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Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yitzhak Yosef’s embrace – and Eisenkot's effort to distance himself from it – reflects Israel's shifting political landscape.

|ByHERB KEINON
Amid reports that the Shas Party could be willing to sit with him in government, Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot did not rule out that option entirely. Here, Eisenkot attends the Sagi Laws for Equality Confrence at the Peres Center in Jaffa earlier this week.
President of the Supreme Court Isaac Amit arrives for a hearing on petitions alleging flaws in the legislative process of the Communications Bill at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 13, 2026.

High Court names nine-justice panel to hear petitions on law halting arrest of haredi draft dodgers

The dispute comes after a succession of increasingly forceful High Court judgments on inequality in military service and the government’s failure to enforce the existing draft law.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Attorney General of Israel Gali Baharav-Miara attends a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7.

Netanyahu coalition passes controversial law weakening attorney-general's authority

The bill passed in its final second and third readings by a 65-51 vote and is considered to be one of the key pieces of legislation that the coalition has been pushing to pass.

|ByKESHET NEEV, SARAH BEN-NUN
Israel Elections: A polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021.

Election season in Israel: Important dates to note before voters head to the polls - explainer

Election season in Israel has officially begun, and the 25th Knesset will become the first time since 1988 that elections have been held after a full four-year term.

|BySHIR PERETS

Netanyahu delays Palestinian statehood vote to ensure passage

Ministers from Netanyahu's Likud Party, as well as from the Religious Zionist Party (RZP) and Otzma Yehudit, criticized the language, as it did not rule out a Palestinian state in general.

FEBRUARY 19, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
A child waves a Palestinian flag as Muslim scholars take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, organised by supporters of the Islamic Group in Lebanon and Hamas, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 29, 2023.

Relatives of Gaza hostages storm Knesset panel

One woman held up pictures of three family members who were among the 253 people seized in the cross-border Hamas rampage of Oct. 7 that triggered the worst fighting in decades.

JANUARY 22, 2024ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Relatives of Israelis who have been held hostage by Hamas terrorists since October 7, storm a parliamentary committee session demanding that the lawmakers do more to try to free their loved ones, in Jerusalem January 22, 2024

‘Don’t be afraid to attack Tehran,’ Iranian activist tells Knesset

A Knesset forum event saw guest speakers from Israel and overseas discuss the situation in Gaza amid Israel’s war against Hamas – including anti-Iranian regime activist Vahid Behashti.

JANUARY 3, 2024ByJOSH ARONSON
The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear - opinion

Being left-wing involves, inter alia, seeking peace and believing in humanism, the welfare state, and a mixed economy. There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear.

DECEMBER 11, 2023BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
LABOR PARTY leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a news conference in Tel Aviv last week. Michaeli announced that she won’t seek reelection as party leader and will not run for the next Knesset.

Is Barkat preparing to run against Netanyahu for Likud leadership?

The former Jerusalem mayor has met with Likud activists and told them that he would not support Netanyahu again and that the party needed to see a change.

DECEMBER 5, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Nir Barkat

New law makes it illegal to fire evacuees, hostages, and their families

A new Knesset legislation passed prevents employees from firing those unable to work because they are evacuees or families of hostages.

NOVEMBER 27, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
The assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023

Israel's forensic center at 10-15% level of manpower compared to West

Conditions at the Institute of Forensic Medicine are pathetic and inadequate to cope with ordinary work, not to mention the current disaster.

NOVEMBER 15, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Dr. Nurit Bublil, head of the DNA laboratory in Israel’s National Center for Forensic Medicine, stands next to a blood-stained baby's mattress, Oct. 16, 2023

War is not the time for slogans - opinion

Imagine a person – for convenience let us call him Issy, short for Israel – who faces a challenging medical problem. 

NOVEMBER 1, 2023ByTOVA HERZL
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference in Tel Aviv, last Saturday night. Replacing a suit, white shirt, and tie with a black open-necked shirt is a political act, meant to convey a message, according to the writer.

Israel sorely needs reliable information on judicial reform effects - analysis

Eight months into Israel’s toxic debate over the judicial overhaul plan, it is emerging that in some cases honest information is being kept from the public and the decision-makers.

AUGUST 15, 2023ByHERB KEINON
Anti-judicial reform demonstrators protest against the judicial reform in Haifa, on July 20, 2023.

Law Committee holds last session before reasonableness bill reservations

The reservation amendments will be voted on by the committee, and if rejected added to the bill during final reading votes at the Knesset.

JULY 16, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee leads a committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on July 4, 2023.