Welfare minister resigns as corruption charges loom
Likud Knesset member Haim Katz resigned as Israel’s welfare minister on Friday after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced earlier in the week that he plans to indict him on fraud and breach of trust...
Shin Bet to continue COVID phone surveillance for additional 21 days
Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Intelligence Services on Wednesday extended the mandate given to the Shin Bet to trace the mobile phones of coronavirus patients as part of the epidemiological investigations held by the Health...
Gantz orders Israeli defense officials to develop Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the nation’s defense officials on Tuesday to continue work to develop a new Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism designed to supervise materials entering the Gaza Strip and ensure that Hamas...
Critics of ‘Citizenship Law’ ruling charge Supreme Court has ’emptied the law of meaning’
The Israeli Supreme Court’s July 21 ruling upholding a law under which convicted terrorists may be stripped of their citizenship has angered many in Israel’s nationalist camp, who argue that the ruling actually renders the law...
OECD report sheds light on education spending in Israel
A new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report released on Tuesday shows that Israel invests below the average on education compared to other member countries.
The “Education at a Glance” report reveals that...
Israel opens provisional embassy in United Arab Emirates
Israel’s diplomatic mission to Abu Dhabi officially opened on Sunday with the arrival in the United Arab Emirates of head of mission Eitan Na’eh, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Na’eh, formerly Israel’s...
‘Pay to slay’ Knesset bill: ‘The PA will be forced to make a decision’
The Israeli bill meant to discourage the Palestinian Authority from paying terrorists, which was just given authorization by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to go to a final vote in Israel’s Knesset, will...
Israeli police push Netanyahu bribery indictment; he decries ‘slander’
Israeli police investigators have recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in two corruption cases, increasing the pressure to step down on one of the longest-serving Israeli leaders in the country’s history.
After a...
Will the Bennett-Lapid government have the political power to address Israel’s most contentious issues?
Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett was sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister on Sunday evening with a razor-thin 60 Knesset member majority. At the same time, Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid was...
Israel signs multimillion-dollar strategic accord with Morocco
Jerusalem and Rabat have signed a strategic accord worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Israel Hayom has learned.
The heads of the Israel Manufacturers Association, the Israel Farmers Federation and the Israeli Federation of the Chambers of...