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Itamar Ben-Gvir
President Joe Biden, March 18, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
May 9, 2024, 9:47 am
President Biden threatens to halt arms to Israel over Rafah invasion
Right-wing lawmakers and ministers reacted harshly to Biden's ultimatum, with National Security Minister Ben-Gvir accusing the president of 'loving Hamas'
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Attendees at an event promoting Arab-Jewish shared society in Israel earlier this month. (Eliyahu Freedman)
January 12, 2024, 9:48 am
Police deny permit for antiwar rally in Tel Aviv
Organisers from Stand Together and Women Wage Peace will appeal to Supreme Court
By Eliyahu Freedman (JTA)
Palestinians inspect the demolished family home of Saleh al-Arouri, in the West Bank village of Arura, near Ramallah, on October 31, 2023.(FLASH90) via JTA
November 8, 2023, 5:51 pm
Opinion: A war on multiple fronts
As the war deepens in Gaza, so the dangers are growing of another front opening up in the West Bank, says Richard Miron, a former BBC reporter who was based in Israel
By Richard Miron
Tens of thousands of Israelis protesting against Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed changes to Israel's judiciary
October 20, 2023, 5:20 pm
OPINION: We must stand with Israel and stand for justice
'The authoritarian aspirations that prompted forty weeks of mass protests have not disappeared,' writes David Davidi-Brown, CEO, New Israel Fund
By David Davidi-Brown
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (C) at the scene of the crime after 7 people were killed in an armed attack in Jewish settlement at East Jerusalem. About 7 people were killed in an armed attack carried out by a Palestinian on a Jewish synagogue in Neve Yaakov settlement. (Credit Image: © Saeed Qaq/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
September 27, 2023, 11:35 am
Tel Aviv mayor orders police to prevent gender segregated prayer organised by minister
National Security Minister Ben-Gvir's planned prayer is the latest example of an unraveling constitutional crisis in Israel, in which ministers openly challenge the Supreme Court's power
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir. Photo by Dudu Greenspan/Flash90
September 27, 2023, 11:32 am
Shin Bet arrests 3 Palestinians, 2 Israeli Arabs planning to assassinate Ben-Gvir
The order to assassinate Ben-Gvir came from Iran, according to Shin Bet.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Israeli right-wing Knesset member Itamar ben Gvir (L) and Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset.
August 29, 2023, 11:47 am
Smotrich defends Ben-Gvir’s ‘Jewish rights supersede Arab rights’ comment
'My right, and my wife’s and my children’s right, to get around on the roads in Judea and Samaria (West Ban) is more important than the right to movement for Arabs,' Ben-Gvir said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
A large rally in Parliament Square in London organised by Jews in the UK who are anxious about Israeli ministers' efforts to subordinate Israel's judiciary to the government. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
August 1, 2023, 12:03 pm
New report: Wave of pessimism about Israeli democracy from UK Jews as ties ‘may fray’
Four-in-five British Jews disapprove of Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right bedfellows according to a new report released today by the Institute of Jewish Policy Research.
By Jewish News Reporter
Yigal Amir, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, appears before the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2004. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
August 1, 2023, 8:18 am
Right-wing Israeli TV channel boots pundit for calling to free Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin
Ari Shamai, who has represented Amir in legal proceedings, was interrupted by his fellow panelists as members of the audience applauded.
By Ben Sales (JTA)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visiting Temple Mount, 27 July 2023. Courtesy: Twitter.
July 27, 2023, 12:02 pm
Muslim countries condemn Ben-Gvir’s ‘storming’ of Temple Mount
The Temple Mount is "the most important place for the people of Israel. We need to return and display our governance (here)," National Security Minister Ben-Gvir said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to vote for the judicial overhaul bill in the Israeli Knesset, Parliament, on Monday, in Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. Netanyahu's government passed the key judicial law amid a national conflict. Photo by Debbie Hill/ Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News
July 25, 2023, 9:30 am
Netanyahu calls for ‘consensus’ on remaining reforms as opposition mourns for end of democracy
'The government of extremists and messianists cannot tear apart our democracy at noon, and in the evening send Netanyahu to say that he is proposing dialogue,' Yair Lapid said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Fauda TV poster image
July 11, 2023, 4:07 pm
Fauda star cancelled by Israel’s national security minister for past comments on IDF
Itamar Ben-Gvir has pulled the appearance at a conference of Hisham Suliman, who in 2015 said Palestinians had the 'right to fight'
By Jewish News Reporter
A rainbow from the water cannons over protesters at Ein Hemed Junction. Credit: Ilan Rosenberg
July 11, 2023, 3:02 pm
Israelis bring road traffic to a halt as protests against judicial attack continue
Thousands on the streets after politicians from the ruling coalition progress laws to subordinate Israeli courts to Israeli ministers
By Jewish News Reporter
Tel Aviv police commander Ami Eshed announces that he is stepping down from his position in a statement to Israeli press on July 5, 2023. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)
July 7, 2023, 2:00 pm
Tel Aviv police chief resigns: “I’m paying a heavy personal price for trying to avert civil war”:
Ami Eshed cited alleged interference from Itamar Ben Gvir in a move that brought thousands on to the streets in protest
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Palestinian-American Ameena Abu Awad from Chicago stands near a car was torched by Israeli settlers in Turmus Ayya, West Bank, on Friday, June 23, 2023. Hundreds of masked and armed Israeli settlers rampaged the peaceful village of Turmus Ayya on Wednesday, where they burned cars and homes of Palestinians in a revenge attack after four Israelis were shot by Palestinian gunmen. Photo by Debbie Hill/ Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News
June 28, 2023, 12:48 pm
Israeli president condemns settler rampage in phone call with Mahmoud Abbas
President Herzog stressed his 'unequivocal denouncement of the recent assault on innocent Palestinians by extremists.'
By Jotam Confino
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