Jonathan Lis

Speaking at the Migron outpost, Reuvan Rivlin says Israel must find a solution to the controversy over disputed Palestinians lands that won’t target innocent settlers.

Bills have the approval of the coalition, but have prompted sharp criticism by human rights groups who claim they violate free speech.

Judges were divided in their stance on the Citizenship Law, with six justices voting to uphold it and five opposing it.

Series of laws, passed a week after symbols of the Holocaust were used by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, make it a crime to call someone a 'Nazi' or wear a yellow star as a means of protest.

Though the law aroused much controversy, it ultimately passed by a vote of 37-8, as the vast majority of opposition MKs didn't bother to stay to the end of the debate to vote.

Yisrael Beiteinu MK says no reason to continue working on the bill - a statement that bolsters suspicions the bill was meant mainly to keep Lapid out of politics.

Michaeli hurled a glass of water at MK Raleb Majadele while discussing sanctions against an Arab school principle who took his students to a human rights march in Tel Aviv last month.

Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs chair says attempts to outlaw 'Shecita' contain 'anti-Semitic' elements.

Benny Gantz says expects Bashar Assad's regime to collapse in near future and issue a blow to the Alawite community in Syria; Gantz: Assad is not like Gadhafi, he won't fight till last bullet.

Knesset ethics committee hands Yisrael Beiteinu MK Anastassia Michaeli an exceptionally harsh punishment; Michaeli apologizes for incident.

Bill prohibits the use of all forms of the word 'Nazi' or similar-sounding words; epithets associated with Nazism, the Third Reich or any of its leaders.

Lawmakers objecting to the bill say it is undemocratic, and runs contrary to Israel's international obligations to human rights.

Proposed amendment to Wiretapping Law draws fire from opposition lawmakers, legal advisers.

'The Palestinians are preparing the ground to blame the failure of the peace talks on Israel,' Lieberman tells the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Draft bill, which was introduced after Holocaust symbols were used in ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem last week, is expected to pass preliminary vote in Knesset.

Foreign Minister says Palestinians are prepared to blame failure of peace talks on Israel; second round of negotiations to be held in Amman Monday.

Argument erupts between Yisrael Beiteinu and Labor MKs following debate on the potential dismissal of an Israeli-Arab school principal who took students to a human rights march held in Tel Aviv.

His resignation from the Channel 2 news magazine was immediate; and as of Sunday night, it wasn't clear who would be hosting this Friday's edition.

The five are Akiva Hacohen, 27; David Eliyahu, 19; Meir Ettinger, 20; Effi Chaikin, 20; and Elad Meir, 35. All are residents of settlements; Ettinger is a grandson of the late Kach leader, Meir Kahane.

National Union's Uri Ariel says 'if a person who transfers information about IDF movements is a spy, then I am a spy'; Likud MK Ze'ev Elkin was found to having given right-wing activists information on IDF earlier Sunday.

Polls show that a Lapid-led independent party would garner 15-20 Knesset seats, and could potentially form a coalition that would rival Netanyahu's Likud.

Police Commander tells Knesset committee there were 228 cases of Israelis attacking West Bank security forces in 2011, but all were at the initiative of the attackers.

Rabbi Yona Metzger sends letter outlining the negative consequences of the 'Tzohar bill'; says legislation potentially disastrous.

More than 228 incidents of attacks by right-wing activists recorded in last year, with 65 indictments served on charges of account and vandalism, but police hard-pressed to gather sufficient evidence due to location of crimes.

Netanyahu says he is reviewing the matter further; political sources say bill may be scrapped.