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 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett informs the country that he will not seek reelection, at a 2022 press conference at the Knesset.

Bennett, Yossi Cohen vying to head Israel's right-wing after Netanyahu

   Police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, on February 24, 2024

Protesters demanding elections complain of police brutality in Tel Aviv

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold up photographs of their abducted family members, outside the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, October 26, 2023.

Shin Bet exposes Iranian cyber espionage targeting Israeli hostage families

 Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023.

Israel's Labor largely unaffected after Michaeli's resignation, election poll shows

 Israelis protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 4, 2023.

Jarring voices of internal division rise again - analysis

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023.

Israel's political identity crisis: Right divided, left reevaluating

By NIR KIPNISS
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli Minister of Justice Yariv Levin during a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023.

Judicial Selection Committee to convene for first time this year

 Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on October 26, 2023.

Lapid calls for new Likud-led gov't without Netanyahu, extremists

 OUSTED US House speaker Kevin McCarthy walks back to his office after a motion to end his leadership passed on Tuesday.

Israel and the US are both divided nations - opinion

 SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut is flanked by other justices at the High Court hearing on the reasonableness standard law, last week.

Gov't: High Court is destroying Israeli democracy with incapacitation hearing

 Prime Minis4er Benjamin Netanyahu and leader of the Likud party speaks with Miki Zohar during a Likud party meeting in the Israeli parliament on January 25, 2016

Likud to expel activist who told Ashkenazim to burn in hell

 Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on March 30, 2023.

'Banana republic': Right-wing activists protest High Court's top justice

Anti-judicial reform demonstrators protest against the judicial reform in Haifa, on July 20, 2023.

Israel sorely needs reliable information on judicial reform effects - analysis

 Newly appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara seen during a welcome ceremony for her in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022.

Knesset abused power to help Netanyahu, A-G charges in High Court letter

 The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is located in Jerualem.

Is Israel taking a page out of the Hungary and Poland playbook? - analysis

 Israeli lawmakers such as MK Simcha Rothman (L) and opposition leader MK Yair Lapid (R) are seen at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee amid debates surrounding the reasonableness standard and mass protests against judicial reform, in Jerusalem, on July 11, 2023.

Law committee votes on reasonableness bill changes after marathon debate

 RESERVE SOLDIERS, veterans, and activists protest against the intention of some reservists to refuse to serve, as part of the protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv earlier this year.

Israeli reservists call for unity and political transformation - opinion

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference about the judicial reform following warnings from many economic experts.

Political divides in Israel run too deep and need a reset - comment