Mizrahi

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

The ruling cancels two sections of police procedure: Requiring ID based on generalized “concern” of an offense, and verifying a person’s details on the police computer without reasonable suspicion.

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
 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'

 Jewish girls at a school performance in Benghazi, Lybia.

Zionism beyond Europe: Restoring the Mizrahi narrative in Jewish education - opinion

Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, shakes the hand of a cab driver while campaigning in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood during early voting, in New York City, U.S., October 27, 2025

Jews from the Middle East know Mamdani is a threat to Israel – opinion


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.

Avnery’s legacy

When we hear today about Israel abandoning its democratic traditions or criticism about issues it should all be seen through the lens of Avnery’s critiques of the 1960s.

Uri Avnery at protest

Uprooting of Jews from Arab countries, an answer to modern antisemitism

To be able to reach a peaceful solution, the forced migration of Jews from Arab countries must be acknowledged as one of the tragedies of this long and painful conflict.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)