Mizrahi

Who does Israel belong to? Why Bennett’s model matters now - opinion

From public policy to bomb shelters, Israel faces a test of unity, fairness, and responsibility that will shape its future as a nation.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
‘A Ma’apilim Ship,’ painting  by Marcel Janco (see Friday).

Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem

High Court of Justice strikes down police ID-check procedures due to racial profiling

 Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

Bereaved parents call on Ben-Gurion University to dismiss prof. who called IDF soldiers 'murderers'


Regev defends PM against accusations of racism

Regev, whose parents came to Israel from Morocco, was on a Channel 13 talk show last week why she was not part of a selfie Netanyahu took with the top seven candidates in Likud.

Culture Minister Miri Regev

Report on racism in Israel shows significant rise in reported incidents

The complaints mainly addressed racist statements and publications, discrimination in receiving service, discrimination in employment, racism by the police and racism in education.

Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans hold a banner against violence and racism ahead of their team's match against Bnei Sakhnin in an Israeli Premier League game, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem February 10, 2013. The banner reads, "Against violence and racism in the field". REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Israel's third largest bank to pay $195 m. in U.S. tax case settlement

In a quarterly earnings report in August, the bank said it had set aside 425 million shekels ($117.75 million) during the quarter to cover a likely fine by US authorities.

A man enters a branch of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank in Jerusalem August 29, 2011.

Mizrahi Jewish spies built Israel, their descendants meet racism there

While America had closed its gates to the Jews of the Middle East, my family heard word of a safe haven for the Jewish people: Israel.

Hen Mazzig

Egypt's alleged plan to fund Jewish site restoration may be propaganda ploy

Last month, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani announced that Sisi had earmarked the money to rehabilitate Jewish monuments and houses of worship in the country.

A synagogue that was the target of an attack is seen in Cairo February 21, 2010. An unidentified man hurled a suitcase containing a primitive explosive device at the synagogue in central Cairo on Sunday but it exploded without injuring anyone, the Interior Ministry said.

A bridge back to Yemen

While many would look back and focus on the trauma of such a period and the shock of arriving in a new country, Avraham remembers it as sweet and full of wonder.

LEA AVRAHAM – a seminal part of the Israeli dance community.

Why is the story of the Jewish refugees so little known?

The question of Arab and Islamist anti-Jewish hatred goes to the heart of the conflict with Israel. So why have Jewish refugees been so neglected?

YEMENITE JEWS living in an absorption camp in Israel in 1950

Uprooted

UPROOTED: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight Lyn Julius Vallentine Mitchell 368 pages; $37.95

Yemen Blues to highlight US Sephardi music fest

The festival is being headlined by Renan Koen, a Sephardi classical pianist from Turkey.

Yemen Blues

The art and science of changing tomorrow

Two EMET Prize winners alter the realities of their respective fields.

Sociologist Eva Illouz (Right) and Geneticist Ephrat Levy - Lahad. 2018 Emet prize winners.