"We believe that the entire matter of establishing a commission of inquiry should be addressed after the war ends," the government representative's said. The High Court of Justice discussed a petition ...

A man wearing a Meretz shirt desecrated tefillin at a Chabad stand in Netanya on Tuesday by holding them near his crotch, a video uploaded to social media showed. The Meretz party says that the man is ...

Tobias (Toby) Siegal is a breaking news editor and contributor to The Times of Israel. A 61-year-old resident of Netanya was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of offending religious sensibilities after ...

Hadash-Ta'al MK Aida Touma Suleiman posted on Facebook in memorial of terrorists killed by the IDF, calling them martyrs. Sometimes it seems that MKs from Arab parties in this country think that what ...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent. As by their very nature they cannot vote in Israel, Diaspora Jews are rarely a topic of intensive debate in ...

Israel's Religious Zionist Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich adds anti-LGBT MK Avi Maoz of the Noam Party to his list. Eighteen of Israel’s political parties handed in their Knesset lists to the ...

The Labor and Meretz parties announced Wednesday that they had agreed to sign a surplus vote-sharing agreement ahead of the November 1 Knesset elections, amid mounting pressure on the left-wing ...

The Labor and Meret party announce that they have signed a surplus vote-sharing agreement ahead of the November Knesset elections. A joint statement quotes Labor’s Ram Shefa and Meretz’s Michal Rozin ...

Zehava Galon, who chaired the Meretz Party in the past, was re-elected on Tuesday evening to the position of party chairwoman and will lead it in the elections to the 25th Knesset. After Galon, the ...

Zehava Galon clinches Meretz leadership, with challenger Yair Golan finishing in a realistic fifth spot in the left-wing party’s candidate lineup for November’s election. Outgoing party head Nitzan ...

Galon beats Golan in Meretz leadership race, Raz and Rozin jump into top three, pushing him down to fifth place, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz crashes out of the Knesset. Former Meretz ...