Pnina Tamano-Shata

Lawmakers raise alarm over police treatment of Ethiopian community

During the session, Blue and White faction chair MK Pnina Tamano-Shata described the harassment and discrimination experienced by young members of the community at the hands of police officers.

|ByEFRAT FORSHER
MK Pnina Tamano-Shata speaks during a House committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on, December 29, 2025.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. November 3, 2025.

Ben-Gvir instructs police to skip Knesset committee meeting on missing girl Haymanut Kassau

The National Security Minister claimed that MK Gilad Kariv "spoke not nicely" to a police officer.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau.

Nearly two year after disappearance: Police arrest suspect linked to missing girl Haymanut Kasau

Footage obtained by Walla shows a man arriving at the home of a young girl in Beersheba, later reportedly identified as a close friend of the missing Kasau.

|ByYANIR YAGNA, EFRAT FORSHER, ELI ASHKENAZI, AVIHAI CHIIM
MKs Pnina Tameno-Shete and Sharren Haskel.

Not someday: Israel is ready for a new woman prime minister now - opinion

Israel’s democracy is mature enough for another woman prime minister, and leaders are already emerging.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE

Immigration Minister Tamano-Shata to visit French Jewish communities

Pnina Tamano-Shata will meet with French community heads and officials and participate in a memorial event at the site of the terror attack on Kosher-french supermarket Hyper Cacher

JULY 18, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION MINISTER Pnina Tamano-Shata welcomes new immigrants from France at Ben-Gurion Airport last month.

Despite the coronavirus, more than 20,000 olim came to Israel this year

Over the past decade, 262,905 people immigrated to Israel.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
38 Olim land in Israel as part of a Nefesh B’Nefesh Group Aliyah Flight

Last Ethiopian aliyah flight of Operation Rock of Israel arrives

Activists for community have criticized the government for failing to bring all remaining members of the Falash Mura in Ethiopia to Israel, who number at least another 5,500.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Ethiopian olim exiting the plane after touching down at Ben-Gurion Airport as part of Operation Rock of Israel..

Aliyah minister cancels welcome ceremony for Ethiopian immigrants

Blue and White alleges Netanyahu, Regev sought to politicize the event.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
New Ethiopian immigrants are seen at Ben-Gurion Airport on one of the first aliyah flights of the new year, on January 1, 2021.

Regev approves flights with 780 additional olim to start on Tuesday

JUNE 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Fifth Operation Rock of Israel flight lands in Israel

The immigrants will enter coronavirus quarantine for two weeks and then be reunited with family members who are waiting for them in Israel.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, JEREMY SHARON
The fifth flight of Operation Rock of Israel lands at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Aliyah & Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata awarded Magen Begin Prize

Tamano-Shata was chosen as the first recipient of the prize for her actions in the Knesset, promoting the very same social justice, equality and fight against discrimination that Begin did.

JUNE 9, 2021ByHADASSAH BRENNER
Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata was awarded the Magen Begin Prize for Leadership from the Begin Heritage Center.

Jewish veterans of the Red Army commemorate Victory in Europe Day

Alongside the veterans, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano Shata, as well as Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion were all present to honor the former fighters.

MAY 9, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Some five hundred Jewish Israeli veterans of the Soviet Red Army, their children and grandchildren, IDF soldiers and Israeli youth movement members turned out in Jerusalem on Sunday to mark the Soviet and allied victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

Ministers decry gov't restrictions on entry of olim relatives

It is currently extremely difficult for foreign nationals, including parents and children of immigrants, to visit Israel due to government restrictions.

APRIL 5, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
An Israeli family sits on the steps outside their apartment building in Jerusalem, as they stay at home with their children during a nation-wide quarantine, on March 31, 2020.

Grapevine February 7, 2021: Once there were Anglos in the Knesset

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 6, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MACCABI HNAMTE (72) and his wife, Sarah (70), were among the Bnei Menashe couples who remarried recently at Shavei Israel’s immigrant absorption center in Nordia.