Australian pop-music star Natalie Imbruglia has apparently cancelled her planned performance in Israel after being pressured by the anti-Semitic BDS movement, which calls on artists and businesses to desist from cooperation with Israel – under pretense to criticism of Israeli policy.
On the face of it, the ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh are another protest against the state and its intention to draft yeshiva students.
A bill enabling religious courts to serve as arbitrators in civil lawsuits passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset Wednesday.
A French gay porn star complained Monday over his rough treatment at the hands of Israeli airport officials, who, he claimed, interrogated him for hours and gave him a strip search, all because of his Muslim-sounding name.
The tax evasion investigation against Bar Refaeli and her mother, Tzipi Refaeli, has reached its final stages and Tax Authority investigators believe they have enough evidence warranting criminal tax evasion charges.
Erez Vigodman, the Chief Executive Officer of the Israeli generic drugmaker giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries stepped down effective immediately on Monday, the company said.
Beit Shemesh, Israel – In some Israeli schools, fourth-graders learn computer programming while gifted 10th-graders take after-school classes in encryption tactics, coding and how to stop malicious hacking. The country even has two new kindergartens that teach computer skills and robotics.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been denied any prison furloughs for six weeks as a punishment for being insolent to a guard.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog was hospitalized on Friday night in Tel Aviv.
The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain on Tuesday called on British police to arrest former IDF Major General and MK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid), who is accused of having committed war crimes during his years in the IDF.
