Poem by Yehonatan Geffen comparing Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi to Anne Frank, Hannah Szenes and Joan of Arc infuriated Defense Minister Lieberman, who sought to then ban Geffen from all Army Radio broadcasts; AG Mandelblit said Lieberman had no legal standing to do so, an opinion Lieberman disavowed. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Army Radio …
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More than 50 Palestinians died waiting for Israeli visas to travel for medical treatment last year, with only around half of all applications granted, new figures showed Tuesday. A total of 54 Palestinians died awaiting permits in 2017, the World Health Organization said, in what rights activists called an overly bureaucratic system which deprives Palestinians …
In practice, Israel cannot keep track of people deported to Rwanda or Uganda and find out how they are managing, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely admitted Monday — this, despite the state’s promise to do so. Hotovely’s remarks, made at a meeting of Likud members on Monday, were taped and broadcast Tuesday evening on Kan11 …
housands of African asylum seekers on Wednesday protested outside the Rwandan Embassy in Israel, calling on the African country not to cooperate with an Israeli plan to deport them. Israel has given thousands of migrants in the country until April 1 to accept an offer to leave for an unnamed African destination — widely known …
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Eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and dozens more injured since early 30 Mart morning, as thousands of Gazans took to the borders with Israel as part of “The Great March of Return” taking place across the besieged coastal enclave to mark the 42nd Land Day. In 1976,Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian …
Israeli chief of staff Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot has warned the army has been given authorization to open fire ahead of mass protests on the Gaza border planned in 30 March. Eisenkot said reinforcements, including special forces snipers, had been deployed to the border to counter what he said was the most serious risk of …
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Israel’s deputy defense minister, MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, has claimed that Israel could annex the entirety of the occupied West Bank, without giving its Palestinian residents the right to vote. Ben-Dahan made the remarks in an interview with the pro-settler news outlet Arutz Sheva, and in particular, addressed the issue of demographics between the River Jordan and the …
The attackers tried to take hold of the donkey he was riding and when he objected, they threw a stone at him. A 20-year-old Jewish man was sentenced to 400 hours of community service and a 7,500 shekel ($2,200) fine for attacking a Palestinian worker and injuring him. He will also be on probation for eight months. The State …
One of Israel’s chief rabbis called black people “monkeys” during his weekly sermon. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s comments were denounced as ”racially charged” and “utterly unacceptable” by the Anti-Defamation League, a New York City-based organisation devoted to battling anti-Semitism and racism. During his weekly sermon, the rabbi used a derogatory Hebrew term for a black person, before going on to …
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Yoav Kish, a lawmaker of Israel’s ruling Likud National Liberal Party led by Benjamin Netanyahu, told an Arab member of Knesset to say “Israel akbar” (Israel is great) instead of “Allahu akbar” (God is great) during prayers. Local press reported that Kish made the scandalous statement last Wednesday during a Knesset session discussing a draft …
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