Idit Silman

Prosecution challenges Netanyahu’s account of Walla’s importance in Case 4000

Prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh presses Prime Minister Netanyahu in Case 4000, questioning his stance on editorial influence and the importance of internet coverage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the courtroom at the Distrcit court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, October 28, 2025.
Activists gather at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, October 11, 2025.

Cabinet ministers, Gantz denounce booing of Netanyahu's name during Witkoff's Hostage Square speech

 View of the pitot spread out near the home of Likud MK Idit Silman. April 14, 2025.

Protesters spread pita in front of Likud MK's home in call for hostages' return

 Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman is seen at the handover ceremony replacing outgoing minister Tamar Zandberg, in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023.

Israeli arrested for slapping Minister Idit Silman in Rehovot


High Court greenlights Chikli, Silman and Balad to run in election

Petitioners said that they were disappointed in the ruling * Zehava Galon says that Chikli and Silman protected by corruption

 Yamina MK Idit Silman at the Knesset, April 25, 2022.

High Court hears petitions about if Silman, Chikli can run for Knesset

Central Election Committee head and High Court Justice Yitzhak Amit ruled that Yamina MK Silman was permitted to run with the Likud.

 Yamina MK Idit Silman at the Knesset, April 25, 2022.

Meretz files appeal to Supreme Court for not disqualifying Silman

Silman entered the previous Knesset as a member of Yamina, and then announced in April that she was leaving the coalition, ending its 61-member majority.

 Yamina MK Idit Silman at the Knesset, April 25, 2022.

Meretz petitions to block Silman from running with Likud

Meretz accused Silman of leaving the coalition after receiving offers from the Likud for the next election, which is illegal according to the election laws.

 Bennett reaches out to Netanyahu as MK Idit Silman looks on following a vote on the new coalition in the Knesset on June 13, 2021.

Netanyahu selects Idit Silman, Amichai Chikli for Likud list

Idit Silman, Amichai Chikli, and Moshe Saada have all been the subjects of Israeli political controversies during their tenures.

 Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu presents new additions to his faction's list ahead of the elections to the Knesset in November

Coalition delays Idit Silman's Likud switch as revenge for toppling government

If Silman wishes to run in a different party in the upcoming election, she will now have to resign from the Knesset.

 MK's Idit Silman and Nir Orbach arrive for a party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 16, 2022

Grapevine August 10, 2022: Casting blame

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 ABOUT TO unveil the plaque at the Gandel Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah-University Medical Center on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus are (from left) John Gandel, Pauline Gandel, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Jorge Diener, executive director of Hadassah International.

NGO to High Court: Order A-G to probe Idit Silman for switch to Likud

Likud MKs Yoav Galant and Mikki Zohar have given public interviews that Silman was promised a Knesset spot and a comfortable post with the Likud.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett speaks with MK Idit Silman in the Knesset in January.

Israel elections: No light at end of the political tunnel - analysis

If the last year has taught the country anything, it is that this state cannot be governed by that narrow of a majority.

 Benjamin Netanyahu is surrounded by Likud members at a preliminary reading at the Knesset of a bill to dissolve the parliament after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid moved to disband their government and hold an election, in Jerusalem, June 22, 2022.

The Lapid-Bennett experiment was a heroic success - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: This, in a nutshell, is what the approaching election – the fifth Netanyahu has imposed on the Jewish state in less than four years – will be all about.

 THE GOVERNMENT of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid was short-lived, but its leaders displayed a willingness to sacrifice, reconcile opposites, and jointly deliver results.