Jeremy Sharon

1 week ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

The new ministerial committee established by the government to provide a recommendation on firing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara postpones a hearing that had been set for Tuesday to hear her arguments against being fired. The government had been seeking to fire Baharav-Miara and approved a new method of firing her last week, but postponed the hearing following the outbreak of war with Iran. Baharav-Miara was pictured in a photo of a security cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Saturday night.

1 week ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

Three activists from the Madleen boat, which tried to break Israel’s blockade against Gaza earlier this week, are seeking to return home via Jordan, due to the ongoing closure of Ben Gurion Airport resulting from the current conflict with Iran. The activists were scheduled to be deported on Friday, but their flights were canceled due to Israel’s airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites in the early hours of Friday morning.

2 weeks ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

In rare public comments on X, Jonatan Urich, a close media aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, extols his boss for carrying out the unfolding attack on Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Urich is under criminal investigation for his role in two separate scandals, the leaked documents affair and the Qatargate affair, and has not posted anything on X since early January. “Ten years have passed since 2015.

2 weeks ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

Cabinet ministers and coalition MKs vowed to annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip at a conference of the ultranationalist Sovereignty Movement’s youth chapter, Noar Ribonut, in the city of Sderot on Thursday. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, and Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu all spoke out in favor of annexing the territory, with the latter seemingly calling for Israeli rule over Syria and Lebanon as well.

2 weeks ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

Six additional activists from the Madleen boat that sought to break Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza earlier this week were transferred to Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday to be deported from Israel. Both the Foreign Ministry and the Adalah civil rights organization confirmed that six more of the passengers were set to be deported on Thursday and early Friday, three days after their boat was intercepted by the IDF and towed to Ashdod.