A 16-year-old of Filipino origin is battling to join her school friends on a March of the Living trip, but she worries she won't be allowed back from Poland because of her parents' uncertain status with the Israeli authorities. Janelle Pancho's parents c

Interior Minister Eli Yishai took part on Friday at the opening of a Mayors Conference being held in Jerusalem at the initiative of the Zionist Council in Israel and the World Zionist Organization. During his remarks in the City of David, Yishai addresse

Yair Lapid should be brought to the City of David, and then he will also become religious and join Shas, said Interior Minister Eli Yishai at a conference held by by the Israeli Zionist Council and World Zionist Organization Friday. Emphasizing the impor

The Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights is to be opened Monday to allow 15 Druze students studying in Syria to return, and let families of Syrian massacre victims pay condolence calls and visit the wounded. The decision to open the crossing was made b

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) this week sent a sharply critical letter to Knesset members government ministers, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that Jews have the right to “unfettered access and freedom” to pray on the Temple

The Population, Immigration, and Borders Authority (PIBA) on Wednesday began informing foreign workers and their children whether they have the right to stay in Israel or will face deportation in the next month. In late January, Interior Minster Eli Yish

Bereaved families from the 2010 Carmel Forest Disaster speaking at a press conference in the Knesset on Monday said that they place sole responsibility for the deaths of their family members on the operational command of the police and Prisons Service. F

The Finance Ministry should not have made funding for the firefighting services conditional on a reform, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss said over the weekend. Interior Minister Eli Yishai and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz received his report Thu

The sister of Interior Minister Eli Yishai is being sued for nearly NIS 30,000 for failing to pay social benefits and grant the appropriate vacation time or sick leave to a foreign worker whom she employed illegally for more than five months. Mina Kumari

Interior Minister Eli Yishai responded on Saturday for the first time to the impending report by the State Comptroller’s Office, which is expected to call for Yishai's resignation over the 2010 Carmel fire. Last Thursday, the State Comptroller’s Office s

Interior Minister Eli Yishai responded Saturday to State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss' report on the handling of the Carmel Fire rejecting culpability and implying that he was being singled out because he is religious. Speaking in an interview with Ch

Interior Minister Eli Yishai welcomed on Thursday the draft report of the State Comptroller regarding the Carmel forest fire disaster. “The minister welcomes the draft report which highlights the lack of a connection between the bus disaster and the mini

A foreign worker from Nepal is suing Interior Minister Eli Yishai's sister, Yael Sha'ashua, for allegedly employing her illegally and without paying her social benefits as required by law. Mina Kumari is suing Sha'ashua for NIS 29,000 for failing to pay

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss sent the final draft of his detailed report into the Mount Carmel fire to ministers and senior officials on Thursday. He instructed them to file their responses within two weeks. Lindenstrauss also warned once again

Interior Minister Eli Yishai claimed Thursday that the State Comptroller's draft report into the Carmel fire includes "many factual mistakes which led to inherently wrong conclusions." Yishai was one of those held accountable for the fire. Nevertheless,

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz commented on the State Comptroller's draft report into the Carmel fire disaster calling it "bizarre and utterly groundless." State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss claimed Steinitz and Interior Minister Eli Yishai bear "spe

The State Comptroller’s report on the December 2010 Carmel fire will place “special” responsibility with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Interior Minister Eli Yishai for failures that led to the disaster, and “general” responsibility with Prime Minis

The State Comptroller, Judge Emeritus Micha Lindenstrauss, sent the final draft of his detailed report about the Carmel Fire to ministers and officials on Thursday. Copies of the report, entitled The Carmel Fire December 2010 - Omissions, Failures and Co

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who Lindenstrauss says should be held accountable in the matter, were also sent a copy of the report. (Aviad Glickman) State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has completed the final draft o