Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday fired Shas party leader and key ally Aryeh Deri, ending his tenure both as Health Minister and Interior Minister, after the Supreme Court ruling deemed his appointment “unreasonable to the extreme” in light of his convictions over tax offenses.
Some 120,000 demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to protest the government on Saturday evening and its proposal to overhaul the left-leaning judiciary.
Israel’s left-wing Supreme Court, which is currently the subject of intense debate due to a government proposal to overhaul it, issued a bombshell ruling that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must fire a key ally and party leader from his ministerial position.
As part of efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Monday said Israel would ban all non-Israelis who were in four East Asian countries and territories in the previous 14 days.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced on Sunday that he had directed the Population and Immigration Authority to prepare a legal opinion to be used in the deportation of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions founder Omar Barghouti.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) admitted in a series of tweets Friday that the purpose of her trip to Israel centered around “witness[ing] firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine” — just as Israeli leadership originally suggested — and called for the U.S. to use aid as “leverage” against Israel.
Members of the far-left “Squad” are reacting to the fallout between Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Israel, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) promising to cease trips to Israel “until all members of Congress are allowed.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) will not visit Israel, despite writing a letter to Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri Thursday, begging to see her aging grandmother and prompting Israel to reverse its decision. On Thursday morning, Israel confirmed its decision to
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) praised socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his reaction to Israel’s initial decision to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from entering the country in a pair of tweets Thursday night.
Israel’s interior minister blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for rejecting the Jewish state’s offer to allow the far-left congresswoman to visit relatives in Israel’s West Bank, saying her “hatred” for the country outweighs her love for her grandmother.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to Israel’s decision to deny entry to far-left Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), calling it a “shameful, unprecedented move” in a tweet Thursday.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli government may backtrack on its reported decision to allow Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to enter the country later this week.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man who received death threats because he saved the children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter had been killed in a terror attack was awarded Israeli residency Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire was granted Israeli citizenship on Wednesday.
A team of Israeli divers plan to start searching the Danube River in Hungary this week in an attempt to recover the remains of Jews killed on the banks of the waterway during the Holocaust.
Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion declared victory early Wednesday in the runoff election, but his rival, Ofer Berkovitch, vowed his legal team would be looking into alleged “irregularities” at the polling stations.
TEL AVIV – A baby from Iraqi Kurdistan who was born with a congenital heart defect is being flown to Israel for life-saving surgery.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced that detention centers for illegal African migrants and asylum seekers would be established following the failure of the government’s deportation plan to third countries.
TEL AVIV – For the first time, an Israeli court on Sunday revoked the citizenship of an Arab Israeli terrorist convicted of a 2015 stabbing and car-ramming attack that seriously wounded four people.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Minister of Interior on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to officially request an emergency session at the United Nations Security Council to discuss the deepening humanitarian crisis in Syria, saying that, “as Jews, we cannot ignore these atrocities.”
Israeli leaders warned Thursday that anyone caught deliberately setting the fires that have ravaged the country in recent days, could have their residency revoked.
TEL AVIV – A Jewish woman from Kurdistan has fled to Israel after her Muslim husband threatened to sell her to the Islamic State.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Ministry and Public Security ministry launched a committee Sunday that would prohibit anti-Israel activists from entering Israel and deport those already in the country.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday took steps to revoke citizenship from two Arab residents of Jerusalem over their involvement with the Islamic State terror group.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 14 (UPI) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unprecedented appearance in his country’s Supreme Court Sunday to defend a controversial natural gas extraction deal with U.S. and Israeli investors. The deal, signed in December between Israel
