Itamar Ben-Gvir

Israeli Judicial Reform

Why elite Israeli combat pilots are refusing to serve until judicial reforms are abandoned

Some of the highest ranking members of Israel's Air Force are refusing to fly, one pilot explains why

By Josh Kaplan

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Why elite Israeli combat pilots are refusing to serve until judicial reforms are abandoned

The damage caused to Palestinian homes and cars by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Turmus Aya, on June 21, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** חיילים כניסה לכפר חייל חיילים שומרים כפר תורמוס עיא

By Anshel Pfeffer

Ben-Gvir’s ‘sweet children’ are headache for security chiefs

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Head of the Otzma Yehudit party Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters as the results of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters, November 1, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ?????? ?? ???? ???? ????

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Ben Gvir boycotts Knesset in protest against 'weak response' to Gaza rockets

By JC Reporter

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Judicial reform protests

What's the latest on Israeli judicial reform?

By JC Reporter

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Israeli cabinet approves plans for Ben-Gvir 'militia'

By JC Reporter

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Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem on March 27, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** הפגנה ירושלים רפורמה הפגנ ימין

Judicial reform protests

Far-right groups branded ‘terrorists’ after 53 arrests

By Daniel Ben-David

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Netanyahu pauses judicial reform after striking deal with Ben Gvir

By Josh Kaplan

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Ben Gvir threatens to quit coalition if judicial reforms halted

The national security minister screamed at Benjamin Netanyahu during a Knesset debate

By JC Reporter

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March 27, 2023 10:23

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir seen at the entrance to the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ?? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ??? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ????

By Mordechai Beck

Israel’s religious Zionists live in a world that ended generations ago

The leaders of the ultra-nationalists are creating a backlash, the effect of which is now being seen on the streets every week

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March 16, 2023 12:49

(L to R) Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish power) party, and Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Religious Zionist Party, attend a rally with supporters in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on October 26, 2022. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Call for Board of Deputies to ban contact with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

Amos Schonfield, deputy for Masorti Judaism, who proposed the motion says: 'We have to use our influence to show where we stand'

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

March 16, 2023 10:22

Call for Board of Deputies to ban contact with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir

Ben-Gvir clashes with AG over reversed decision to sack Tel Aviv police chief

'I no longer trust the attorney general,' the national security minister, himself a lawyer, tells the judges

By JC Reporter

1 min read

March 13, 2023 17:35

Ben-Gvir clashes with AG over reversed decision to sack Tel Aviv police chief

Former police chiefs warn Ben-Gvir's rhetoric could lead to third intifada

In a letter to Netanyahu, the former police bosses warn against demolishing Palestinian homes during Ramadan

By Jenni Frazer

1 min read

March 8, 2023 18:07

Right-wing politician MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen after visiting the Temple Mount, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 31, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** איתמר בן גביר משטרה הר הבית ירושלים העיר העתיקה

Ben-Gvir fury after police contradict claim that protesters plan to ‘murder’ him

Opposition leader Yair Lapid called Ben-Gvir a liar and a 'clown'

By Jenni Frazer

1 min read

March 6, 2023 17:48

Ben-Gvir fury after police contradict claim that protesters plan to ‘murder’ him

By Anshel Pfeffer

For Netanyahu, the problem with his coalition is it’s just too cohesive

The majority won by the Likud and like-minded parties meant that the partners maximised their demands and the PM was forced to accept most of them

5 min read

March 2, 2023 13:56

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) sits next to Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri during a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on January 8, 2023. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ben-Gvir assassination plot foiled as violence erupts at Tel Aviv protest

A resident of east Jerusalem has been arrested for the alleged plan to kill the far-right minister

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

March 1, 2023 11:40

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to bystanders as he walks to the site of a reported attack in a settler neighborhood in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. - At least seven people were killed in a shooting outside a synagogue in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on Friday January 27, 2023, with the gunman killed at the scene, police and medics said. "Earlier this evening at around 8:30 pm (1830 GMT), a terrorist arrived at a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov boulevard in Jerusalem and proceeded to shoot at a number of people in the area," a police statement said. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

UK has no plans to engage with far-right Ben-Gvir, says Foreign Secretary

Mr Cleverly rejected the 'apartheid' descriptor for Israel, but criticised settlements in the West Bank

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

February 24, 2023 17:13

UK has no plans to engage with far-right Ben-Gvir, says Foreign Secretary

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Itamar Ben-Gvir

Why elite Israeli combat pilots are refusing to serve until judicial reforms are abandoned

Ben-Gvir’s ‘sweet children’ are headache for security chiefs

Ben Gvir boycotts Knesset in protest against 'weak response' to Gaza rockets

What's the latest on Israeli judicial reform?

Israeli cabinet approves plans for Ben-Gvir 'militia'

Far-right groups branded ‘terrorists’ after 53 arrests

Netanyahu pauses judicial reform after striking deal with Ben Gvir

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