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Miri Regev and Moshe Ben Zaken, right, at the Likud party headquarters on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 25, 2023, 9:37 pm
After initial rejection, Regev gets OK for ex-Likud operative to be ministry chief
Transportation minister faced legal pushback to candidacy of Moshe Ben Zaken as ministry’s director-general, appointing him acting deputy instead for past 6 months
By ToI Staff
Lawyers vote in the Israel Bar Association election at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 21, 2023, 8:38 pm
Hours after losing battle for Bar Association, Likud moves to void its power
Ministerial committee to discuss legislation to strip group of licensing power, and possibly to end its participation in key Judicial Selection Committee
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
File: Likud MK Nissim Vaturi, May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2023, 10:37 am
‘You shoot him’: Likud MK appears to suggest executing pilots who protested overhaul
Nissim Vaturi rails at air force members who threatened to skip training over judicial shakeup plans, says ‘people like this need to be kicked in the ass and get out of the army’
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks at a conference in Airport City on March 20, 2023. (Flash90)
June 16, 2023, 7:33 pm
Renegade Likud MK says she’ll petition High Court over sanctions against her
Judicial overhaul backer Tally Gotliv blasts ‘unreasonable’ decision by coalition leadership, invoking an argument that she’s trying to prevent the court from using in future cases
By ToI Staff
Election posters hung by the Blue and White party show its candidate Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hebrew slogan reading 'Netanyahu cares only for himself,' ahead of the 2020 elections. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)
June 16, 2023, 8:11 am
Poll shows Likud-led coalition down 10 seats, losing majority, if fresh vote held
A second poll finds an even sharper drop of 14 seats for the government; Gantz and Netanyahu neck and neck as preferred PM
By ToI Staff
MK Tally Gotliv seen outside the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 15, 2023, 9:45 pm
Likud’s Gotliv sanctioned, booted from committees after causing Knesset chaos
Coalition imposes punitive measures against MK, who earlier asserted she would not be punished for refusing to remove her candidacy for Judicial Selection Committee; she’ll appeal
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Tally Gotliv peeks from behind a curtain as she casts her vote for candidates to the Judicial Selections Committee, at the Knesset on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 15, 2023, 3:52 am
Coalition members accuse Likud ‘traitors’ after opposition wins judicial panel seat
Internal rift erupts as overhaul stalwarts rage against Netanyahu, accusing him of instructing MKs to vote for Yesh Atid’s Karine Elharrar on Judicial Selection Committee
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Eliyahu Revivo attends a special committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2023, 1:53 pm
Likud MK threatens to stop voting with coalition after his Shin Bet bill is nixed
Eliyahu Revivo wants security agency involved in fighting Arab crime despite objection by AG and Shin Bet; his brother, Lod mayor, threatens to recruit MKs to bring down government
By ToI Staff
Tiberias Acting Mayor Boaz Yosef on the city promenade, May 15, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
June 7, 2023, 6:59 pm
Knesset advances bill that would allow Tiberias mayor to run in October
Acting Mayor Boaz Yosef needs to sit out an election cycle before running to lead his city — unless fast-tracked Likud-sponsored bill changes the rules of the game
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Defense Minister Benny Gantz and then-outgoing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Knesset plenum, June 13, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)
June 6, 2023, 11:44 pm
Gantz rules out joining gov’t to secure Saudi normalization, would offer safety net
Former defense minister says he could back deal from the opposition, with Riyadh expected to make demands for concessions to Palestinians opposed by PM’s hardline allies
By Jacob Magid
Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a Knesset Constitution Committee meeting, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 7:20 pm
Likud said to pull draft bill proposing to neuter Israel Bar Association
Netanyahu reportedly halts legislation because it would impact contentious judge selection panel; MK Milwidsky on Tuesday requested to pull offending clause
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
File: An election campaign billboard for the Blue and White party depicting Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu hangs on a street in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)
May 30, 2023, 11:42 pm
Poll: Gantz restores lead as Netanyahu loses post-Gaza war bump
Survey finds National Unity would be Knesset’s largest party, winning 28 seats, compared to Likud’s 26; opposition seen winning 63 of the 120 Knesset seats, with coalition on 53
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during a debate, in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2023, 10:57 pm
Netanyahu accuses overhaul protesters of hounding MKs in the name of free speech
Premier charges activists constantly switching message to ensure there’s ‘not one moment of peace’; Likud MKs said demanding boost in security, ban on protests near their homes
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism head Bezalel Smotrich (standing) with United Torah Judaism leader Yitzchak Goldknopf at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 2:29 pm
Netanyahu gives UTJ nod to pay NIS 250m to yeshiva students, ending budget boycott
As final budget votes begin in Knesset, government secures critical support for two-year, trillion-shekel plan
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
From right to left: Likud MKs Amit Halevi, Ariel Kallner and Dan Illouz with former MK Shuli Mualem on the Temple Mount on May 18, 2023. (Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 20, 2023, 9:42 am
On the way up to the Temple Mount, Likud is becoming Otzma Yehudit
Most ruling party members have always shunned visits to the holy site, both for security and religious reasons, but a new breed of Likud MKs are following the lead of the far-right
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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