Knesset

Israel's Knesset hosts conference for International Women's Day

Stormy separate Knesset committee discussion over funding for a forum that combats domestic violence cut short

  Gaza hostage families protest on Ayalon highway on January 18, 2024

Brother of hostage: ‘I attempted suicide, you should have called me!’

Second-degree family members of hostages untreated, not recognized as terrorism victims, Knesset Health Committee finds.

Coalition MKs move to withdraw October 7 terrorists' right to public defender

Defendants detained for taking part in the October 7th massacre or for being an unlawful combatant won't have the right to a public defender.

Governmental effort to charge fee for psychiatric emergency room visits causes outrage

Protests sounded against the intention of the Health Ministry and the Treasury to impose stiff fees on patients going to psychiatric hospital emergency rooms.

Israel's housing crisis: 204,000 families struggle to afford rent

Data from a Knesset inquiry reveals the dire situation. Which cities are the worst hit – and what's being done?

Knesset debates extending service of IDF reservists

The debate coincided with a hearing in the Supreme Court about the legality of the haredi exemption from IDF service.

Former PM Ehud Barak calls on Israelis to 'besiege the Knesset'

The former prime minister criticized the inaction and failure of Netanyahu's government to take accountability, while calling for Israelis to "protest outside the Knesset day and night."

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