Itamar Ben-Gvir

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

His party Otzma Yehudit will instead meet in the southern city of Sderot

By JC Reporter

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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 *** ?????? ?? ???? ???? ????

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

1 min read

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Netanyahu pauses judicial reform after striking deal with Ben Gvir

By Josh Kaplan

1 min read

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 *** ?? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ??? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ????

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Ben Gvir threatens to quit coalition if judicial reforms halted

By JC Reporter

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(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)

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

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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

By Anshel Pfeffer

King Bibi has done the impossible: united Israel against him

From Meretz MKs to fomer Likud ministers; all sides joined the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms

5 min read

February 16, 2023 14:59

King Bibi has done the impossible: united Israel against him

By Mike Katz & Izzy Lenga

The Jewish diaspora must speak out against Netanyahu's reforms

Jewish Labour officers argue that Netanyahu's proposed reforms are of those who want to rig Israel’s political and judicial system to cling to power

4 min read

February 7, 2023 10:49

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Itamar Ben-Gvir

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

Ben Gvir threatens to quit coalition if judicial reforms halted

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

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