Interior Ministry

PFLP-linked NGO closes Palestinian branch, citing Israel's red tape

Defense for Children International-Palestine announces closure, citing Israeli restrictions, while Israel has long designated the group as linked to the PFLP.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A person wearing the headband of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) attends a march to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil on March 11, 2025 in New York City; illustrative.
Coastal cliffs collapse between Hefer Valley and Netanya, December 28, 2025.

Coastal cliffs between Hefer Valley, Netanya collapse due to heavy rainfall from Storm Byron

No injuries were reported, but local officials warned of an ongoing national safety risk and accused the state of failing to allocate funding for coastal protection.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Women pray at the Western Wall.

Recognized by the rabbinate, Orthodox converts trapped in legal limbo over Israeli citizenship

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: “Why do I have to keep proving myself? Am I a second-class Jew?” said an Orthodox converted Jewish woman in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

|ByBATSHEVA SHULMAN
Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

Israel’s Supreme Court blocks automatic citizenship for non-Jewish children of immigrants

The 6-1 decision by the Supreme Court overturns a precedent set only months earlier, and restores the Interior Ministry’s longstanding interpretation of the law.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Prominent member of halted Egyptian opposition campaign injured in attack

Pictures later posted on social media and verified by the victim's family show him with a badly battered eye and a blood-soaked bandage wrapped around his knee.

JANUARY 27, 2018ByREUTERS
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Tempers flare in Knesset hearing over deportation of Kenyan Jew

After a Jewish Kenyan man with a valid visa was deported, the Interior Ministry faced a difficult hearing in the Knesset about the decisions they made in removing the man from the country.

JANUARY 3, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON
sraeli lawmakers attend a vote on a bill at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 6, 2017