By David Isaac
“It is a great privilege to come here again for the first time as a member of the Knesset,” said Likud MK Dan Illouz.
Just a week after elections, a number of new and old MKs visited Kever Yosef (Joseph's Tomb) in Shechem on Tuesday night.
The caller pretended to be an Arab policeman who is a pariah to the left.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
MKs toured the Ayalon Prison compound in Ramla
The majority of the patients are in light condition, 10 are in moderate condition and five are in serious condition.
State prosecutors will also ask the court to attach a clause of moral turpitude to the confession.
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MK Amsalem is working on a bill to prohibit the investigation of a prime minister in office on violations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
MK Oren Hazan proposed on stage...
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MK Ghattas will be allowed by law to appear at the Knesset Committee and argue his case, following which the committee would vote on whether or not it recommends a vote at the plenum on removing his immunity.
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The Balad party on Sunday morning revealed that party politburo member Nibin Abu Rahmoun has also been interrogated by police.
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'It's well known that when a coalition MK votes against the government line he knows he's going to pay a price.'
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MK Bezalel Smotrich said, 'Apparently, had Netanyahu been in charge instead of Ben Gurion, we would not have had a state. Ben Gurion had courage, he established a state against all odds.'
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The Likud MKs who, unlike Begin, had actually been elected by Likud voters, all voiced their enthusiastic support for the Regulations Act and urged Netanyahu to promote it.
By Irwin Cohen
For Americans, baseball provided an escape, and Jewish Americans followed the exploits of their favorite teams and of the relatively few Jews who wore baseball uniforms.
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A Jewish young man with hardly any influence, who was convicted last March of possessing a document that was never disseminated, was given two years in prison.
By Matan Peleg
At the same time that MK Livni condemns those who seek to convict her and other Israeli officials while abroad — she does the exact opposite in Israel.
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Transport Ministry officials threatened that "if it turns out Gafni is operating out of political considerations we will view it seriously and act accordingly."
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"You don't represent me," Aharish told Ghattas, "nor the hundreds of Arab children who are taking part in coexistence projects sponsored by Shimon Peres, while you are busy spreading hatred, incitement and distance between nations."
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MK Ghattas wrote that "Peres is covered from head to toe in our blood, and so we don't hasten to contribute to the collective tribal festival of grief and loss."
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Amsalem suggested that the clash over the railroad works over the past two Shabbat days was mostly about politics.
MK Brosh said, “I hope that the Zionist Union will support any government decision to legalize the structures.”
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"Part of the tradition in the Palestinian Authority is that the same people who at nighttime deal with harming Israel and worked hard to annihilate the State of Israel, during the daytime speak a lot about brotherhood among the nations, peace, and so forth."
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The new law is all but tailor-made for the inequities of one MK — the vociferous Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List).
By Shalom Bear
Amsalem plans to run in the Bayit Yehudi primaries.
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"For the past two years we have been receiving messages from Mekorot each morning telling us that there is no water in the pipes."
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Amsalem demanded statistics on the level of congestion in each prison.
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On Monday afternoon Prime Minister Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are expected to announce a reconciliation agreement between their two countries.
Now that's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one.
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Each year, the printed collection of signatures, bound together in a book, is presented to a different MK.
Glick recited the Hebrew blessing “shehechiyanu” – which is said on special occasions and new experiences.
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The committee discussed possible courses of action in light of a recent study that showed Israelis in general have a low sense of personal security.
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Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.
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Glick also said "there should be clear instructions as to how to conduct a wedding ceremony, and just as you don't have to have a rabbi at a circumcision, under the chupah you don't need a rabbi either."
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"The learning of the Holocaust lessons in the state is done selectively and manipulatively."
One of the three Arab MKs who visited the families of terrorists last Tuesday attempted to justify the actions of the terrorists on Palestinian television yesterday.
By Shalom Bear
The law allows government ministers to quit the Knesset and be replaced with new MKs who can concentrate on their legislative jobs.
MK Hanin Zoabi of Balad and Baruch Marzel of Yachad are back in Israel's election race.
By Rachel Levy
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to be retracting his condemnation of the terror kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens.
Hotovely's family Facebook page was filled with "mazel tovs!" in numerous languages on Monday morning in response to the announcement.
The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.
My problem is with the part of the law that requires 61 signatures in order to submit a no-confidence measure in the Knesset, which effectively neutralizes the no-confidence option.
The newly married MK made a decision to go custom.
Tzipi has a lot more important things to celebrate now!
By Adam Levick
The legal impunity Jamal Zahalka will continue to enjoy – the rights of citizenship, and special rights as an MK, afforded him by the very state whose existence he incites against – represents stubborn proof attesting to the continuing vitality of Israeli democracy.
Ezra, who was serving as a Kadima MK at the time of his death, was born in Jerusalem in 1937. He served in the IDF's Nahal Paratrooper brigade, and joined the Shin Bet in 1962. Over a career that spanned 33 years, he rose to become the Deputy head of Israel's domestic intelligence organization. Throughout his political career he variously served as Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Environmental Protection.
In our time we must always take advantage of the opportunity for a second chance to revive our identity as Jews in Eretz Yisrael, for without the identity of Israel as a Jewish state, we are truly at a spiritual and physical loss.
Shalit announced that he would talk with them if they agreed to it, and he would even shake the hands of Gilad's kidnappers, also saying he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he was a Palestinian. He insisted that PM Binyamin Netanyahu was not solely responsible for the release of Gilad, and charged that the PM only released his son because the polls showed that 70-80% of the public supported the deal.
Lieberman is accused of receiving "millions of dollars" between 2001 and 2008 while serving as MK and government minister.
MK Anastassia Michaeli throws a cup of water at MK Ghaleb Majadle after he calls her "fascist," tells her to "shut up."