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 Head of the Finance committee MK Moshe Gafni speaks during a discussion on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 12, 2024.

Israel's Knesset begins marathon debate on new 2024 budget

 Gideon Sa'ar speaks in Tel Aviv. March 12, 2024.

Gideon Sa'ar to break away from National Unity, demands to join Israel's war cabinet

 IDF troops operate in Gaza. March 10, 2024.

IDF general: Military, political leaders are leading Israel to disaster

By ITZHAK BRIK
 Victorious: Moshe Lion celebrates his Feb. 27 mayoral win.

What the key players think of Jerusalem's municipal elections

 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

 Former Meretz MK Yair Golan

Yair Golan launches campaign to lead Labor, Left

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at stairs with waste on it in Mount Meron, northern Israel, following the Mount Meron tragedy. April 30, 2021.

Mount Meron disaster tragic, but also a cautionary tale

 Benny Gantz meets with US VP Kamala Harris in Washington, DC. March 4, 2024.

Does Gantz's trip to the US position him to replace Netanyahu?

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest outside the city of Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024

'We need Torah scholars': Haredi paper slams secular Jews over IDF draft

 IDF troops on patrol in Gaza, February 20, 2024

As Gaza war rages on, Israel focuses on petty politics over Washington

 A PROTEST presentation in which hostages are portrayed as apologizing that they were kidnapped, and accusing that the government views their plight as a distraction and interference, is held at the Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv, last week.

How the hostages' plight has been politicized

By DANA FAHN LUZON
 The Ruth lookout in Kiryat Tivon.

For first time in Israel, a trans woman has been elected as city council member

 An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli selects his ballot paper on the day of Israel's general election in a polling station in Jerusalem November 1, 2022.

Tuesday's election was a reminder of what clean politics could look like

 Campaign posters are seen at a voting booth in Haifa on the day of the municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Municipal elections in Haifa: Who will locals elect in Israel's 3rd largest city?

 IDF soldiers at a military polling station.

How are IDF soldiers, Israeli prisoners voting for municipal elections?

By SHLOMI HELLER , AMIR BOHBOT