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Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); center: President Isaac Herzog at the president's residence in Jerusalem, March 12, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, February 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Yair Golan: A preview of what will happen on election day
AG: Government pledge to disobey High Court undermines core principles of rule of law
By ToI Staff
Herzog: Disobeying court ruling crosses a red line; opposition leaders warn against weakening of democratic norms, envision 'anarchy in the streets'; Israel Bar Association chair: 'Israel will not survive' if move goes unchallenged
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
Israel Police spokesman Aryeh Doron visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 16, 2026, 11:35 am
Israel Police spokesman calls Yair Golan a ‘defiler of Israel,’ drawing backlash
Aryeh Doron later walks back remarks he made after opposition Democrats leader said he’d keep a close eye on police during coming election to ensure it isn’t serving government
By ToI Staff
Left-to-right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks outside his office at the Knesset on June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90); Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, June 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 15, 2026, 11:52 am
Ministers say Israel won’t be bound by Iran deal, as opposition castigates Netanyahu’s ‘absolute failure’
Defense minister vows the IDF will remain in southern Lebanon, hit Iran hard if needed, despite Trump-Tehran MOU ending Lebanon fighting; Bennett calls Trump-imposed terms a product of failed Israeli leadership
By Emanuel Fabian, Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev Desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 10, 2026, 12:28 pm
Yeshiva rabbis say they won’t send students to tank units due to integration of women
Leaders of 12 yeshivas in ‘hesder’ joint study-service program reject plan to allow women to serve with men; IDF source says army in ‘impossible situation,’ critics pan it as refusal to serve
By ToI Staff, Rossella Tercatin and Emanuel Fabian
Left to right: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Leader of the Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 5, 2026, 1:17 am
Poll shows anti-Netanyahu bloc winning majority; Eisenkot seen as best fit to be PM in separate survey
Zman Yisrael has Zionist opposition parties winning 62 seats, enough to form a government, though they would come short of a majority if all Arab factions run on joint slate
By ToI Staff
The Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, May 13, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 20, 2026, 1:00 am
Preliminary vote to dissolve Knesset set for Wednesday, but no election date set
Democrats’ Yair Golan reportedly urges opposition leaders to hold joint press conference ahead of vote to show unity; elections must be held by Oct. 27 in any case
By Sam Sokol
ToI political correspondents Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol join host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)
May 10, 2026, 2:44 pm
Daily Briefing May 10: Political parties form new constellations ahead of elections
Political correspondents Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel discuss the opposition parties’ mergers and defections, and a blitz of new legislation as the Knesset goes back to work
By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and 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
Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during the launch of a book by Yoav Limor and Oren Nahari in Herzliya, central Israel, April 26, 2026 (Tal Gal/Flash90)
April 26, 2026, 11:08 pm
Eisenkot welcomes Bennett-Lapid union but says: To win, we need to bring in more votes
Former IDF chief, Yashar party leader not joining slate, but Bennett says ‘door is open’; Netanyahu’s Likud: Lapid, Bennett joining ‘terror-supporting Muslim Brotherhood alliance’
By Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Sgt. First Class (res.) Lidor Porat. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 19, 2026, 1:19 pm
IDF reservist killed, nine wounded by explosive in southern Lebanon amid truce
Sgt. First Class (res.) Lidor Porat, 31, dies as engineering vehicle rolls over bomb; military carries out strikes after incident; Lebanon reports repair work on bombed bridges
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Yair Lapid talking on Zoom with members of his Yesh Atid party on April 12, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 13, 2026, 12:16 pm
Lapid lashes out at opposition rivals for ‘fleeing’ Knesset, fight against Netanyahu
‘They are actually angry at those who stayed and fought instead of being angry at those who fled and disappeared,’ Lapid tells party after accusations of leading a weak opposition
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) delivers a statement, April 8, 2026. (GPO screenshot); Opposition leader Yair Lapid gives a televised address, April 8, 2026. (Channel 12 screenshot)
April 9, 2026, 1:16 am
Netanyahu says ‘finger on trigger’ to resume war any time; opposition accuses him of strategic debacle
PM insists Israel wasn’t caught off-guard by truce, says Iran’s enriched uranium will be removed ‘by agreement or through resumed fighting’
By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Iranian pro-government demonstrators burn the US and Israeli flags during a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 8, 2026, 12:37 pm
Netanyahu backs Iran truce; opposition blames him for worst-ever ‘diplomatic disaster’
After Trump announces two-week ceasefire in exchange for Hormuz reopening, Lapid charges PM failed to secure Israel’s vital demands, warns strategic damage will take years to repair
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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