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Zvi Sukkot

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir at an IDF officers’ course graduation, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
August 27, 2026, 2:49 pm
Netanyahu ambushes IDF chief in effort to drag the military into his election campaign
A surprise summons by the PM of the IDF’s top brass for a situation assessment was designed to generate negative headlines against the military, after it warned him that the West Bank is boiling
By Amir Bar Shalom
Far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot smashes a Palestinian monument to 'martyrs' in the West Bank village of Madama, August 25, 2026 (MK Zvi Sukkot's office)
August 26, 2026, 8:34 pm
IDF took MK Sukkot to West Bank monument he smashed only after he threatened to go alone – report
Soldiers who were with the far-right lawmaker as he took sledgehammer to Palestinian memorial tell Army Radio they’re ‘stuck’ between Jewish and Palestinian terrorism in West Bank
By ToI Staff
Far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot smashes a Palestinian 'Martyrs Monument' in the West Bank village of Madama, August 25, 2026. (MK Zvi Sukkot's office)
August 25, 2026, 1:44 pm
Far-right MK smashes monument for Palestinian ‘martyrs’ during IDF-escorted West Bank tour
Zvi Sukkot, aides filmed wielding sledgehammers in Madama; army accuses him of acting ‘deceptively and manipulatively; incident triggers condemnations across political spectrum; PM: ‘Unacceptable’
By Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and Stav Levaton
A masked assailant is caught on surveillance footage hurling a brick at the glass doors of Channel 12's offices in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of July 28, 2026. (Channel 12 via X)
July 28, 2026, 2:11 pm
‘Someone will die’: Vandal smashes Channel 12 office doors again, leaves threatening note
Network’s Tel Aviv entrance hit with two bricks, message demands apology for coverage of alleged abuse of Palestinian at Sde Teiman army base; outlet accuses government of incitement
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students at Bar Ilan University, November 21, 2024 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 10, 2026, 9:46 am
Top universities come out against legislation to expand gender segregation in academia
Tel Aviv University head: ‘Real, tangible danger’; Hebrew University says legislation would cause ‘direct harm to academic freedom’; Bar Ilan says quality of research would be harmed
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot speaks to reporters during an uncoordinated visit to schools in Umm al-Fahm, sparking protest from residents on June 28, 2026. (Screenshot/X)
June 28, 2026, 9:48 pm
Arab city strikes as far-right MK Sukkot stages visit, pitches Israeli flag
Schools shut in Umm al-Fahm as ultranationalist Knesset Education Committee chair tours city under heavy police guard in uncoordinated visit, angering locals
By Charlie Summers
Workers keep flat the restored floor of the ancient theater built by Herod the Great between 23-15 BCE in the Judaean desert, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank, on December 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
June 2, 2026, 11:07 pm
Netanyahu said to halt progress of controversial West Bank and Gaza antiquities bill
Legislation to create new authority under the Heritage Ministry, opposed by IDF and many archaeologists, was pitched by sponsors as a step toward annexation
By Rossella Tercatin
Almog Cohen, of the Otzma Yehudit party, disrupts an event about settler violence, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 2, 2026, 7:48 pm
Coalition MKs disrupt Knesset event on violence against Palestinians, threaten attendees
Lawmakers steal food, assail slain hostage’s daughter-in-law, amid discussion of unchecked settler attacks; MK tells ‘terrorist’ colleagues they’ll be expelled from country
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University, in cooperation with the staff officer of archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. (Yodan Flaytman, staff officer for archaeology in Judea and Samaria)
May 24, 2026, 7:09 pm
West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill breaks Israel’s international obligations – legal official
As Knesset committee gears up to bring legislation for final votes in plenum, panel’s legal adviser warns it reinforces ‘creeping annexation’ claims; army also opposes it
By Rossella Tercatin
Israelis visit the site of the ancient village of Sebastia near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 22, 2019, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)
May 21, 2026, 3:02 am
West Bank, Gaza antiquities bill advances as government okays $86 million heritage plan
Knesset committee working to finish controversial legislation, which critics say would mark an unprecedented step toward annexation, for final votes in the plenum on Sunday
By Rossella Tercatin
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir attending a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 10, 2026, 6:36 pm
Zamir warns Knesset that military urgently needs more soldiers amid multifront war
IDF chief urges MKs to advance legislation enabling the enlistment of military-age ultra-Orthodox men, extend mandatory service from 30 to 36 months and amend reservists law
By Stav Levaton
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a court hearing on petitions against the appointment of retired judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to lead the probe into the Sde Teiman abuse leak, at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, November 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 1, 2026, 2:26 pm
Court orders state to justify law that allows firing teachers who support terror
Critics charge law empowers ‘political entities’ and deprives teachers of due process; Smotrich says judges ‘trampling Israel’s democracy and the security of its citizens’
By Sam Sokol
The compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 10, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 29, 2025, 5:28 pm
Visiting hours said extended for Israelis at flashpoint Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus
Pilgrims to holy site in Palestinian-run Area A of the West Bank, who visit at night under IDF protection, will soon be able to stay until 8 a.m., hold morning prayers – reports
By ToI Staff
MKs Limor Son Har-Melech (Otzma Yehudit) and Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) at the first meeting of the newly established 'Knesset Caucus for the Renewal of Settlement in the Gaza Strip,' June 18, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
December 19, 2025, 12:40 am
Far-right MKs Har-Melech, Sukkot set to take over Knesset panels vacated by Shas
Health and education committees were left inactive since Shas quit its coalition posts in October, in protest of failure to pass Haredi draft exemption law
By Sam Sokol
Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot protests against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers accused of severely abusing a terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
November 11, 2025, 4:44 pm
Police question MK Zvi Sukkot over Sde Teiman base break-in
Far-right lawmaker calls probe into last year’s riot a political effort to distract from Sde Teiman video leak, says he aimed to defend soldiers against ‘large and powerful system’
By Charlie Summers
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