By JNi.Media
"It's been four years into the legalization in Colorado and the sky did not fall," committee chairwoman Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) said.
Israel approves birth certificates listing both mothers in cases where a family has two mommies.
By JNi.Media
Bennett was behind the popular notion that the Netanyahu security cabinet was unaware of the tunnel threat.
By JNi.Media
"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
By JNi.Media
One report that had been produced by a Knesset committee was shelved because of the 2015 elections.
By JNi.Media
Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.
By JNi.Media
The new law is all but tailor-made for the inequities of one MK — the vociferous Haneen Zoabi (Joint Arab List).
By JNi.Media
"I ask all those who are asking questions and those who may have hope in their hearts: don't hurry to have suits made. Stop the tailors."
By JNi.Media
"At the Israel Postal Company, for instance, some 69 percent of the complaints were found to be justified."
President Reuven Rivlin and his counterpart from Uruguay enjoyed a cordial conversation in Jerusalem, agreeing on numerous points.
By JNi.Media
The last straw in Galatz's elitist load was the station's movie critic Gidi Orsher who posted a particularly offensive Facebook status in which he described Jews from Muslim countries as superstitious savages.
By JNi.Media
The process of having the therapeutic and/or mediation meetings before being able to file for divorce will take 45 days.
By JNi.Media
"I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they're not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world."
The Republican party doesn't match the anti-Israel party portrait peddled by so many for so long.
By JNi.Media
The committee also succeeded in repelling the Israeli tax authority, which wanted initially to be able to use information gathered by Israeli banks for the IRS.
By JNi.Media
The leftover money will go to a fund for future cases in which IDF soldiers are taken to court by their own army.
By JNi.Media
The shooting incident ended miraculously, since only the driver’s leg was injured when terrorists shot at his car, while his wife and their six children, including a one-week-old infant, were also in the vehicle.
By JNi.Media
"The key factor for resolving the housing crisis is a conceptual change in the planning process, the land development and the construction methods."
By JNi.Media
The family petitioned the court saying the decision to make all the TV channels carrying the game tonight available to security prisoners, most of whom are members of Hamas, is repugnant.
By JNi.Media
The case for both an acquittal and a mistrial appears strong, so that there's little doubt that a conviction would result in an appeal to the civilian Supreme Court.
“The history of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa is sadly overlooked, even though every other Jew in Israel comes from this region.”
By JNi.Media
"The head of Investigations and Intelligence Branch has power by virtue of his position. Power corrupts, and great power corrupts more. Therefore, he must act with caution."
By JNi.Media
Among the privileges which will become outlawed should the bill pass are conjugal visits, canteen purchases, and possession of TV sets and game consoles.
By JNi.Media
"We should have a big water problem but we don't, we have a water surplus. We have a water surplus because we've developed ingenuity to overcome this."
By JNi.Media
What was common to both funerals and shiva houses was an abiding faith in the right of the Jewish people to live in freedom and security anywhere in this great, but tiny land.
By JNi.Media
Finance Committee Chairman Gafni (UTJ) said "with all due respect to the Finance Ministry and talks of reform, in practice the prices have not gone down."
By JNi.Media
In January 2015 Shamir announced he was leaving the party and would not run in the 2015 elections because of to disagreements with Liberman over foreign policy.
The families feel the Turkish deal should have been used to bring back the abducted soldiers' bodies.
“The goal of the world and the Palestinians is to create Palestinian territorial continuity through Givat Hamatos from Beit Jala to Malha,” continued Minister Bennett.
By JNi.Media
Last week the Netanyahu cabinet passed a $13 million plan to strengthen economic links and cooperation with African countries.
By JNi.Media
In the presence of family members of the abducted three youths taken by Hamas murderers in July 2014, thousands of local residents celebrated their memory at the Oz v'Gaon Nature Preserve.
By JNi.Media
"We're talking about a new kind of terrorism, viral terrorism," Bennett explained.
By JNi.Media
Dr. Yohai Kaspi is part of the Juno Science team that hopes to answer some burning questions about the largest planet in the Solar System.
By JNi.Media
Meanwhile, on the Palestinian Authority side, the responsibility for the shortage is being placed squarely on Israel.
Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog slams UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, notes his 'consistent hatred of Israel.'
Israel and South Korea are engaged in free trade negotiations; a round of talks concluded Thursday in Seoul.
By JNi.Media
The current president of the İHH, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, has been under investigation by specially authorized prosecutors in Istanbul and Diyarbakır for financing al-Qaeda through his organization.
By JNi.Media
However, in all three areas, Israeli Jews scored far better than their Arab neighbors, with an average gap of 40 to 50 points in every area.
By JNi.Media
"The content of the letter is very clear. We express our regret. We say that we are sharing the pain felt by those who lost loved ones. We say that we will pay compensation, if needed."
By JNi.Media
“Israel is responsible to protect and strengthen Jewish identity and affinity for Israel among each and every Jew everywhere in the world."
Netanyahu discussed the details of the agreement Israel signed with Turkey, and the benefits to Israel...
Jerusalem Mayor Barkat is set to fire the ancient cannon to end the Islamic Ramadan fast.
By JNi.Media
Amsalem demanded statistics on the level of congestion in each prison.
By JNi.Media
On Monday afternoon Prime Minister Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are expected to announce a reconciliation agreement between their two countries.
Police arrested the boy at 3 AM, to send him to a farm down south. His parents were not allowed to accompany him. He wasn't even allowed to bring his T'fillin.
Israeli leaders responded fiercely to the lies hurled from the European Union podium by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Four Hamas terrorists responsible for murdering the Henkin couple are sentenced to life in prison.
By JNi.Media
Sharansky: “This is the single greatest expression of the Jewish people’s solidarity with French Jewry.”
By JNi.Media
Orthodox authorities are concerned not only about the proper execution of the halakhic dipping, but also about the push to permit unmarried women to dip, which the rabbis view as an invitation to lechery.
By JNi.Media
So now it's been established, the goose really hates it when the gander is doing goosey things, and sees nothing funny about it.
By JNi.Media
They are stuck in the snow, unable to advance, that their equipment is drenched and that the gas in their single burner is about to run out.
By JNi.Media
"It's time to expose the truth behind this shocking episode, an episode that is a black stain on the history of the State of Israel."
By JNi.Media
As of March 2015, 164 states have ratified the CTBT and another 19 states have signed but not ratified it.
By JNi.Media
On Monday Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told reporters: “I do not think it is right to lock up two million people without any connection to the world."
By JNi.Media
The banks fear that if the caps apply retroactively and include severance pay and pensions, a much larger number of bank officials would be seeking to leave before the law goes into effect in October.
By JNi.Media
"Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria have been experiencing unique security realities on a daily basis because of their geographic location and the quality of life in the area."
By JNi.Media
There is a dispute between the professional echelon in the defense ministry and Prime Minister Netanyahu over the American proposal.
By JNi.Media
"It's very sad that the prime minister and the media follow misinformation."
By JNi.Media
“What's the greatest mistake of the right wing government?" Herzog joked, answering his own trick question: "That there is no real left wing to blame.
The ban will hold for at least one month and may be extended to as long as six months.
By JNi.Media
The mixed service is now a retaliation against Jerusalem Chief Rabbi's division of the designated mixed-prayer area.
By JNi.Media
The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
By JNi.Media
In Israel every fifth first grader (20%) is overweight, and by the seventh grade 30% — one in three children — are overweight.
By JNi.Media
In 1976, Sakhnin was the site of the first Land Day marches, in which six Israeli Arabs were killed by Israeli forces during violent protests.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has named Sharon Shalom has his new chief of staff for the Defense Ministry
Israeli leaders conveyed their condolences to the US following the Orlando attack.
By JNi.Media
Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
By JNi.Media
The construction section of the current Sales Law is outdated, and has led real estate companies to develop their own ways of bypassing it, at the expense of their customers.
By JNi.Media
Whether Area C becomes part of Israel or is handed over to the PA, "we should know how many potential Arab citizens we'll have in the state."
By JNi.Media
Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.
By JNi.Media
The Russians are supplying Iran with advanced S-300 long range surface-to-air missile systems, and are in the process of selling the Iranians many more weapons.
Liberman explained why Haniyeh isn't dead yet, as Liberman boasted he would be
By JNi.Media
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."
By JNi.Media
"Currently, French nationals who are looking to emigrate have many options, so if we do not offer them at least what other countries are offering – we'll be facing stiff competition."
By JNi.Media
Ahead of coalition reshuffle, Bennett revving up attacks on Netanyahu, Liberman urging calm.
By JNi.Media
What a wonderful example of community values in face of government deafness.
A teenage boy who was barred from his home in Yitzhar and also from Samaria is allowed to return for lack of placement elsewhere.
By JNi.Media
The overall fertility rate (average number of children a Jerusalem woman is expected to bear in her lifetime) in Jerusalem is 3.91, far higher than the national average of 3.08.
By JNi.Media
Since the international community relies on the 1947 UN partition plan regarding the legal status of Jerusalem, it refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city.
By JNi.Media
Signaling the Russians' intense interest in remaining involved in the process, TASS on Friday ran five different stories involving Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the peace agreement.
By JNi.Media
"Jerusalem will not remain Jewish, moral, whole and safe unless ... we urgently move towards an agreement between both nations, without delay and without excuses," Herzog stated.
By JNi.Media
The provision has been the subject of a tireless match of wills between the Supreme Court and the Knesset since 2004.
By JNi.Media
A Wednesday decree issued by Shabak truly sounded like part of the mad hatter's party in Alice in Wonderland.
By JNi.Media
"Last year MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Camp) tried to pass the Arab initiative in the Knesset and the Likud rejected it."
Sofa Landver, an immigrant from Russia, has returned to the office she headed between 2009 and 2015.
By JNi.Media
The re-mapping effort of those 62 thousand hectares constitutes a significant increase in the rate of this work, compared with only 20 thousand hectares re-mapped in 2014 and 13 thousand in 2013.
By JNi.Media
Justice Minister Shaked issued a statement Monday, saying her bill will give security forces the power to fight terrorism while maintaining human rights.
Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman was unanimously voted in as defense minister by the cabinet after a government compromise.
By JNi.Media
The good news is that a 62% majority of US respondents believe that the BDS movement is a form of modern anti-Semitism.
By JNi.Media
Last December, Sara Netanyahu was interrogated by the same anti-corruption unit, about the use of the electrician on weekends and on Yom Kippur.
By JNi.Media
A Friday Channel 1 News poll gives Bennett's party 14 seats in a new election, with Likud shrinking from 30 to 27 seats, Labor chopped down from 24 to 11, and Lieberman gaining 2, from 6 to 8 seats.
By JNi.Media
Kulanu's vagaries in the coming weeks should be viewed in the context of a party on its way to extinction attempting to soar once more by flapping its arms with great vigor.
By JNi.Media
Will Israel, known for its national obsession with plunging into new, radical changes, take on this moderate change? We'll know more on Sunday.
By JNi.Media
On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.
By JNi.Media
Each time MK Neguise, or foreign governments, or righteous lobbyists ask for another quota of Ethiopian immigrants who are Christian, not Jewish, they promise this is the last time.
By JNi.Media
The committee discussed possible courses of action in light of a recent study that showed Israelis in general have a low sense of personal security.
By JNi.Media
The plan’s first excavation is currently underway in the Cave of the Skulls in Nahal Tse'elim, with the assistance of numerous volunteers.
By JNi.Media
Herzog did not explain how a 55% majority of the house can be considered "extremist" while the remaining 45% are the proverbial moderates.
By JNi.Media
Neguise told the delegation members, pointing out Israel's advanced capabilities in the fields of irrigation, desalination, solar energy, medicine, education and tourism.
The problems in the security cabinet were revealed as part of the lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in the summer of 2014 and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006.