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Netanyahu halts meetings on haredi draft bill, sparking opposition fury

The first discussion to present the outline of the newly updated bill had been slated for Monday.

NOVEMBER 2, 2025|ByKESHET NEEV

MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, September 17, 2025.

MK Elazar Stern attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 26, 2024.

Guy Lerer, Channel 13 to pay NIS 410,000 in damages to Elazar Stern for defamation, court rules

The court emphasized that the impact of these defamatory statements was compounded by their timing, as Stern was a candidate for a prominent public role at the time.

AUGUST 29, 2024|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid seen with MK Elazar Stern at a press conference in Tel Aviv

Yesh Atid MK defies Lapid, calls for unity government with Netanyahu

Elazar Stern's faction leader and opposition head Yair Lapid said that a unity government with Netanyahu's Likud would "ruin the country."

AUGUST 14, 2023|ByTROY O. FRITZHAND, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks next to Head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with the opposition parties at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on June 28, 2021.

Likud-RZP agreement: IDF chief rabbi appointed by Sephardic chief rabbi – report

The IDF chief rabbi will be promoted in rank and will answer on halakhic matters to Israel's Rabbinate.

DECEMBER 25, 2022|ByELIAV BREUER

Historic anti-Pay for Slay bill passes into law

The law passed in its final reading by a vote of 87 to 15, with the support of MKs from every faction, except for Meretz and the Joint List.

JULY 2, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee votes on a bill meant to discourage the Palestinian Authority from continuing to pay terrorists

To waver or not to waiver on terrorism

Congress is trying to stop PA pay for slay, now it’s time for the Israeli government to get serious, too.

JULY 1, 2018ByYOSSI KUPERWASSER, SANDER GERBER

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during his meeting with Britain's Prince William in Ramallah, June 27, 2018

Victory begins at home

The Israel Victory Project’s new approach to the decades-old Israel Palestinian conflict has garnered support both in Israel and the US; on July 4, its ideas will be presented to the public.

JUNE 20, 2018ByNOA AMOUYAL

CONGRESSMAN BILL JOHNSON, one of the co- chairs of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus, signs the joint declaration with Knesset Israel Victory Caucus co-chairs MKs Oded Forer and Avraham Neguise, and Prof. Daniel Pipes (in the background), at a joint meeting of the CIVC and the KIVC in Congres

Bill to punish Palestinians for pay-for-slay scheme heads to final vote

“This bill fixes a historic injustice,” Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern, who proposed the bill, said. “This is a bill that will reduce terrorism.”

JUNE 11, 2018ByLAHAV HARKOV

Palestinian gunmen in Shuafat carry weapons during a funeral march for a Palestinian terrorist, shot dead by police after stabbing two Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City

Yesh Atid asks Court to change law so Gantz can run

The law, which was passed in 2007, has prevented IDF chiefs of staff and other generals from going straight from the army to the Knesset like many of their predecessors.

JANUARY 2, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN