-in
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 23, 2022, 4:18 pm
Opposition bills advance, as Gantz boycotts plenum over stalled IDF pension law
Coalition pulls its legislation amid efforts to reach compromise with Blue and White; opposition pulls bill calling for investigation of defense minister’s past business
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Jerusalem on February 17, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
February 17, 2022, 4:17 pm
Bennett presses Pelosi on Iron Dome funding, thanks her for support
At Jerusalem meeting, pair discusses challenges facing Jewish state, including Iran; Pelosi had told Herzog that Congress likely to fund missile defense system as soon as March
By ToI Staff
Yifat Shasha-Biton at a Housing Ministry ceremony in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 21, 2020, 3:54 pm
Unlikely rebel? Meet Yifat Shasha-Biton, the Likud MK defying Netanyahu’s orders
Is Coronavirus Committee chair a people’s champion keeping beaches and restaurants open in defiance of hasty ministerial rulings, or an opposition stooge endangering public health?
By Sam Sokol
Workers installing flags for Mike Pence's visit to the Knesset on January 21, 2018. (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset)
January 22, 2018, 1:42 pm
Watch: US Vice President Mike Pence addresses Knesset
Billed as ‘historic,’ speech to special Knesset plenary session to be boycotted by Joint Arab List lawmakers
By ToI Staff
Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir performs during the 50th anniversary of the Knesset on Tuesday, January 19 2016. (Knesset)
January 19, 2016, 4:14 pm
Knesset celebrates 50 years with MK talent show
Story-telling, guitar-strumming, karate-playing lawmakers entertain the public on anniversary of Israeli parliament’s iconic building
By ToI Staff
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