The Corona Cabinet unanimously approved the Health, Finance and Defence ministries’ proposal to prepare for the scenario of some 2,500 Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients on life support and “many hundreds of dead,” as the numbers of infections in Israel climb daily.
Extremely stormy weather hit Israel on Wednesday, causing deadly floods and significant damage to infrastructure and property, the latest winter wave to hit the country in the past week.
A psychiatric panel in Israel on Thursday decided that alleged sex offender Malka Leifer from Australia is mentally fit to stand trial and has been feigning mental illness.
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef came under harsh criticism after he recently blamed immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who are not Jewish, for the weakening electoral power of the ultra-Orthodox parties.
Israel’s security is currently challenged on multiple fronts, and the government’s present policy could lead to a large-scale war in the region if it is not updated in the near future, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said in its annual report on Monday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening announced that he plans to request parliamentary immunity from the Knesset regarding the criminal charges he faces and will notify the Knesset Speaker of his request before the deadline at midnight.
Defence Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday approved freezing NIS 150 million (A$62m) of taxes and tariffs Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the payments it makes to terrorists and their families, dubbed “pay-for-slay.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a rare media interview on Wednesday, in which he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that if someone else was serving as Israel’s prime minister — Israel and Russia could have been at war.
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday signed an order to confiscate the monthly stipends paid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to convicted terrorists with Israeli citizenship and their families.
The Israeli left-wing NGO Adalah announced this week that it is “prepared to submit legal material” to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to aid its war crimes probe against Israel.
Israeli TV received global recognition on Friday when the New York Times chose Israel’s “Prisoners of War” as the best international TV show of the decade.
