Israel changes clocks back to winter time
Daylight savings time ends Sunday as clocks fall back at 2 a.m.
View ArticleMeretz selects Knesset candidates for January elections
Latest polls predict 5-6 mandates for the left-wing party, doubling its current strength
View ArticleIncumbents grab top spots on Meretz list
Arab Israeli Issawi Freij takes fifth position, with party expected to garner 5-6 seats in next Knesset
View ArticleLabor, Kadima, Olmert, Livni back government’s air assault on Hamas
Hawks demand strikes on Hamas political leaders, far-left says assassination of terror chiefs will only yield escalation
View ArticleBar-Ilan student booted from class for refusing to wear a kippa
University slammed for regulation requiring males enrolled in mandatory Jewish studies courses to don a head-covering
View ArticlePoliticians accuse Netanyahu of taking revenge on Channel 10
Opposition slams prime minister as bankrupt station’s board postpones the dismissal of all employees by a few days
View ArticleChannel 10 petitions High Court against Netanyahu
News station, opposition say prime minister may have ‘personal’ motives for blocking deal to save failing outlet
View ArticleElection frenzy hits Israeli university campuses
Politicians and activists — from the left, right and center — look at students as future leaders and potential political power shifters
View ArticleLeft rips into Jewish Home candidate for coming out against single-sex unions
Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan says legal recognition of gay marriage would destroy the Jewish people
View ArticlePolitical party weds gay couples
Meretz holds nuptials on steps of Tel Aviv rabbinical court to protest Jewish Home candidate who dissed same-sex marriage
View ArticleMeretz MK sought answers on ‘Prisoner X’ 3 years ago
Nitzan Horowitz sent a letter in June 2010 warning against keeping a person in ‘complete isolation and total anonymity’
View ArticleWedding near Knesset highlights plight of non-Orthodox nuptials
Ceremony presided over by Reform rabbi and Meretz MK to protest likely failure of new gov’t to institute non-Orthodox marriage
View ArticleDaphni Leef says she isn’t running for mayor of Tel Aviv
Less than a week after intimating that she’s considering her candidacy, social protest leader says she has other plans
View ArticleMeretz MK said set to run for mayor of Tel Aviv
Nitzan Horowitz to compete against incumbent Ron Huldai, Hadash parliamentarian Dov Khenin, and social activist Daphni Leef
View ArticleMeretz MK announces run for Tel Aviv mayor
Nitzan Horowitz will compete against incumbent Ron Huldai, who seeks a fourth term
View ArticleTel Aviv ordered to ensure businesses are closed on Shabbat
Until it changes its own laws, Supreme Court judges say, municipality must properly enforce them, not issue trifling fines for offenders
View ArticleKnesset’s liberal flank lauds US decision on same-sex unions
‘Marriage, creating a family — these are basic rights of every human being,’ says Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz
View ArticleKnesset committee okays daylight savings through October
Deputy minisater warns decision will force religious people to choose between prayer and work
View ArticleKnesset okays extending daylight savings through October
Nitzan Horowitz praises move unlinking clock change from Yom Kippur; ultra-Orthodox legislators vote against measure
View ArticleElectoral reform bill moves forward, but PM to reconsider support
Arab MKs stage dramatic silent protest in Knesset plenum over law that would raise electoral threshold beyond the current showing of any Arab party
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