Yitzhak Wasserlauf

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

September 10, 2023, 4:14 pm

Cabinet allocates NIS 20 million to encourage migrants to leave country

Funds earmarked to encourage ‘voluntary departure,’ week after a massive street brawl between Eritrean migrants injured over 170

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Negev and the Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf attends a lobby to strengthen the Galilee at the Knesset, June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

August 3, 2023, 4:37 pm

Minister to High Court: AG must explain why road-blocking protesters are not charged

Far-right lawmaker Yitzhak Wasserlauf seeks court order instructing Baharav-Miara to explain her ‘selective enforcement,’ and accuses her of ‘shirking her duties’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Jews pray at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, during Tisha B'Av, on July 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

July 28, 2023, 8:53 pm

Bahrain postpones plans to host Israeli FM, hours after Ben Gvir tours Temple Mount

Official justification given by Manama is scheduling conflict, but official says far-right minister’s visit to flashpoint site was actual reason

By Jacob Magid

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tours the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av, July 27, 2023. (Temple Mount Administration)

July 27, 2023, 11:29 am

Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, drawing rebuke from US, Jordan, Saudis

Minister, other lawmakers ascend to flashpoint site without incident; 16 Jewish visitors, 2 Arabs arrested over disturbances; record numbers said to tour site on fast day

By Michael Horovitz

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

July 9, 2023, 5:17 pm

Ministers castigate AG at cabinet meeting, demand protest crackdown, urge her removal

Baharav-Miara berated; ministers say she’s soft on anti-overhaul demos, backs protesters; AG: Hope gov’t isn’t seeking to overrule police, set arrest quotas; Gantz: A horror show

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

July 9, 2023, 2:26 pm

PM: Selective law enforcement at different protests is ‘fatal wound’ to democracy

Premier makes comments ahead of cabinet meeting with top police and legal officials on policy regarding police activity at rallies against judicial overhaul

By ToI Staff

New housing projects in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, June 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

June 26, 2023, 8:14 pm

Israel advances plans for 5,700 settlement homes, breaking annual record in 6 months

13,082 homes advanced thus far in 2023 are more than previous record of 12,159 homes, which were green-lit in 2020 when the more settler-sympathetic Trump was US president

By Jacob Magid and AP

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (right) of the Religious Zionism party talks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit in the Knesset plenum on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

June 18, 2023, 8:12 pm

Committee on Arab affairs to include 18 ministers and only one Arab official

Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are among the far-right members of the committee, which will devise policy on combating soaring wave of deadly crime in Arab community

By ToI Staff

Left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence holds an event in Tel Aviv on July 1, 2017 where testimonies of former soldiers stationed in the West Bank were read aloud in front of the Kirya military base. The sign reads: 'Breaking the silence until the occupation ends.' (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

June 2, 2023, 12:17 am

Likud bill targeting NGOs that receive foreign funding is ‘dead’ – senior US official

PM has ordered legislation be temporarily shelved and MK behind it says he’s not giving up, but Biden aide says Washington doesn’t expect it to be raised again

By Jacob Magid

In this file photo taken on March 11, 2009, Haredi men gather at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

May 29, 2023, 1:08 pm

At Haredi demand, contentious resolution will list Torah study among Zionist values

Ultra-Orthodox parties objected to original text, fearing their community might not get benefits if priority is given to those who serve in IDF; cabinet may vote on text this week

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

May 28, 2023, 2:13 pm

Netanyahu, Ben Gvir rip into AG over ‘Zionist values’ resolution as vote postponed

Baharav-Miara is opposed to measure that may allow for preferential treatment for Jews in housing planning and construction in the Negev and Galilee

By Jeremy Sharon

Members of the left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence hold images allegedly showing abuses by the Israeli military, during a tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 2, 2022. (Flash90)

May 27, 2023, 10:56 pm

Likud bill targeting NGOs’ foreign funding shelved amid international uproar

Proposed law that would radically limit donations to human rights groups pulled from ministerial agenda on Sunday, following outcry from allies including US, France, Germany

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid, Jeremy Sharon and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Members of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, including party leader and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as well as Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf hold a party meeting at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Evyatar, February 27, 2023. (Courtesy: Otzma Yehudit)

May 25, 2023, 2:49 pm

Far-right proposal saying gov’t policy must adhere to ‘Zionist values’ set for vote

Cabinet motion scheduled for Sunday asserts Jewish right to settle all ‘Land of Israel,’ including West Bank, seeks to better implement contentious Nation-State Law

By Jeremy Sharon

Jewish men pray as they exit the Temple Mount site on May 18, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

May 18, 2023, 12:43 pm

Cabinet minister and MKs visit flashpoint Temple Mount ahead of controversial march

Otzma Yehudit minister, lawmakers from PM’s Likud among hundreds of visitors to compound; Likud’s Bitan says Netanyahu could’ve told them not to go: ‘People have become extremists’

By ToI Staff

Young Jewish men hold Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 18, 2023, 8:44 am

Tensions ahead of contentious Flag March through Jerusalem Old City’s Muslim Quarter

3,000 police deployed; Ben Gvir said excluded from security preparations; police chief warns against terror incitement; rocket fire not expected, but concerns situation may spiral

By ToI Staff