David Amsalem

'It will lead to civil war': Minister Amsalem warns against imprisoning Netanyahu

Netanyhu's detention could lead to "physical confrontations between citizens," Amsalem emphasized.

 Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Likud MK David (Dudi) Amsalem during a faction meeting, November 19, 2018.
 High Court of Justice President Esther Hayut and the other Supreme Court justices are seen at a hearing over petitions against the reasonableness standard law, in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2023.

High Court ruling keeps Postal Company chairman in office

 MK Dudi Amsalem reacts during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2022.

Israel's Government Companies Authority head resigns in political dispute

 MK DAVID AMSALEM addresses the Knesset plenum during a debate last month.

David Amsalem slams protesters, Ashkenazi Israelis in Knesset


Likud MK: I said to trample Leftists, not jail them

The Knesset Ethics Committee fell apart before complaints were filed alleging that MK David Amsalem (Likud) called to imprison left-wingers.

 Likud MK David Amsalem being escorted out of the Knesset plenum on October 4, 2021.

Could it happen in Israel? - comment

The question entered my mind while I watched the events evolve on CNN and Fox News on Wednesday, and continues to haunt me.

What exactly of what happened in Washington could be transposed to the current Israeli reality? Pictured: Supporters of US President Donald Trump during a ‘Stop the Steal’ protest outside of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, last week.

Likud MK David Amsalem’s plenary performance

Amsalem was arguing that it is not the Right that is inciting its members to attack the Left, the courts and the legal system, but the Left that is responsible for the incitement in the country.

MK DAVID AMSALEM arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24.

Outrage in Likud after Blue and White MK calls Likud 'black'.

"If you want to call it right and left, call it right and left. If you want to call it black and white, call it black and white. They are black, we are white."

FORMER MOSSAD deputy chief Ram Ben-Barak says the qualities of a Mossad ‘warrior’ is his or her individual intuition, ability to cope with adversity and play multiple roles.

Netanyahu appoints Amsalem as new communications minister

Meanwhile, the Likud's bond with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu party was challenged in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday.

David Amsalem

Likud member apologizes for calling Benny Gantz 'autistic'

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, who has an autistic child, slammed Coalition Chairman David Amsalem (Likud), saying, "for him, being my daughter is a curse." Lapid has an autistic child.

David Amsalem (L) and Benny Gantz (R)

Likud members blast ex-police chief's forecast of Netanyahu's indictment

Likud coalition chairman tells Alsheich "to go home and shut up."

Former police commissioner Roni Alsheich and Likud coalition chairman David Amsalem in war of words over Netanyahu corruption charges

Terror victims protest Pay-to-Slay bill's delay

A final vote which would have passed it into law on Monday was postponed at the request of coalition chairman David Amsalem.

A Palestinian prisoner, convicted of security offences against Israel, looks out of his cell at Nitzan jail

Coalition chair warns haredi parties of elections if enlistment law fails

“There are parties in the Knesset which are sustained by two things: war on Shabbat and war on the haredim.”

COALITION CHAIRMAN David Amsalem shouts during a stormy session of the Knesset Interior Committee on Tuesday about law enforcement investigations into corruption cases, with Police Insp.-Gen. Roni Alsheich (right). (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)

New Likud bill could impact potential Netanyahu sentence

The bill would prohibit the State Attorney from appealing sentences of under 10 years, for crimes like property offenses, bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

COALITION CHAIRMAN David Amsalem shouts during a stormy session of the Knesset Interior Committee on Tuesday about law enforcement investigations into corruption cases, with Police Insp.-Gen. Roni Alsheich (right). (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)