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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 627

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MK Shelly Tal Meron leads the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 19, 2025, 8:46 am
Israeli political figures receive threatening phone calls, apparently from Iran
Caller, speaking in Hebrew, tells recipients to run for shelter, vows Iran will destroy Israel; among those targeted, Religious Zionism and Yesh Atid officials
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, April 28, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 5, 2025, 7:39 pm
Haredi ‘national alert system’ provides warning of IDF operations against draft dodgers
‘The State of Israel wants to destroy the Jewish religion,’ argues hotline chief; disrupting enforcement may constitute ‘obstruction of justice,’ says ex-chief IDF defense counsel
By Sam Sokol
Head of The Democrats party Yair Golan, head of National Unity party Benny Gantz, head of Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and head of Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2025, 3:32 am
Liberman urges opposition parties to draft own version of Haredi enlistment bill
Lapid says ‘Zionist parties’ will meet next week to discuss the issue; Golan says he is on board; former PM Bennett also invited to join effort, but hasn’t yet responded
By Sam Sokol
(L) Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset on May 16, 2022 and (R) Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 19, 2025, 11:47 pm
Liberman files police complaint against ex-chief rabbi for encouraging draft dodging
Yisrael Beytenu party head accuses former Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and other leading rabbis of violating the law by urging yeshiva students to ignore enlistment orders
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fourth from right, addresses ministers at a special cabinet meeting in Nahariya, December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
May 4, 2025, 7:57 pm
Government approves controversial legislation regulating top officials’ salaries
Ministerial Committee for Legislation backs bill on condition that ministers, MKs do not receive raises; Smotrich calls to cut ‘excessive salaries’ of senior judges
By Sam Sokol
Opposition Yair Lapid at a press conference in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2025. (Yesh Atid)
May 4, 2025, 6:43 pm
Lapid: AG must take ‘decisive action’ against Haredi draft evasion organizations
Those behind hotlines instructing yeshiva students to ignore enlistment orders ‘should be treated as criminal offenders,’ says opposition leader
By Sam Sokol
Opposition Leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 20, 2025, 10:11 pm
Lapid warns ‘crazy incitement’ against Ronen Bar could lead to ‘political murder’
‘Silence your ministers,’ opposition leader pleads with Netanyahu, whose office reportedly pressured the ousted Shin Bet chief not to file a statement to the High Court
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jews study at the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 8, 2025, 4:17 pm
Does the 2025 state budget encourage Haredim to evade IDF service?
Critics charge that allocating over NIS 1 billion in yeshiva funding incentivizes draft evasion, while Haredim complain they are being ‘slandered’ and ‘delegitimized’
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (to his right) and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to remake Israel's judicial appointments process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 12:11 pm
Knesset passes law greatly boosting political control over appointment of judges
Legislation changing composition of Judicial Selection Committee approved 67-1 after opposition lawmakers boycott final vote. ‘Collapse of the last brake on democracy,’ says Yesh Atid
By Sam Sokol
War cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)
March 3, 2025, 6:59 am
Eisenkot said seeking center-left party union in next elections, may want to lead it
With his relationship with party chief Gantz souring, Haaretz says National Unity MK is talking to Opposition Leader Lapid, Democrats head Golan for bloc to counter ex-PM Bennett
By ToI Staff
Israelis cast their votes at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 25, 2025, 12:22 am
Study finds ‘consistent recovery’ in Likud’s prospects as voters return to PM’s party
As of December 2024, 54% of voters of Netanyahu’s ruling party planned on supporting it in the next election, according to Israel Democracy Institute
By Sam Sokol
Opposition MK Karin Elharrar arrives to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 17, 2025, 2:42 pm
Opposition MK Elharrar says judicial system needs professionals, not politicians
Opposition’s representative on the Judicial Selection Committee accuses Justice Minister Yariv Levin of seeking ‘authority without responsibility’
By Sam Sokol
Head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz and head of Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid in a joint press conference at the Knesset. 6 November 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 31, 2025, 11:47 am
Netanyahu’s offer to Lapid and Gantz: Early elections in a year’s time
PM wants opposition leaders to back his government through the hostages’ release, in exchange for holding early elections one year after the last captive returns
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Yesh Atid party head Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, right, speaks at a joint press conference with (R-L) National Unity party head Benny Gantz, The Democrats party head Yair Golan, and Yisrael Beytenu party head Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 6, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2024, 4:54 pm
‘An illegitimate PM’: Opposition appeals to Likud MKs not to back Gallant’s ouster
Defense minister’s removal was ‘an act of insanity by an incompetent prime minister,’ says Lapid, as Liberman warns Netanyahu also preparing to fire attorney general
By Sam Sokol
Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid leads a meeting of his Yesh Atid faction at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 14, 2024, 2:22 pm
Lapid warns civil servants they must oppose ‘laundering’ of state funds for Haredim
Opposition leader announces team to spearhead opposition to 2025 budget and to moves to pay benefits to ultra-Orthodox despite legal restrictions imposed by High Court ruling
By Sam Sokol
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