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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Zvi Sukkot

MK Zvi Sukkot, right, visits the Temple Mount, April 17, 2025. (Temple Mount Administration/courtesy)
April 17, 2025, 4:20 pm
Lawmaker prostrates himself at Temple Mount, lauds ‘tremendous change’ in Jewish access
Religious Zionism’s Zvi Sukkot recalls arrest 14 years ago for doing the same thing; Minister Ben Gvir boasts of achieving new status quo
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting for his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2025, 10:33 am
Smotrich briefly resigns as minister in order to push rival party member out of Knesset
Religious Zionism chief slated to reclaim post following maneuver to oust Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer, amid spat between factions that ran on joint list in last election
By Sam Sokol
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (center) and MK Nissim Vaturi (right) attend a protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 27, 2025, 2:43 am
Lawmakers who broke into IDF base during far-right riot to be investigated by police
Two of the coalition members say they’ll refuse to answer summons; Eliyahu, Vaturi and former MK Sukkot echo conspiracy that ‘deep state’ targeting them, rail at attorney general
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir after the Knesset votes to approve his return to the cabinet, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2025, 2:07 am
Ben Gvir reappointed police minister as Knesset okays his party’s return to government
Far-right Otzma Yehudit rejoins hours before critical budget vote, raising Netanyahu’s majority to 68; Ben Gvir links move to resumption of Gaza war after he opposed hostage deal
By Sam Sokol
Then-National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 17, 2025. (Chaim GoldbergFLASH90)
January 19, 2025, 1:00 pm
Otzma Yehudit exits coalition over Gaza deal, blasting it as ‘victory for terrorism’
Chairman Ben Gvir tells Netanyahu he’s proud of party’s ‘significant achievements under your leadership’ but slams him for crossing ‘all ideological red lines’
By Sam Sokol
Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters who broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists suspected of abusing Palestinian terrorist detainees, in Kfar Yona, July 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv/AFP)
December 15, 2024, 10:04 pm
Report: Police ID 20 rioters who broke into IDF bases, but isn’t investigating them
Senior cops said to oppose prosecuting right-wing activists and MKs who stormed bases in July in response to detention of soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinian inmate
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
The Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 3, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 27, 2024, 6:36 pm
Seeing opportunity under Trump, some settlers hope to take over Tomb of the Patriarchs
Right-wing ministers and MKs believe time is ripe for scrapping a longstanding status quo dividing the Hebron holy site between Jewish and Muslim worshipers
By Shalom Yerushalmi
A house with a new reinforced room in Kibbutz Ga'aton, October 2024 (Omer Sharvit)
October 21, 2024, 9:30 am
In the absence of state funding, northern residents build their own shelters
With many in the north living in older homes without reinforced rooms, some residents spend small fortunes to construct fortified rooms as war with Hezbollah intensifies
By Omer Sharvit
The Neilah prayers, the final plea for atonement at the end of the Yom Kippur service, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 12, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
October 13, 2024, 2:37 pm
Defense officials said to accuse government of seeking Gaza annexation over hostage deal
Officers quoted saying that the recent expansion of operations in northern Gaza was done with little military planning or intelligence information
By ToI Staff
Singer-songwriter and reservist Idan Amedi attends a press conference following his release from Sheba Medical Center, in central Israel, after being seriously injured in the Gaza Strip, January 25, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 10:24 pm
Three coalition members back celebrities’ compromises in Oct. 7 memorial fracas
As tensions over dueling ceremonies continue to rise, MKs Illouz, Sukkot back move to stagger memorials, while lawmaker Saada favors replacing Regev with three bereaved women
By ToI Staff
People stand inside their damaged home, a day after an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit near Nablus in the West Bank that left a 23-year-old man dead and others with critical gunshot wounds, on August 16, 2024.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
August 16, 2024, 2:57 pm
White House leads international outrage over settler rampage, calls for accountability
Top EU diplomat to propose sanctioning government ‘enablers’ of Israelis who ran riot through West Bank village; settler leader claims attackers were outsiders
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Lamis al-Jaer, an Arab Israeli woman who was attacked after mistakenly driving into the illegal outpost of Givat Ronen in the West Bank on August 9 speaks to Channel 12, August 11, 2024. (Screen capture via N12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 11, 2024, 10:46 pm
Arab Israeli attacked by West Bank mob rejects far-right MK’s claim her car wasn’t Israeli
Husband of victim calls on Otzma Yehudit MK to apologize for justifying attack at Givat Ronen settlement outpost; Democrats MK calls incident ‘attempting lynching’
By ToI Staff
Far-right activists protest against the detention of nine Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of abusing a Hamas terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
August 5, 2024, 7:25 pm
A week on, no arrests or summonses against rioters who broke into military bases
Law enforcement officials silent on investigations, though Hebrew media report says police have begun collecting evidence
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters, after they broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists who are suspected of abuse of a Palestinian terror suspect detained there, on July 29, 2024 (Oren Ziv / AFP)
July 30, 2024, 3:41 am
‘Bordering on anarchy’: IDF chief sounds alarm after right-wing mob overruns 2nd base
Removed from Sde Teiman facility, activists storm Beit Lid base, where soldiers suspected of abusing Gazan are held; ministers and coalition MKs fuel and join hours of protests
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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