Tag: MK

Two attacks on two elected Israeli officials in two days but what a difference in the response by police!

Lawmakers across spectrum uphold ban keeping Balad MK Hanin Zoabi out of the Knesset.

A law is on the table to strip parliamentarians of their status and citizenship if they back and endorse terrorism -- as Balad MK Hanin Zoabi has.

MK Moshe Feiglin, head of the Likud's Manhigut Yehudi faction, has joined the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

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.

"This is not an instantaneous plan, it's a plan for a generation."

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.

"It is inconceivable that deans of yeshivas would lie knowingly and sign for their students as if they're present full time in the yeshivas, while in reality they're not there."

The newly married MK made a decision to go custom.

Tzipi has a lot more important things to celebrate now!

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."