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![]() Carrie Keller-LynnThe Times of Israel |
As pressure mounts for the parties to judicial reform talks at the President’s Residence to report progress after two months of stalemate, two...
A Likud bill to strip the Israel Bar Association of its licensing power, two weeks ahead of the professional guild’s most politically relevant...
Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Wednesday accused the opposition of pursuing a subversive agenda and blamed it for the impasse in judicial reform...
Opposition leaders on Wednesday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition and its plan to block judicial checks on political...
Judicial reform compromise talks resumed Tuesday at the President’s Residence, with opposition parties closing the day’s negotiations with...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Likud party on Monday that his government’s frozen plans for a radical shakeup of the judiciary are...
The Knesset’s largest opposition parties were showing cracks in their alliance Monday, each accusing the other of tearing the opposition apart over...
A government panel on Sunday shelved for at least a month a right-wing bill that would bar waving Palestinian flags on Israeli campuses, amid...
Far-right MK Avi Maoz has been granted the authority to exercise oversight over educational vendors in public schools, following a Sunday cabinet...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reaffirmed his intention to continue talks on the judicial overhaul at the President’s Residence,...
Grassroots organizers opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s plans have raised some NIS 50 million from donors since the...
Knesset lawmakers okayed state budgets for 2023 and 2024 in the wee hours of Wednesday, ending months of coalition bickering over funding priorities...
Looking to project political stability, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday thanked coalition partners for coming together to pass the...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich promised to boost funding for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students and their...
Twenty weeks into their sustained campaign against the government’s plan to siphon off judicial power, leaders for the national protest movement...
Thousands of Israelis took part in the Jerusalem Flag March on Thursday, with the highly controversial annual event again featuring racist chants and...
Part of Haredi party United Torah Judaism (UTJ) threatened Wednesday night to withhold its support for the crucial state budget, or even actively...
In its latest act of coalition destabilization, the far-right Otzma Yehudit party walked out of Knesset floor votes Wednesday in a bid to pressure...
Negotiators working to find a cross-partisan consensus on reform to Israel’s judiciary received a surprise guest on Tuesday: President Isaac Herzog,...
Reiterating his disapproval of the government’s proposed two-year, trillion-shekel state budget, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday presented...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich launched a verbal attack on Monday against the local authorities that are currently striking in protest of his plan...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday that a controversial nationalist parade will take place in Jerusalem on Thursday, including its...
Ministers from the far-right Otzma Yehudit slammed the proposed state budget on Sunday over dissatisfaction with the amount of discretionary funding...
Local governments across Israel are expected to go on strike starting Monday in protest against the coalition’s plan to transfer municipal tax...
Miryam Keren was in her kitchen when the warning siren sounded on Wednesday, making it to her safe room seconds before a rocket fell in her back...
The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to curb attorney general oversight over punishments for publicly supporting terror organizations and waving...
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is counting this week’s operation against Gaza terror groups as a political win, but his partners are...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was not diminishing its offensive against Gaza-based terrorists Wednesday, pushing back against claims...
Coalition figures intensified their attacks on far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir Monday who has been boycotting Knesset and...
The Knesset will reopen for its summer session on Sunday, ending a four-week recess that did little to calm national tensions surrounding the...
Thursday night’s 200,000-person show of force in support of the government’s plan to weaken judicial checks on political power underscored the...
Despite an event drawing nearly 15,000 participants, a corner of Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua Park was uncharacteristically quiet on Monday night as...
Given an English-language platform in front of American Jewish community officials, protest leaders said Monday they believed that the fundamental...
About 2,000 North American Jews made their way to northern Tel Aviv on Sunday evening for the opening of the Jewish Federations of North America’s...
The arrival of over 3,000 North American Jewish community leaders to Israel for a large conference has afforded groups protesting the government’s...
A dozen grandmothers boarded a bus Thursday to make their way from an assisted living facility in Israel’s center to Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square....
Reza Pahlavi, prominent Iranian opposition leader and son of Iran’s deposed monarch, expressed hope that Israel and Iran will return to being...
Waving Israeli and Likud flags, some 20,000 protesters marched in support of the government’s judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv on Thursday, the...
The coalition on Wednesday postponed work on a bill that would allow public servants to keep money gifted to them for the purpose of covering medical...
Vocal Supreme Court critic and Likud MK David Amsalem was appointed a second minister within the Justice Ministry, with the Knesset ratifying his...
Tens of thousands of government supporters demonstrated in Jerusalem on Monday in favor of its judicial overhaul and against its planned halt, shortly...
Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon on Sunday slammed a bill aimed at reinstating Shas chief Aryeh Deri in his ministerial post after the High Court...
The Knesset is set to pass a law that will enable hospitals to set policy banning or restricting the entry of leavened food, or hametz, ahead of next...
With only days until the Knesset breaks for its April recess, the coalition is sprinting to close core elements of its judicial overhaul amid...
Addressing his government’s judicial shakeup for the first time since he was given legal cover to do so Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul continued on Thursday night, with thousands attending a controversial march through the...
The Finance Ministry provided the first glimpse of the state’s 2023-2024 budget on Thursday, presenting the nearly trillion shekel two-year proposal...
The Knesset committee pushing a contentious bill that will give the government control of most judicial appointments as part of its efforts to...
Coalition lawmakers narrowly voted down a bill Wednesday that would have mandated an electronic monitoring system to track domestic abusers, drawing...
Despite concerns raised by the Attorney General’s Office, the Knesset was expected to pass Wednesday or Thursday a law that would protect Prime...