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Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir announces his party won't attend Knesset votes as long as he's not included in security discussions, May 3, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir in spat over response to Gaza terror

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The latest rocket barrage from the Gaza Strip sparked intra-coalition fighting on Wednesday between the Likud Party and one of its more right-wing partners seeking greater influence over policy in the fight against terror. Israeli...
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at the 74th anniversary Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem on May 4, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Cabinet to consider creation of ‘national guard’ under Ben-Gvir

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A proposal to create a national guard force under the auspices of Israel’s National Security Ministry will be put before the weekly Cabinet meeting for approval on Sunday, according to Israeli media reports. Israeli Prime...
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Feb. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ben-Gvir to run anti-incitement task force to counter Palestinian violence

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he has appointed Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir to lead a task force to fight Palestinian incitement. Joining Ben-Gvir at the task force will be investigators,...
Fatah terrorists at a ceremony welcoming a released Palestinian prisoner at the Balata refugee camp outside Nablus, Oct. 27, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Palestinian prisoners to Ben-Gvir: ‘Change our conditions and blood will be spilled’

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Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails sent a letter to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warning of bloodshed if he changes their living conditions. “If they touch our conditions—blood will be spilled,” the letter said, according...
Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir at the launch of the party's election campaign in Jerusalem, Feb. 15, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

UN data points to rise in illegal building demolitions under Ben-Gvir

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Israeli demolition of illegal Arab construction has risen sharply under Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, according to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Between Jan. 1 and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the scene of a deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem, Jan. 27, 2023. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel’s national security minister seeks fivefold increase in gun permits

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on Tuesday to push through a fivefold increase in weapon permits in the wake of last month’s Palestinian terrorist attack that killed seven people at a synagogue...

‘Israel is an independent country’: Ben-Gvir vows to return to Temple Mount

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed on Wednesday to continue visiting the Temple Mount, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jordan’s king that he would uphold the status quo governing interfaith...
Israeli Jewish men put on tefillin at the entrance to Carmel Market in downtown Tel Aviv on Feb. 10, 2017. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Former Meretz leader Gal-On compares Ben-Gvir to Hitler

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Former Meretz Party leader Zehava Gal-On on Wednesday compared Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to Hitler, posting to social media a picture of him with his arm raised and captioning it “Heil Kahane.” It...
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu with Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich and other party leaders at the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, Nov. 15, 2022. Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu on coalition partners: ‘They are joining me, I’m not joining them’

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Israeli-Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday to ensure that all members of his prospective government will act responsibly, saying that the buck stops with him because his political partners are joining him and...
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Levin’s election as Knesset speaker clears the way for ‘Deri, Ben-Gvir Bills’

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The Knesset is due to vote this week, or next week at the latest, on two bills considered highly controversial: the so-called “Deri Bill,” aimed at enabling the chairman of the Shas Party, Aryeh...