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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting alongside Likud MK Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset on June 13, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
July 5, 2026, 5:14 pm
Joining legion of Likud castoffs, Edelstein may not yet be clear of Netanyahu’s pull
Splitting from the party that already quit him, the former Knesset speaker becomes the latest senior Likud politician to strike out on his own, though breaking free may not be so simple
By Tal Schneider
Workers are seen at a construction site in Katzrin, in the Golan Heights, January 6, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 16, 2026, 3:30 pm
Government approves 5-year, billion-shekel plan to develop Golan, give it its 1st city
Minister says plan will turn Katzrin into a city and ‘bring in thousands of new families’; in meeting with local leaders, Netanyahu touted ‘massive development surge’
By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
December 22, 2025, 8:27 pm
Netanyahu: Politically appointed Oct 7 inquiry must probe Oslo deal, Gaza disengagement
Ministers lend government backing to a commission of inquiry whose members could be chosen by the coalition, not the Supreme Court president, as under existing law
By Jeremy Sharon, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar after the latter announces his reentry into government, September 29, 2024. (Chaim Tzach/GPO)
August 13, 2025, 9:31 pm
Ruling Likud party approves merger with Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope
Five years after leaving Netanyahu’s party due to ‘cult of personality’ around the prime minister, former rival declares it’s ‘good to return home’
By Sam Sokol
Israeli right-wing protesters gather on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip near the border fence on July 30, 2025, during a rally to mark 20 years since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
July 30, 2025, 8:48 pm
22 ministers and lawmakers demand settlement group be allowed to tour northern Gaza
Itamar Ben Gvir, Miki Zohar, Shlomo Karhi and May Golan all interested in taking part in mission to scout out locations for new settlements in ‘living heart of the Land of Israel’
By Sam Sokol
Charred objects are scattered on the ground, in Moshav Netiv Ha'asara in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 17, 2023, in the aftermath of Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
March 24, 2025, 5:45 pm
Deal on funds for Ofakim, Netivot paves way for approval of post-Oct. 7 revival law
NIS 5 billion out of NIS 19 billion in state funds to rehabilitate, develop, communities within 7 kilometers of Gaza was frozen, as towns farther away lobbied for funds
By Sue Surkes and Stuart Winer
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leads a faction meeting of his New Hope party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 13, 2025, 10:08 pm
Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope signs agreement to rejoin Likud in next elections
Foreign minister, who left ruling party after failed 2019 leadership bid, thanks PM for ‘putting past behind us’; his deputy Ze’ev Elkin is also expected to run again with Likud
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Gadi Mozes, second from left, with his sons and daughter after being discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2025. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2025, 11:17 am
‘Let’s get to work’: Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes calls on Nir Oz members to rebuild
In a letter to kibbutz residents, Mozes, 80, says he believes that with hard work the community can ‘return to being a warm and vibrant home’
By Amy Spiro
A man surveys damage caused during the recent war in Metula, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 2, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/ Flash90)
February 24, 2025, 12:43 pm
As northerners sent home, hard-hit Metula says more time needed to heal war wounds
With main street a construction site, the school in ruins and most residents still reticent to return, Mayor David Azoulay wants the government to wait until July to reopen the city
By Diana Bletter
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 9, 2025. (GPO/Screenshot)
February 10, 2025, 10:33 am
At rowdy meeting, cabinet delays for 3 months decision on state inquiry into Gaza war
Netanyahu, ministers clash with attorney general, who supports setting up probe of Oct. 7 Hamas invasion; PM said to call Shin Bet chief ‘a bureaucrat,’ insist war not over yet
By ToI Staff
Security forces speak to residents inside a cordoned-off area near a house hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ein Hamifratz near Acre in northern Israel on October 19, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 5, 2025, 9:43 pm
Israel lays out NIS 3.4 billion plan to get northerners back home in March
Internally displaced for more than a year, returning residents will be eligible for assistance grants of up to NIS 25,360 per adult and NIS 12,680 per child
By Sharon Wrobel
A man unloads construction materials in front of a damaged building in Metula, November 27, 2024. (David Cohen FLASH90)
December 22, 2024, 10:38 pm
NIS 12 billion over 5 years: Israel’s plan for rebuilding the north comes into focus
While Minister Ze’ev Elkin claims, ‘We’ll build even bigger in the future,’ head of the Northern Contractors Organization counters: ‘There are simply not enough workers available’
By Zev Stub
Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks during a Knesset committee hearing on December 16, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 16, 2024, 5:12 pm
Hostage’s mother to minister: ‘I will take law into my hands’ if son doesn’t return alive
Einav Zangauker appears to threaten Ze’ev Elkin during Knesset committee hearing, saying ‘My son is alive but you are continuing to abandon him,’ demands deal to free all hostages
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Hamas West Bank leader Zaher Jabarin, the chairman of the group's consultative council Mohammed Ismail Darwish, known as Abu Omar Hassan, and senior official Khaled Mashaal receive condolences during the funeral of the terror group's top leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on August 2, 2024. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
November 29, 2024, 6:55 pm
Ministers to discuss law barring ‘terror-supporting’ Qatar from mediating with Hamas
Bill, proposed by MKs from Likud and far-right parties, says Doha is ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’; 2nd bill would let defense minister sanction workers in ‘terror-supporting’ groups
By ToI Staff
Incoming Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, shakes hand with his predecessor, Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2024, 11:48 am
Knesset approves Katz as defense minister, Sa’ar as FM after Gallant’s firing
Opposition leader Lapid calls on Katz to show ‘backbone’ and oppose Haredi draft exemptions
By AFP and ToI Staff
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