Tzipi Livni

January 20, 2019, 12:13 pm

Poll: Lapid-Livni merger would yield 17 Knesset seats

Likud would remain largest faction with 32 seats; Gantz’s party in third place with 12; Jewish Home supplanted by new Bennett-Shaked party, the New Right; Kulanu reduced to 4

By TOI staff

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked meets with Druze activists outside her home in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2019. (Screen capture: Ynet)

January 18, 2019, 3:03 pm

Justice minister squares off with Druze protesters over nation-state law

Shaked acknowledges legislation created a ‘wound’ among members of minority group, but vows it won’t be changed

By TOI staff

January 15, 2019, 3:31 am

Lapid said to rule out union with Livni, vowing he ‘won’t unite with the left’

Center-left alliance with Hatnua to challenge prime minister reportedly no longer a possibility; Livni said to have compared Yesh Atid leader to Netanyahu

By TOI staff

MKs Tzipi Livni (L) and Yair Lapid (R) talk in the Knesset on May 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

January 13, 2019, 6:20 pm

Lapid and Livni said mulling political union to form center-left bloc

Yesh Atid sources reportedly say ‘excellent’ meeting held after Labor’s Gabbay dumped Hatnua leader on live TV

By TOI staff

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party, delivers a speech over boos and whistles at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on January 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

January 10, 2019, 10:09 pm

Over boos and whistles, Gabbay tells angry, divided Labor he can beat Netanyahu

Pandemonium at conference highlights bitter discontent among Labor activists at party infighting, collapse in polls; MK Cabel: We made a mistake choosing you

By Raoul Wootliff

Labor leader Avi Gabbay (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 9, 2019, 1:05 pm

Gabbay admits Gantz won’t join forces with Labor to oust Netanyahu

Leader of opposition party, plummeting in the polls, urges Resilience Party leader and Yesh Atid’s Lapid to pledge not to sit in Likud-led government

By TOI staff

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a September 11, 2013, Navy ceremony (photo credit: AP Photo: Dan Balilty)

January 8, 2019, 10:16 pm

Netanyahu remains preferred PM, but Gantz is now close behind, poll finds

Survey shows three percentage points separate the premier and the ex-IDF chief; a second poll shows Likud, with projected 32 seats, far ahead of any other rival party

By TOI staff

MK Shelly Yachimovich speaks during a protest against sexual harassment against women in front of Tel Aviv University on November 19, 2017. (Flash90)

January 7, 2019, 11:47 pm

Netanyahu lambasted as promised TV ‘drama’ fizzles into ‘lame election show’

Political rivals accuse PM of using prime time TV to ‘wildly attack law enforcement,’ say he isn’t fit for office; analysts mock his demand to confront state witnesses

By Michael Bachner

Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference, in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

January 5, 2019, 7:26 pm

Hitting back at Gallant, Gantz’s party says Israel needs ‘different leadership’

Israel Resilience party urges ‘different discourse’ after former IDF colleague attacks political newcomer’s campaign, questions his military record and says he has ‘nothing to say’

By TOI staff

Yoav Galant at the Knesset on December 24, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 5, 2019, 3:04 pm

Likud’s new general attacks Gantz: ‘He’s silent because he has nothing to say’

Labor’s Yachimvoich says she’d like to ally with the former army chief; Yesh Atid official says he’s open to joining forces with Tzipi Livni

By TOI staff

January 4, 2019, 11:57 pm

Labor’s embattled Gabbay urges Gantz, Lapid to join forces under his leadership

Leader of opposition party, plummeting in the polls, shrugs off criticism of his firing of Tzipi Livni, says he still believes he’ll be Israel’s next PM

By TOI staff

Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)

January 4, 2019, 10:45 am

Situation normal, all fudged up: 10 things to know for January 4

It’s election season, which means the spin cycle is on overdrive, and nobody is safe from the whirring blades of politicking

By Joshua Davidovich

Head of the Zionist Union political party Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

January 3, 2019, 4:14 pm

You want seats with that? 8 things to know for January 3

Avi Gabbay is hoping posturing will help him win back some cred for Labor, the right and left co-mingle, and an Israeli xenophobe makes a martyr out of a far-right demagogue

By Joshua Davidovich

Composite image of Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay, left, and Labor Party Knesset Member Eitan Cabel. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

January 3, 2019, 12:52 pm

After booting Livni, Labor’s Gabbay faces possible mutiny by party members

Eitan Cabel says that in the business world, the chairman would have long ago resigned or been pushed out; MK Nahmias-Verbin also wants change of leadership

By Stuart Winer

Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay (L) announces the shock break up of the Zionist Union as his erstwhile partner, head of opposition Tzipi Livni, looks on, during a party faction meeting in the Knesset on January 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 2, 2019, 10:47 pm

After he humiliatingly ditched Livni, Gabbay’s Labor slumps in polls

TV surveys find Netanyahu’s Likud still far ahead of the pack; Jewish Home predicted to struggle to remain in Knesset, after Bennett and Shaked quit

By TOI staff