Interior Ministry

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
Coastal cliffs collapse between Hefer Valley and Netanya, December 28, 2025.
DESPITE BEING fully recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, many Orthodox converts are living in legal and social limbo, denied citizenship, as they face systemic bureaucracy and discrimination at the Interior Ministry. Here, 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
Demonstrators protest prior to the start of a trial of seven accused left extremists for membership in a criminal organisation on November 25, 2025 at the Higher Regional Court of Dresden, Germany. The seven defendants are alleged members of the 'Antifa East' gang suspected of attacks.

Members of US-targeted Antifa group face trial in Germany over violent attacks

Seven Members of the left-wing group Antifa Ost face trial in Germany for violence, including attempted murder. The group was recently designated as a terrorist organization by the US.

|ByREUTERS

What is Israel doing to address the passport backlog crisis?

New offices will be opened designated only to issuing passports.

MAY 1, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Illustrative image of Israeli biometric passports.

Shas MK Moshe Arbel to replace Deri as Israel's health, interior minister

Moshe Arbel will temporarily replace Arye Deri until the coalition is able to pass a law that will allow him to return.

APRIL 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ELIAV BREUER
SHAS MK Moshe Arbel: We don’t need to agree to everything, but we should disagree without hatred.

Letters to the Editor April 10, 2023: Travesty of justice

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

APRIL 10, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Israel's Interior Ministry must make aliyah for Jews easier - opinion

These bureaucratic overlords do not respect or revere the law and have gone way beyond what they should be permitted to judge as it pertains to one’s family heritage.

APRIL 5, 2023ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
An illustration picture shows a new Israeli passport and an Old Israeli passport with American Visa in Jerusalem, on January 18, 2023.

Antisemitism down in France, but majority of violent cases dismissed

"Antisemitism is not a threat only for French Jews. If antisemitism begins with the Jews, it never stops with the Jews," Yonathan Arfi, President of Crif said.

JANUARY 26, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'no to antisemitism', during a protest against antisemitism and to commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, at the Place de la Republique square in Paris, France, March 13, 2022.

Attorney-General to oppose appointment of Deri as minister -report

According to Basic Law: The Knesset, an Israeli citizen who has been given a prison sentence cannot serve as a member of the parliament or as a minister.

JANUARY 2, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
SHAS LEADER MK Arye Deri, August 2, 2021

Ayelet Shaked to 'Post': Goal isn't to fix global issues but to protect people in fear

The goal isn't to circumvent sovereign states' immigration policies or fix global issues but to focus on the important mission at hand - protect people fearing for their lives

DECEMBER 16, 2022ByAYELET SHAKED
A PROTEST was held in March outside the home of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked against the government’s policy of deporting some Ukrainian refugees.

Netanyahu requests extension for mandate to form coalition

Deri will take over as finance minister from Religious Zionists head MK Bezalel Smotrich in the second half of the government's term.

DECEMBER 8, 2022ByELIAV BREUER, TZVI JOFFRE
Likud head MK Benjamin Netanyahu is seen receiving the mandate to form Israel's next government from Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

‘Prove you’re a Jew!’ A cautionary tale for all immigrants in Israel

It is important for other Anglos to know about this story. It appears that neither age nor decades as an Israeli citizen ensure that an individual can avoid this irrational situation.

DECEMBER 2, 2022ByALBERT JACOB
The writer celebrating his 90th birthday with friends from ESRA Beersheba. (From left) Estelle Schulgasser, Jeremy Weil, Helen Stohl, Irwin and Ethel Weintraub, Dr. Albert Jacob, Carole Rosenblatt, Dr. John and Ruth Grabinar, Joan Avigur, Ingrid Barzel (chair of ESRA Beersheba) and Judy Levine.

Why does Israel discriminate against elderly olim? - opinion

It hurts me that the country I love can treat elderly immigrants in this manner. Israel was established as a haven for all Jews, irrespective of race, country of origin, or age.

OCTOBER 16, 2022ByLEAH SCHEIER
The writer poses with her husband and children. ‘An agent acknowledged that the roadblocks were intentional, to keep the elderly from making Israel their home, and presumably becoming a drain on resources,’ she says.