Yuli Edelstein

Post-October 7, coalition more concerned with controlling the systems than addressing recovery

More than two years after October 7, the governing coalition continues to advance sweeping institutional reforms, while legislation addressing recovery, reserve burdens, and accountability lags.

A PLENUM session at the Knesset.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry a banner in Hebrew that reads, “to prison and not the army,” during a “million man” protest against military conscription, in Jerusalem October 30, 2025.

Netanyahu cancels statement on haredi draft bill as opposition slams legislation

MK Tally Gotliv attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in the Israeli parliament on October 27, 2025.

MK Tally Gotliv to replace ousted MK Edelstein in Foreign Affairs Defense Cm'tee

MK Avigdor Liberman attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 22, 2025.

'On the way to sovereignty': MKs react to preliminary passing of bill to annex Ma'aleh Adumim


Should Israeli politicians vote with their conscience over party? - opinion

Amid the battle cry of saving our democracy from what is called the autocratic or dictatorial endgame of this judicial reform plan, there is an ongoing argument about the very essence of democracy.

 MK YULI Edelstein (right) presides over a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at which National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefed committee members on the affairs of his ministry, last month.

US opposes Israeli bill to repeal Disengagement in northern Samaria

The Knesset approved the repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Law in its second and third readings.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israelis protest in front of UTJ's Moshe Gafni's house in Bnei Brak

Despite calls by Gafni to his supporters not to arrive and confront the protesters, dozens of Bnei Brak residents came to the scene.

 Protests in front of Moshe Gafni's house in Bnei Brak, March 14 2023.

Opposition rejects calls for judicial reform negotiations without preconditions

Opposition leaders call for dialogue in order to find common ground with proposed judicial reforms.

 Israelis who oppose the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul protest outside the home of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2023.

Israeli MKs from coalition, opposition call for judicial reform compromise

Those that signed it were Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon as well as two opposition parliamentarians from the National Unity Party Gadi Eisenkot and Chili Tropper.

 Israeli opposition MKs are seen putting on Israeli flags in the Knesset plenum ahead of a planned vote on judicial reform, in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023.

Edelstein, Elkin meet Zelensky, say Israel must give Ukraine defensive arms

“We must assist Ukraine in all areas where Israeli technologies, including its military ones, can help protect the civilian population," Edelstein and Elkin said.

 Israeli MKs Yuli Edelstein and Ze'ev Elkin seen meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

Israeli ministers to vote on reversing disengagement in northern Samaria

Once approved by the Knesset, the legislation would pave the way for the reconstruction of the four communities razed there that year.

 Israeli soldiers block the entrance to Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 28, 2022.

Netanyahu must raze Khan al-Ahmar despite int'l pressure, Likud MKs say

The High Court of Justice ruled in 2018 that the structures in Khan al-Ahmar could be razed but this never ended up happening.

 Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon visit the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023.

US must stop Israeli sanctions that undermine PA, Shtayyeh tells US envoy Amr

Edelstein told US Ambassador Nides that settlement building must continue and defended Ben-Gvir's visit to the Temple Mount.

 PA PRIME Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh attends a cabinet meeting.

Israeli settlement building must continue, Edelstein tells US envoy

The Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee chief also defended Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to Temple Mount last week.

 Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Yuli Edelstein (R) is seen meeting with Israeli Ambassador to the US Tom Nides, on January 11, 2023.