TEL AVIV – Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday held the first hearing, which was broadcast live on television, about whether to allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government despite his indictment in three corruption cases.
TEL AVIV – The newly passed hot-button Jewish nation-state law is not in violation of the rights of minorities since it does not supersede Israel’s Basic Laws that enshrine equality for all, the country’s Attorney General said Monday.
TEL AVIV – Israel will postpone deporting illegal African migrants until after Passover a high court demand for a policy brief on the matter.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel’s 120 mile fence along the Egyptian border is preventing a “flood” of illegal African migrants from coming into the country, which is “worse” than terrorists in the Sinai peninsula.
TEL AVIV – The majority of Israelis support their government’s campaign to deport illegal African migrants to an unnamed third country, a new poll released Wednesday found.
TEL AVIV – Israel is in talks with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) to relocate a percentage of African migrants to third countries deemed “safe” by the UN, with some of them to remain in Israel permanently.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday slammed the backlash against the government’s announcement that Israel will deport illegal African migrants as “slander” and a “campaign of lies.” The Interior Ministry on Sunday began issuing thousands of deportation notices to single Eritrean and
TEL AVIV – Israel on Sunday began issuing thousands of deportation notices to single Eritrean and Sudanese men, telling them they had 60 days to leave the country to an unnamed African country with a“stable government” otherwise they faced forced removal or imprisonment.
TEL AVIV – Israel on Wednesday said illegal African migrants would be paid to leave the country to the tune of thousands of dollars per head, or else face the prospect of jail.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s southern barrier proves 100 percent effective in preventing infiltration with a new report issued Sunday by the country’s Population and Immigration Authority showing that not a single person managed to get in the country illegally in the past 12 months.
TEL AVIV – Head of the centrist Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid on Wednesday called on Israel to deport the vast majority of illegal migrants from Africa and allow only the “small group of actual refugees” to stay.
The Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry has reversed its opposition to same-sex couples adopting children in Israel, less than a month after announcing the controversial decision, according to a report Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the state may deport illegal migrants to a third country with consent, but added that the government cannot detain those who refuse to go for more than 60 days.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved on Thursday an expansion project for the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, okaying the construction of 300 new housing units in the community.
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled in favor of Tel Aviv’s battle to expand facilities open to the secular public on Shabbat, saying that the municipality can permit mini-markets to operate on the Jewish day of rest.
Senior lawmakers voted unanimously Thursday to establish a new West Bank settlement for families evicted from the razed Amona outpost, the first new Jewish town in the territory since the 1993 Oslo Accords, amid intense negotiations with the US over settlement building.
Several hundred Israeli security forces have begun the operation to evacuate 40 Jewish families from the Amona outpost in the West Bank on Wednesday morning following hours of delay, police said.
The naturalization process for foreign same-sex partners in Israel will be the same as that of their heterosexual counterparts, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit reported Thursday to the High Court of Justice.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a forum of coalition party leaders on Sunday afternoon that the state would ask the High Court of Justice to delay the evacuation Amona by 30 days to allow time for the establishment of structures to absorb the outpost’s residents.
Hundreds of protesters gathered Thursday outside the Beersheba city council building to protest the cancellation of the city’s first-ever pride parade.
The parents of the missing Israeli soldier Oron Shaul, Zehava and Herzl, and dozens of other activists blocked the entrance to the Nafha Prison in Mitzpe Ramon to two buses carrying Palestinian prisoners’ families on Monday.
