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 IDF reserve soldiers sign a statement saying they will not continue to do reserve military service as part of a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2023.

'Obsessive, systematic smear campaign': Brothers in Arms sue Otzma Yehudit MK for defamation

By ANNA BARSKY , Avraham Bloch
 Religious IDF Israeli soldiers pray during a training of the Ultra Orthodox Unit at the Givati Brigade near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, September 27, 2017.

Giving credit where its due: The bravery to break party lines and stand alone

Inside the Knesset building.

Contentious legislation poised for revival in Knesset winter session

 The stage at the Preparing to Settle in Gaza festival near Be'eri, October 21, 2024.

Ministers call for Gaza resettlement during Sukkot rally

 Ohad Tal, 2022.

MKs from coalition, opposition call for strikes on strategic Iranian assets

 MKs discuss expediting conversions for those serving in the IDF during the ongoing war with Hamas, November 13, 2023.

20 MKs demand Netanyahu cancels new security co-op with Palestinian Authority

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ministers and MK's attend a plenum session for Israeli Knesset's 75th birthday, in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 24, 2024.

Why was it a tumultuous week for Israel's coalition?

 Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seeks every legal means to increase state support for Channel 14, without any constraints on some of its more disturbing content, the writer complains.

Knesset passes controversial television bill, closes plenum until October 28

 Demonstrators outside Motta Gur base in Beit Lid, where detained IDF reservists are being interrogated, July 29, 2024.

Protests over abuse claims at Israeli bases shows lack of respect for the law

 UTJ MK Yisrael Eichler points at a fellow lawmaker in the Knesset plenum.

MK Yisrael Eichler says VP Kamala Harris poses 'global danger'

 Families whose children were killed by a Hezbollah rocket launched react before the funeral in Majdal Shams, northern Israel, July 28 2024

Politicians flock to Majdal Shams, angering some residents

The Knesset plenum on July 24, 2024.

Labor MKs propose Nation State Law amendment after Majdal Shams attack

The Knesset plenum on July 24, 2024.

Series of controversial laws pass in legislative blitz ahead of summer recess

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at a conference called "Israel's Return to the Temple Mount," at the Knesset on July 24, 2024.

'I am the political echelon': Ben-Gvir encourages Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

 IDF soldiers operating in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2024.

State Attorney Amit Isman defends investigation of soldiers for Nukhba terrorist's murder

 MK Simcha Rothman and Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin are seen in the Knesset in Jerusalem, last summer. The writer calls their current tactics ‘a smokescreen.’

Israel's judicial reform issue has slowly burned out of the public eye

By YOSSI TATIKA
 MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on the ultra-Orthodox draft law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 24, 2024.

MK Eisenkot: We've never been closer to hostage deal, held back by Netanyahu

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton attends the Knesset House Committee, December 28, 2020

'Government is failing in every aspect': Former MK Yifat Shasha-Biton leaving politics