Merav ben-ari

Knesset slam delay in rape kit preservation law

While some 6,500 sex offense cases were opened in these years, the police representative could not say how many of them were rape cases.

 View of a DNA kit during a press conference at La Rochelle tribunal, western France, on April 14, 2014; illustrative.
 Merav Ben Ari, Limor Son Har Melech

'You're a disgrace to women': MKs clash over domestic violence debate

 Otzma Yehudit party member Almog Cohen during a an election campaign conference in Ramat Gan, September 4, 2022.

Almog Cohen apologizes for ‘disrespectful’ insults hurled at fellow MKs

 Otzma Yehudit party member Almog Cohen during a an election campaign conference in Ramat Gan, September 4, 2022.

Appeal to Knesset Ethics Committee against MK Almog Cohen


Tibi calls Yesh Atid MK 'scum' in plenum

Yesh Atid MK Merav Ben-Ari leaves Knesset rostrum in tears following MK Tibi's remarks.

MK Ahmad Tibi attends a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on May 16, 2022.

Knesset battles over NSO and charges of police as ‘mafia’

The Knesset's Interior Security Committee debated the NSO affair on Monday, with chairwoman Merav Ben Ari trying to strike a balance between defending the police and probing its actions.

Merav Ben-Ari with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, February 1, 2021

Bill to keep sex offense evidence for 50 years approved for reading

A bill that would mean that samples taken from victims of sex offenses would be saved for 50 years was approved for first reading in the Knesset.

A MEDICAL TEAM is seen working at the new biological emergency unit dedicated to COVID-19 at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, in Jerusalem, last year.

Bill aiming to make organ donation process easier passes first reading

About a million Israelis have signed Adi cards, and over half of all transplants were received by prioritized card owners.

 MK Merav Ben-Ari with Yesh Atid head and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holding Adi cards

Organ donation process will be made easier in new law

A law meant to ease the process of committing to donate one's organs after death will be debated in the Ministerial Law Committee on Sunday.

Dvora Szerer showing her Adi card

90 Knesset members send petition to Ben & Jerry's opposing boycott

The letter was signed by five Labor MKs, six Blue and White MKs and Yair Golan of Meretz. No Arabs signed it, but Druze MKs did.

ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE between Israel’s electoral system and that of most other Western democracies is the lack of any direct connection between the people who gain a seat in the Knesset and ordinary Israeli voters.

Former Kulanu MK Merav Ben-Ari joins Yesh Atid

Ben-Ari was very public about having a child with a gay man

Merav Ben-Ari with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, February 1, 2021

Bill to decriminalize cannabis use set to become law

The bill mandates that such a person would pay NIS 1,000 for the first offense, NIS 2,000 for the second if done within five years of the first, and a “conditional arrangement” for the third offense.

A worker touches a cannabis plant at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed

MKs in uniform to salute women of the IDF

"Our army is the army of the people... in which everyone should be equal."

MKs (L-R) Sharren Haskel (Likud), Merav Ben-Ari (Kulanu) and Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Zionist Union)

Bill aims to grant academic credits for reserve duty

The bill will be brought to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, and is expected to gain the approval of the ministers.

IDF soldiers in training

Zionist Union lawmaker wins subsidized housing lottery

“I won, but what about all the other people who tried?” MK Biran asks, criticizing Kahlon’s flagship project.

Apartment blocks in Nof Zion.