Interior minister Eli Ishai says that additional jails and detention centers should be built to house illegal infiltrators without exception. In a radio interview ...
Interior minister Eli Ishai says that additional jails and detention centers should be built to house illegal infiltrators without exception. In a radio interview Ishai said only completing the security fence along the border with Egypt and the building of more prisons will the serious problem of infiltrators be solved.
The Interior minister said only a small number of Africans in Israel are refugees, and the rest should be detained and repatriated. He charged that most of them are engaged in criminal activity.
Knesset member Roni Bar On has been unanimously elected chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee. He replaces Shaul Mofaz who was appointed ...
Knesset member Roni Bar On has been unanimously elected chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee. He replaces Shaul Mofaz who was appointed deputy prime minister.
Meanwhile the Knesset House committee has apporved the appointment of Uri Ariel as the new chairman of the State Comptroller's committee. The appointment must also be approved by the committee itself. Labor has expressed its opposition to the appointment.
An Israeli advocacy group has won a 323 million dollar judgement in a US court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian terrorists who killed an American ...
An Israeli advocacy group has won a 323 million dollar judgement in a US court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian terrorists who killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center that said the group had won courtroom victories against Iran, but never before against Syria.
The center was representing the family of 16 year old old Daniel Wultz of Florida, who was among 11 killed in an April, 2006 Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Daniel's father was severely wounded in the attack.
US district Judge Royce Lamberth said in Monday's ruling that when a state chooses to use terror as a policy tool, as Iran and Syria contniue to do, the state forfeits its sovereign immunity and deserves unadorned condemnations.
Darshan-Leitner said there is a good chance for the victim's family to get compensation through frozen Syrian assets held by the US.
Dozens of Palestinians rioted on Tuesday morning and threw rocks at some 20 people praying at Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem. The disturbances ...
Dozens of Palestinians rioted on Tuesday morning and threw rocks at some 20 people praying at Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem. The disturbances occured as Palestinians marked Nakba (catastrophe) Day, the anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel.
Border police reinforcements arrived at the site while Palestinian police deployed on the Palestinian side of the tomb to break up the demonstration.
There were also disturbances reported at the Qalandia checkpoint and in Hebron.
Israeli security forces deployed in heightened numbers in areas of possible friction as Palestinians plan rallies to mark Nakba Day.
EU foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel saying the gathering pace of settlement construction, settler extremism and ill-treatment of Palestinians threatens ...
EU foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel saying the gathering pace of settlement construction, settler extremism and ill-treatment of Palestinians threatens a 2-state solution.
"The EU expresses deep concern about developments on the ground which threaten to make a two-state solution impossible," the bloc's 27 ministers said in a statement issued during talks in Brussels.
Israel Foreign ministry spokesman Paul Hirschson said the EU conclusions were based on a partial and one-sided depiction of realities on the ground.
Likud Knesset member Danny Danon has criticised the deal Israel signed to bring an end to a hunger strike by Palestinian security inmates, calling it a "mistake" ...
Likud Knesset member Danny Danon has criticised the deal Israel signed to bring an end to a hunger strike by Palestinian security inmates, calling it a "mistake" and a "prize for terrorism."
Meir Indoor , head of the Almagor victims of terror organisation, also condemned yesterday's deal.
The United States is not impressed with India's efforts to cut its oil imports from Iran, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday, throwing into doubt whether New Delhi ...
The United States is not impressed with India's efforts to cut its oil imports from Iran, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday, throwing into doubt whether New Delhi would be given a waiver from US financial sanctions before a June deadline.
As a major buyer of Iranian crude, India is crucial to US efforts to squeeze Iran's economy until it agrees to curb its nuclear programme, which the United States and other Western nations suspect is a cover to build atomic weapons.
Results are expected Wednesday from DNA testing of the Palestinian suspect in the Tel Aviv parking lot rape case. The Tel Aviv magistrates court yesterday extended ...
Results are expected Wednesday from DNA testing of the Palestinian suspect in the Tel Aviv parking lot rape case. The Tel Aviv magistrates court yesterday extended by eight days the remand in custody of the suspect, who allegedly raped an 18-year-old girl in the Gan Ha'ir parking lot in Tel Aviv on Friday night. The suspect is a 21-year-old Palestinian from the Nablus region who worked in several restaurants in Tel Aviv and lived not far from the scene of the crime. He has denied raping the girl and claimed that he only stole her cell phone and that of her boyfriend.
The police said during the court hearing that the suspect attacked the policemen who came to arrest him, bit one of them and then tried to get away. Police are investigating whether the suspect is linked to other unsolved sex crimes in Tel Aviv.
The Immigration Authority has recommended indicting the wife of Attorney General Yehuda Weinsten for hiring an illegal foreign worker. Authorities learned that ...
The Immigration Authority has recommended indicting the wife of Attorney General Yehuda Weinsten for hiring an illegal foreign worker. Authorities learned that Aviva Weinstein hired an Indian national and that he was let go prior to her husband's appointment to the post of attorney general.
Weinstein reportedly asked the former employee if he was permitted to work in the country — and he said yes — but failed to check further. A Kol Yisrael reporter says the findings of the probe have been handed over to the deputy state attorney for a decision on whether to file charges.
Thousands of customers lined up outside the country's cellular phone companies following Tuesday's announcement by new entrants to the market of sharply lower prices. ...
Thousands of customers lined up outside the country's cellular phone companies following Tuesday's announcement by new entrants to the market of sharply lower prices. Customers are looking to sign up with the new companies or force the veteran providers to match their prices. The web site of one of the new companies, Golan Telecom, which is offering a 99 shekel all inclusive monthly rate saw its web site collapse.
The cost-of-living index in April rose by nine tenths of a percent. The rise was due to a sharp increase in vegetable prices. Tomatos rose by 23 percent. Housing ...
The cost-of-living index in April rose by nine tenths of a percent. The rise was due to a sharp increase in vegetable prices. Tomatos rose by 23 percent. Housing prices were up by one percent and electricity by eight percent and clothing by five percent. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 2.2 percent.
The Knesset Finance Committee has approved a decision by Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz not to lower the value added tax by half a percent at the end of the year ...
The Knesset Finance Committee has approved a decision by Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz not to lower the value added tax by half a percent at the end of the year as planned. VAT will remain at 16 percent. The decision has to be approved by the full Knesset. The finance ministry estimates that the move will bring in an additional 2 billion shekels in revenue.
The Israel Electric Corporation has requested another price hike. The state-owned utility did not reveal how much it would ask to raise prices. The latest request ...
The Israel Electric Corporation has requested another price hike. The state-owned utility did not reveal how much it would ask to raise prices. The latest request follows a further cut in gas supplies from the Yam Thetis consortium. Prices were raised in February by nearly 9 percent.
The two chess stars vying for the world title played to another draw on Tuesday, the fourth such result in as many matches.
India's title holder Viswanathan Anand ...
The two chess stars vying for the world title played to another draw on Tuesday, the fourth such result in as many matches.
India's title holder Viswanathan Anand and Israel's Boris Gelfand agreed to a draw after a tough game in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery. The winner is set to pocket 1.5 million dollars with the loser earning 1 million dollars.