The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on Tuesday called on Israeli members of the extremist ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor, or “Pure Heart” cult to “come home,” offering each family unprecedented absorption benefits.
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said Saturday night that the terrorist who murdered three members of the Salomon family in Halamish should not have survived the attack.
The three Israelis murdered in the terror attack in Halamish on Friday night were named Saturday as Yosef Salomon, 70, and his children Chaya Salomon, 46, and Elad Salomon, 35.
In a major development that could lead to indictments of senior public officials, one of the men arrested in connection with suspected corruption in the multi-million-dollar purchase of naval vessels from Germany signed a deal to become a state’s witness on Friday.
Former Israeli army chief Lt. Gen. (ret.) Benny Gantz will testify to police on Thursday in the so-called submarine affair.
A teacher at a religious school—who was convicted of indecent assault on his students—was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison and two years of probation.
One of the more curious and perhaps more serious aspects of the submarine affair is the Israeli approval given to Germany to sell advanced submarines to Egypt as well.
An editor of the left-wing Haaretz daily chastised French President Emmanuel Macron for calling anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism, praising anti-Zionism as “resistance” against racism and apartheid.
The Rabbinical Courts Administration has been instructed by the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court to discuss opening a criminal investigation with the attorney general into the father of a man who is refusing to grant his wife a divorce.
Germany has announced it will be postponing the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the sale of three submarines to Israel, scheduled for next week, in light of an ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption in the deal.