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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Yulia Malinovsky

Released Palestinian security prisoners (wearing gray) who were released from Israel's Ofer military facility in exchange for Israeli hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza, wave flags and chant slogans as they are paraded in Beitunia in the West Bank on November 24, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
November 5, 2024, 8:32 pm
Lawmakers advance bills cutting welfare benefits for convicted terrorists
Legislation would halt child allowances to parents of minors incarcerated for security offenses, cut off workplace injury compensation for non-resident terror convicts
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Boaz Bismuth at the Knesset's introductory session for freshman lawmakers, a day before opening session of the 25th Knesset, November 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 1, 2024, 3:46 am
Lawmakers behind UNRWA ban dismiss international criticism as ‘misplaced’
There’s ‘plenty of transition time’ for other groups to replace the UN agency for Palestinians, says Likud MK Illouz, adding that ‘our goal is not to stop the humanitarian aid’
By Sam Sokol
FILE: A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
October 29, 2024, 1:59 am
Knesset approves laws barring UNRWA from Israel, limiting it in Gaza and West Bank
Bucking global pressure, MKs overwhelmingly back legislation against UN Palestinian refugee agency over staffers’ terror links; PM’s office: Ready to work with world on Gaza aid
By Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid
A man carries a humanitarian aid package provided by UNRWA in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
October 25, 2024, 3:45 pm
Israel set to pass laws Monday that will heavily restrict UNRWA in Gaza, West Bank
MKs set to prevent UN’s Palestinian refugee agency from operating in Israel, close Gaza and West Bank access points to it, radically complicating its work there; US, UN, EU object
By Sam Sokol
FILE: A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
July 22, 2024, 10:16 pm
Lawmakers advance legislation to shut down Palestinian relief agency UNRWA
Bill would ban UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating in Israel, remove employees’ legal immunities, and brand it a terrorist organization
By Sam Sokol
MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 2, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
July 2, 2024, 11:38 pm
Knesset committee discusses trio of bills aimed at shutting down UNRWA
Proposed legislation would ban UN’s Palestinian aid agency from operating in Israel, remove employees’ legal immunities and brand it a terrorist organization
By Sam Sokol
Screen capture from video of a chart broadcast by Channel 14 alleging a tie between voting patterns and victimhood during the Hamas attack on Israel, May 29, 2024. (Channel 13)
May 30, 2024, 12:42 pm
Channel 14 report asserts being left-wing increased likelihood of being killed on Oct. 7
Outrage as pro-Netanyahu network asks if right-wing towns’ security teams were more effective at saving residents while examining ‘research’ on ‘Does political stance save lives?’
By ToI Staff
Families of young female surveillance soldiers killed on October 7 attend a hearing in the Knesset, January 9, 2024. (Sam Sokol)
January 9, 2024, 6:06 pm
Parents, MKs call for probe into IDF refusal to heed surveillance troops’ warnings
A investigation is needed ‘to bring the truth to light because nothing else can give us all rest,’ Eyal Eshel, whose daughter Sgt. Roni Eshel was killed on Oct. 7, tells lawmakers
By Sam Sokol
Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, right, head of the Special Committee for Oversight of the Israeli Citizens' Fund, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2023, 6:37 pm
Knesset okays stronger punishment for sex offenses motivated by terrorism or racism
Female Arab MK upbraids Knesset for ‘promoting racism on the backs of victims’
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Orthodox schoolgirls looking at posters in Beit Shemesh in June 2014. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
May 16, 2023, 8:08 pm
Beit Shemesh ad telling girls to play out of men’s view draws pedophilia accusations
Unsigned PSA aimed at ultra-Orthodox community runs in circular that once reportedly refused to publish safety advice because charities buying ad space ‘cooperated with Zionists’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah, the unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover, at the Aviv Matzah plant in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2019. (Flash90)
February 19, 2023, 4:30 pm
Bills to ban hametz, expand powers of rabbinic courts breeze through committee
AG comes out against proposal criminalizing bringing leavened goods into hospitals during Passover; groups representing ‘chained’ women oppose letting rabbis adjudicate civil cases
By Judah Ari Gross
Lawmakers from the opposition are ejected from the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 13, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 13, 2023, 11:08 am
First judicial overhaul legislation approved in committee amid ferocious opposition
Bill would let gov’t choose judges, make Basic Laws immune from court; Rothman: Gaps between sides surmountable; opposition MKs oppose measures with protest song, cries of ‘Shame!’
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Noam MK Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:18 am
‘Insanity, unreal’: Netanyahu slammed over deal with anti-pluralistic, homophobic MK
Politicians from outgoing coalition say Likud chief’s agreement to put Avi Maoz in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity is a ‘slap in the face,’ could ‘plunge Israel into the abyss’
By Michael Bachner
From left, Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai, Knesset Member Gilad Kariv, Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, and Immigration and Absorption Ministry Director-General Ronen Cohen speak at the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on February 28, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
March 1, 2022, 1:39 pm
Israel eases citizenship requirements for Ukrainians, but only for families of Jews
Lawmakers, some of them immigrants from the former Soviet Union, rail against Interior Minister Shaked’s seemingly unprecedented policy
By Judah Ari Gross
Workers at a drive-through testing complex in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 19, 2022, 11:23 am
Over 71,000 new cases as health officials mull scrapping quarantine for kids
Serious cases still rising but expert says Israel may be at wave’s peak with tens of thousands of undetected daily infections; finance, culture ministers announce aid for art world
By ToI Staff
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