Deputy Minister

The Noam Party leader will return to the government as a deputy minister.

Featured / Politics / Government / Business and Economy / Egypt / Asia / Russia

Russia Planning Free Trade Zone with India, Egypt, Iran, Israel

'Regarding India and Egypt, I think we will start talks this year, probably closer to the year-end. Negotiations with Israel have already started.'

Druze / Government

Ayoub Kara Appointed Minister of Communications

By Jewish Press News Desk

PM Netanyahu will be handing over this closely guarded ministry to Ayoub Kara.

Haredim & Hassidim / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Secular Leftists Applaud New Hareidi Minister

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religion

Ashkenazi Hareidi MK Now Cabinet Minister for First Time in 60 Years

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Torah sages surrendered to the High Court's ruling that a "Deputy Minister" cannot act as Minister.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Druze Minister: Silence of West on Syrian Massacre Strengthens al-Qaeda

By Jacob Edelist

Deputy Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee Ayoob Kara on Monday called on Western democracies "to stop their intolerable procrastination, which allows the Assad regime to continue its massacres."

News Briefs

On the Eve of Yom HaShoah, Israel's Government Increases Holocaust Survivors' Benefits

By Jewish Press News Desk

On the eve of Yom HaShoah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet on Tuesday adopted the recommendation of the Prime Minister, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Deputy Minister for Senior Citizen affairs Leah Nass and Knesset Finance committee Chairman Moshe Gafni, and decided to increase the budget for the basket of services for Holocaust survivors, setting it […]