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'Mocks voters': Tally Gotliv blasts 'despicable' Likud decision to reserve slot for Israel Katz

Posting on social media, the Likud lawmaker said the defense minister was "terribly afraid of the primaries' results," slamming what she called a "despicable step that mocks Likud voters."

MK Tally Gotliv speaking in Knesset May 25,2026.
GADI EISENKOT, head of the Yashar party, speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Yashar takes lead over Likud as Arab parties projected to receive 10 seats - poll

Voters casting ballots in Israel's 25th Knesset election

Netanyahu strengthens bid for prime minister, Likud overtakes Yashar ahead of election - poll

Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett.

Eisenkot keeps top, gains support for PM role as uncertainty grows in security, politics - poll


Women’s voices will be catalysts for change - opinion

As the DNC in Chicago highlighted the powerful voices of Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey, and more, the contrast in Israel’s political landscape revealed a critical gender imbalance.

 The writer speaks during a committee discussion in the Knesset about the demand for equality in Israeli politics.

Israel to hold annual commemoration of October 7 events amid deep divisions - opinion

Israel's new annual commemoration of October 7 has sparked controversy, highlighting deep national divisions as differing views on the events persist.

 TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Miri Regev holds a news conference to address the issue of the planned state ceremony commemorating the October 7 massacre, and the controversy surrounding it, in Jerusalem last week.

Smotrich advances extra-budgetary war funds despite Finance min professional warning

Finance Minister Smotrich seeks approval for a NIS 3 billion fund to cover war expenses, sparking internal tension over Israel's budget management.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the the The 10th Katif Conference for National Responsibility. August 5, 2024.

What will Israel’s right-wing camp look like in the next election?

The spell that Israel’s longest-serving prime minister has cast on Israeli politics for two decades seems to have ended.

 THEN-PM Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Gideon Sa’ar in the Knesset in 2022. Could the two join forces to form a new right-wing party?

Coalition leaders begin summer recess with political gains, but without hostages - analysis

Stuck in the middle of these political vicissitudes are the families of the 115 remaining hostages, dead and alive.

 Israeli minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir attends a conference called "Israel's return to the Temple Mount", at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on July 24, 2024.

Ben-Gvir 'totally failed' to curb 'internal threat of Arab Israelis,' Smotrich says

Smotrich said the "internal threat of Arab Israeli's" could not be ignored as he described what he viewed as a multi-pronged Iranian effort to counter Israel.

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

The Israeli couple who started a NYC protest movement

“I think what this conflict has shown is that the Israeli expat community in New York has a place within the broader Jewish community.”

 Omer Lubaton-Granot, left, and Shany Granot-Lubaton, right.

'Haredim must remain haredim': Israeli lawmakers debate IDF haredi draft

Knesset begins discussions on controversial haredi draft exemption bill.

 Yuli Edelstein in Knesset debate on Haredi draft bill, 18 June 2024

Knesset set to begin haredi draft bill debates Tuesday, clashes over rabbinical appointments

MKs Sa'ada and Gotliv made headlines again on Monday after they announced that they would vote against a second controversial bill, known as the "Rabbi's Bill."

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against attempts to change government policy that grants ultra-Orthodox Jews exemptions from military conscription in Jerusalem February 26, 2024.

Knesset passes preliminary bill designating UNRWA terrorist organization

The same bill, which comes in light of evidence suggesting UNRWA employees' links to Hamas, will abolish the immunities and privileges gifted to UNRWA employees.

 A Palestinian man waits outside of the UNRWA headquarters building in Gaza City on April 6, 2013.