The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen.
Hundreds protest Likud event, minister files police complaint, photographer shoved to ground
Scuffles with police erupt as hundreds of demonstrators mass outside a pre-Rosh Hashanah event for the ruling Likud Party, protesting a series of government ministers as they enter the venue in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikvah.
The event, a “toast” held a little over a week before the Jewish New Year, takes place as weekly rallies across the country call for a ceasefire agreement to release the 48 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Protesters at the Likud event at first attempt to block the entrance, according to Hebrew media, and are then moved behind a barricade by police. Footage on social media shows them chanting “Shame” at those entering the event.
A video circulating on social media shows veteran photographer Reuven Castro being shoved to the ground as Transportation Minister Miri Regev enters the venue under heavy security. The Kan public broadcaster reports that a police officer shoved Castro, who received treatment on site.
אלימות משטרתית בהפגנה בפתח תקווה מחוץ לאירוע הרמת כוסית של הליכוד; שוטר יס"מ הטיח לקרקע את צלם העיתונות ראובן קסטרו, שנפגע וטופל במקום@hadasgrinberg ואורלי אלקלעי
(צילום: אורית לטנר, "בונות אלטרנטיבה") pic.twitter.com/4y7LSRn8CR
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) September 13, 2025
May Golan, minister for social equality and women’s empowerment, enters the event accompanied by security and, in a post on X, says she is accosted by protesters who use epithets including sexual harassment. She says she has filed a police complaint.
She makes a heart sign with her hands as she walks by the protesters, according to footage.
“I just arrived under heavy security at the Likud’s toast event in Petah Tikva and was attacked by protesters who cursed me, threw objects toward me, and yelled things at me that included sexual harassment,” Golan posts on X, vowing to continue “sounding my voice of truth, and that of the great community I represent.”
הגעתי כעת תחת אבטחה כבדה לאירוע הרמת כוסית של הליכוד בפ״ת והותקפתי על ידי מפגינים שקיללו אותי, זרקו לעברי חפצים וקראו לעברי הערות הכוללות הטרדות מיניות –
אם פעילי ימין היו מתנהגים כך המהדורות היו נפתחות, אבל הם לא בוחלים בכלום, לא בהסתה לרצח ולא בפציעה עד זוב דם של צלם תמים!… pic.twitter.com/6GLhLgdZai
— May Golan מאי גולן (@GolanMay) September 13, 2025
One person is arrested in the area, according to a legal aid group for protesters.
West Bank home of Basel Adra, activist and Oscar-winning director, raided by IDF
Israeli soldiers raided the home of Palestinian activist and Oscar-winning director Basel Adra in the southern West Bank this evening, after two Israelis were injured by stone throwing in the area, according to the military.
Adra told The Associated Press that before the army raid, Israeli settlers had attacked his village of at-Tuwani, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin.
He accompanied them to a hospital, and while there, Adra said that he heard from family in the village that nine Israeli soldiers had entered his home, were searching for him, and were going through his wife’s phone.
The military says that it had received reports that “a number of terrorists hurled stones at Israeli civilians near at-Tuwani.” As a result of the stone throwing, two Israelis were injured, the IDF says in response to an inquiry.
Following the reports, the IDF says it dispatched troops to the scene, “and they are currently scanning the area and questioning suspects.”
Among those questioned was Adra, a military source confirms to The Times of Israel.
Adra won an Academy Award earlier this year for his work as a co-director of “No Other Land,” a documentary that chronicles Israeli demolitions in Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian West Bank village in a designated IDF live-fire training zone.
Man arrested on suspicion of smashing windshield of car during protest
A man has been arrested at a protest tonight on suspicion of smashing the windshield of a car, police say in a statement.
The suspect, 53, was allegedly at a protest for a ceasefire and hostage-release deal at Karkur Junction in north-central Israel when he smashed the windshield of a passing car that had small children riding inside, police say.
He lives nearby and was taken to a police station in Zichron Yaakov for questioning, which will determine the police’s next steps.
“Vandalism is not legitimate protest,” the police statement says. It adds that police see protest as a “cornerstone of a democratic state” and make efforts to allow lawful demonstrations, but “will not allow disturbance of order of any kind.”
The man is one of three people arrested at protests on Saturday night, according to a group of lawyers who offer pro bono representation to people detained at anti-government demonstrations.