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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

Yael Cohen-Paran

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Haim Jelin. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 11:40 pm
Labor announces last 2 names on Knesset list: MKs from Hatnua, Yesh Atid
After former IDF operations chief Tal Russo named as no. 2, ex-Eshkol council mayor Haim Jelin and environmental activist Yael Cohen-Paran join center-left party
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
Illustrative picture of a #MeToo supporter of the online campaign against sexual abuse and harassment (nito100/Getty Images/iStock)
December 11, 2018, 11:57 am
New law allows sex abuse victims to speak out, give interviews
‘Those who need to hide are the criminals, not the victims,’ says justice minister, after cross-party support ends prohibition on publicity
By ToI Staff
The site where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a kindergarten in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2018, 2:14 pm
Shell in May and go away: 7 things to know for May 29
Gaza tensions break into the open with a mortar barrage on southern Israel; Jerusalem makes peace with Assad to get rid of Iran; and a food fight in the Knesset
By Joshua Davidovich
Knesset lawmakers tuck into vegan alternatives to their meat and dairy favorites in support of annual Animal Rights Day. Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), who hosted the feast, stands at the end of the table next to the chefs, February 6, 2018. (Anonymous for Animal Rights).
February 6, 2018, 3:45 pm
Lawmakers go vegan for the day to support animal rights
Annual Knesset Animal Rights Day organized by cross-party group includes committee discussions and virtual reality experiences of livestock life and abuse
By Sue Surkes
Yehudah Kimani blows a shofar on December 13, 2017, in his home of Kasuku in the highlands of Kenya. (courtesy Yehudah Kimani/Facebook)
January 4, 2018, 2:13 pm
Kenyan Jewish leader, denied entry to Israel, can reapply for visa
Knesset committee raps Interior Ministry, which the Conservative Movement accused of discrimination against Yehudah Kimani, who wanted to study in a Jerusalem yeshiva
By Melanie Lidman
State Prosecuter Shai Nitzan attends an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2017, 7:57 pm
State prosecutor slams ‘problematic’ police recommendations bill
Opposition MKs appeal to Knesset speaker after contested legislation is fast-tracked for final votes next week
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Hikers near the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater lake (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 2, 2017, 10:00 pm
Thirsty Sea of Galilee sinking toward lowest level ever recorded
One of the worst droughts for a century has experts researching possibility of pumping desalinated water into the lake
By Melanie Lidman
File: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (left) and MK Nachman Shai at a meeting of the caucus for US-Israel relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 25, 2017, 1:23 pm
Meeting lawmakers, envoy hails US role in ending Temple Mount crisis
Rebuffing claims that administration entered too late, David Friedman says work between US, Israel, Jordan helped defuse situation ‘very quickly’
By Raphael Ahren
In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years. (Courtesy)
May 15, 2017, 3:23 pm
With bill shelved, woman denied divorce for 17 years ends hunger strike
Rotation of activists will keep fasting for Zvia Gordetsky, 53, whose husband refused her a divorce again on Monday; rabbinical courts say ‘no solution’ to her plight
By Marissa Newman
In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years. (Courtesy)
May 8, 2017, 10:41 pm
Refused a divorce for 17 years, hunger-striker takes fight to Knesset
Outside parliament, Zvia Gordetsky implores lawmakers to adopt bill that would allow ‘chained women’ to annul marriages even when the husband refuses
By Marissa Newman
An ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)
April 25, 2017, 6:03 pm
Haifa mayor attacks Netanyahu for seeking to delay ammonia tank closure
Opposition MKs also admonish PM over efforts to stall facility’s shuttering, accuse him of putting business interests over residents
By ToI Staff
A supermakert worker bagging groceries in plastic bags at the Rami Levi supermarket in Talpiot, Jerusalem, September 3, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2016, 11:55 pm
After long haul, supermarkets to charge for plastic bags from Sunday
10 agorot per bag law to take effect on January 1 in attempt to curb pollution, but activists warn small sum won’t be enough to dissuade use
By Raoul Wootliff
A kangaroo jill and her joey (public domain, Tom Lind via Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2016, 12:10 am
MKs jump to join all-expenses-paid trip to save the kangaroos
14 lawmakers fall for TV sting, sign up for excursion at busiest time of year, offered by an organization that does not exist
By ToI Staff
A picture taken on May 26, 2016 shows some of the 55,000 mirrors directing sunlight toward the Ashalim solar tower, which is under construction near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Ashalim in the Negev desert. (Jack Guez/AFP)
June 19, 2016, 6:54 am
In Israeli desert, world’s highest solar tower looks to future
Ashalim Tower will stand twice as tall as overseas competitors and will receive reflected light from a field of 55,000 mirrors straddling a million square meters
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU
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