The position is considered professional, not political, and the Minister Miki Zohar does not have the authority to fire the head of the center himself. His efforts, however, follow a similar pattern of other cabinet ministers this year

'It was never a common practice,' says a Jerusalem historian. Although the phenomenon isn’t new, it’s changing in nature and becoming more common and more extreme. The most important development in recent years has been its spread to the Muslim Quarter

The Biden administration hopes Israeli opposition parties will consider joining the coalition in place of its far-right members in case the latter opposes any concessions towards the Palestinians as part of a potential Saudi agreement

The food stamp program initiated by former Interior Minister Arye Dery was criticized for its exclusive criteria which left out many food-insecure populations, disproportionately benefitting the ultra-Orthodox community

The protesters carried a picture of Haile Maspin, a regime opponent who was killed last week in the city and called to close the Eritrean embassy in Israel, which they claim encourages violence against them

Also on Thursday, U.S.-led forces were reported to have shot down a drone over northern Syria as U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish militants