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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Yesh Atid party

View of a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, August 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 11:41 pm
Parties trade blame as coalition chaos enables opposition to defeat bill for first time
This is ‘how governments fall apart,’ declares Lapid; coalition forced to nix day’s agenda after losing vote on traffic bill; Otzma Yehudit, absent from vote, denies boycott
By Sam Sokol
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 7:42 pm
As Netanyahu flies to DC, Israeli politicians seek to sway his agenda from afar
Right-wing MKs call on PM to emphasize fight against Iran, push back on sanctions against settlers in meeting with Biden; Lapid demands he announce support for hostage deal
By Sam Sokol
Otzma Yehudit party leader National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 12, 2024, 1:46 pm
Ben Gvir is preferred successor to Netanyahu among backers of PM’s current bloc — poll
Far-right Otzma Yehudit leader has support of 24% of respondents in newspaper survey, ahead of ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen at 14%, with Smotrich trailing third at 11%
By ToI Staff
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 10:23 pm
Lapid says Netanyahu orchestrating attorney general’s ouster to revive overhaul
‘We will not participate in pretending that Israel is a democracy if it ceases to be so,’ opposition leader declares, pledging to ‘not rule out any step or action’
By Sam Sokol
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz attends a plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2024, 8:19 pm
Far-right leaders slam Gantz’s exit from government, but hail ‘big opportunity’
Ben Gvir claims the outgoing war cabinet minster’s centrist party ‘put a spoke in the wheels of the war machine’ in recent months
By Sam Sokol
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at the scene of a terror attack in Raanana on January 15, 2024 (Itai Ron /Flash90)
May 19, 2024, 6:17 pm
Bennett says he regrets ‘stupid’ 2021 election pledge not to sit with certain parties
Noting his broken vow not to join a government led by Lapid, former PM says he formed multi-party coalition to bring Israel out of electoral ‘chaos’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2024. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash 90)
April 8, 2024, 8:31 pm
Poll: 71% think Netanyahu should resign either immediately or right after war
Surveys by two top news outlets find half of Israelis want early elections, most think government not doing enough to bring hostages back from Gaza
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Yesh Atid leadership challenger MK Ram Ben Barak (left) and party leader Yair Lapid meet during elections for the leadership in Tel Aviv, March 28, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
March 28, 2024, 9:08 pm
In surprise close call, Lapid holds on to party leadership by a mere 29 votes
Opposition leader wins only 52 percent of vote in leadership contest he was expected to breeze through; thanks opponent Ram Ben Barak for ‘a fair race’
By Sam Sokol
Left: Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaking during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); right: MK Ram Ben Barak leading a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Internal security Committees, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2024, 4:36 pm
Yesh Atid holds first leadership vote — with Lapid widely expected to maintain power
Challenger MK Ram Ben Barak says he does not have major policy disagreements with longtime chairman, but wants to encourage change and democratization of party
By Sam Sokol
MK Gideon Sa'ar arrives for a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset on October 9, 2023 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
March 14, 2024, 10:42 am
Polls show slow start for solo Sa’ar, dramatic impact for Bennett and Cohen parties
Surveys show New Hope leader may struggle after split from Gantz, but a potential dramatic reshaping of political map if former PM and ex-Mossad chief were to run
By ToI Staff
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 19, 2024, 9:41 pm
Lapid advances bill to enlist ultra-Orthodox, demanding they share IDF burden
Opposition leader calls on defense minister to withdraw government bill lengthening enlistment period to make up for manpower shortages, says IDF must be ‘real people’s army’
By Sam Sokol
MK Moshe Tur-Paz speaks during a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 18, 2024, 11:37 pm
Yesh Atid lawmaker: Party could sit in a coalition with Smotrich, but not Ben Gvir
Far-right leader ‘is far from my cup of tea, we have major differences, but I could see us working with him,’ Moshe Tur-Paz tells ToI
By Sam Sokol
Head of opposition and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
January 15, 2024, 9:09 pm
Lapid accuses PM of playing politics with budget while ‘businesses are collapsing’
Government ‘does not know how to manage the war,’ opposition leader says as controversial state budget approved by cabinet. Netanyahu’s policy an ‘economic failure,’ says Liberman
By Sam Sokol
Opposition Leader and chairman of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 8, 2024, 9:26 pm
Lapid urges Gantz to bolt war coalition, says he’d join a government led by Edelstein
‘Netanyahu is not fit to lead the country,’ opposition leader asserts, expressing willingness to serve in ‘replacement government’ under different Likud leader without longtime PM
By Sam Sokol
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) greets US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
October 4, 2023, 2:19 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 4: Does Israel need a defense treaty with the United States?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and Zman Israel editor Biranit Goren discuss pros, cons, and likelihood of the Israel-US Mutual Defense treaty, as well as Yesh Atid’s new primaries
By ToI Staff
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