Gilad Kariv

MK Kariv, Zulat Institute, Rabbis for Human Rights ask High Court to strike down death penalty law

A new petition to the High Court challenges Israel's controversial death penalty law, focusing on its impact in the West Bank and seeking urgent action to prevent its immediate implementation.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
MK Gilad Kariv pictured in the Knesset, January 26, 2026.
Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

'May God kill, destroy the judges,' Yitzhak Yosef denounces ruling restricting Western Wall prayers

Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef criticizes the High Court’s decision restricting Passover prayers at the Western Wall, calling the judges "heretics" and "Shabbat desecrators."

|ByAVI SOLOMON
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in a Knesset plenum about the death penalty bill, in Jerusalem. March 24, 2026.

Knesset panel advances death penalty bill for final readings, Ben-Gvir vows law will pass

The National Security Committee has been holding marathon discussions on the bill, which is expected to be brought for its final readings in the plenum next week.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Knesset committee status update on two years since young girl Haymanut Kasau's disappearance with her family, police, and lawmakers on Wednesday February 25, 2026.

'Tears have run dry’: Father pleads for Shin Bet to take action on Kasau investigation

“My daughter has been kidnapped for two years, and there is no new information about her. The tears in our eyes have run dry, and our hearts are bleeding,” said Kasau's father.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Let them eat cake: What's at stake with Israel's controversial Hametz law?

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Why are hospitals being targeted with a new law banning Hametz over Passover? How will it affect staff, and is there a halachic basis for it?

APRIL 1, 2023ByJOANIE MARGULIES
BURNING HAMETZ in Jerusalem before the start of Passover.

Grapevine February 24, 2023: Celebrating Kosovo’s independence

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: Fleur Hassan Nahoum, Gil Haskel, Ines Demiti and MK Boaz Bismuth.

Confidential meeting on judicial reform security impact set for Wednesday

Wednesday's session focused on a bill to limit judicial review to a full bench of High Court of Justice justices in full consensus, and an override clause.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
MK Simcha Rothman is seen gesturing amid a chaotic session of the Knesset Law and Constitution Committee in Jerusalem during a debate on judicial reform, on February 13, 2023.

Politicians will need approval to enter schools - Education Minister Kisch

Previous Education Minister Shasha-Biton called the move a 'giant step towards dictatorship'.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Likud MK Yoav Kisch

Western Wall: Chaos breaks out between guards, Women of the Wall

A dispute broke out between the guards at the Western Wall and Women of the Wall after MK Kariv tried to hand a Torah scroll to the latter.

DECEMBER 25, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Women of the Wall read from a Torah scroll at the Western Wall on the seventh day of Hanukkah, December 25, 2022.

Diaspora minister invested NIS 30m. in Jewish org. without A-G approval - report

It was revealed that MK Gilad Kariv was serving as an executive for Panim organization as it was chosen to receive the Diaspora Affairs Ministry grant.

AUGUST 15, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Labour party parliament member Nachman Shai seen outside a Labour party polling station in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019, Party members go to the polls to choose the party list for the upcoming general elections.

Election process becomes heated debate as MKs spar 

"The Israeli public cannot be held captive by political moves," MK Gilad Kariv said.

JUNE 23, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
APPOINTEE GILAD KARIV leads the committee in the Knesset, July 5.

Celebrate Israel Parade: Jews come together in New York - opinion

The parade is symbolic of the connection that the New York Jewish community feels for our homeland of Israel.

MAY 17, 2022ByGILAD KARIV, OFIR AKUNIS
Participants carry Israeli flags at the 'Celebrate Israel'' parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2017

Ultra-Orthodox protest against Women of the Wall at the Western Wall

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation pushed hundreds of liberal worshipers to the back of the Western Wall plaza near the fountain at the entrance.

MARCH 4, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Activists in favor of Jewish egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall are seen marching with Torah scrolls through the Old City of Jerusalem on Rosh Hodesh, on March 4, 2022.

Army should've arrested Huwara rioters, Knesset Law Committee chair said

MK Gilad Kariv called the meeting in light of a number of high-profile incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

JANUARY 25, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Scenes from the vandalism caused by Israeli settlers on Palestinians cars and shops in the town of Huwara near Nablus, January 24, 2021.