Interior Ministry

Former MK Oren Hazan physically attacks Ariel municipality employee in attempt to disrupt meeting

The municipality employee required medical attention following Hazan's attack, and the police were notified.

Likud MK Oren Hazan
Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem

High Court dismisses petition by expatriates seeking to vote in upcoming election

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (R) speaks to the media during a news conference at Leipzig/Halle Airport on August 5, 2026 near Leipzig, Germany.

Germany faces daily 'hybrid warfare' attacks, minister warns after explosive drone found at airport

Tel Aviv city hall

Israel: Deficit in 38% of authorities, 16% in "critical" financial condition


Gov't approves transferring funds to impoverished municipalities

About 78% will be given to Arab and Druze communities who were damaged by the coronavirus crisis.

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri

Municipal tax to rise by 2.58% in 2020

Musician Iyar Semel, 38, on his rooftop garden, where he grows herbs and vegetables, in Tel Aviv. Iyar planted an organic garden on his rooftop, with compost, vegetables, fruit trees and a shower, allowing him to merge his ecological lifestyle with the restraints of urban space.

Lebanon appoints first-ever female in charge of security in Arab world

Raya El Hassan was appointed as the interior minister after a nine-month government deadlock.

Lebanon's Minister of Finance Raya Haffar al-Hassan speaks during a news conference at her office in Beirut December 3, 2009. Lebanon may seek to borrow next year to help service existing debt and might also seek to reschedule some debts due in 2010 to benefit from low interest rates, Hassan said on

Fight over canceling residency of terrorist’s relatives goes to court

PIBA argued that emergency rules gave the interior minister the right to cancel residency statuses for clear and concrete security reasons.

Fadi al-Qanbar

Court orders Interior Ministry to register private Orthodox convert as Jew

The Interior Ministry has defied the spirit of a High Court of Justice ruling for 18 months by refusing to register as Jewish a woman who converted in a private, Orthodox rabbinical court.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem

Ethiopian Jew forced to pay deposit when visiting sick mother

“We feel insulted. This is humiliation, racism. Were he French or American, they wouldn’t have done it."

Ethiopian Jew

Ministry: Uganda Jews ineligible for aliya since they converted en masse

The Abayudaya community in Uganda began adopting Jewish religious practices at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ugandan Rabbi Harun Kintu Moses conducts a Hebrew language lesson at Hadassah School, a Jewish community institute in Mbale along the slopes of Mt.Elgon some 224km (139Mmiles) east of Uganda's capital Kampala, Uganda, February 10,2005

Despite ban, pro-BDS Dublin mayor enters Israel after name gaffe

Dublin Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha arrived in Ramallah despite a ban issued by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after the Immigration Authority received his name misspelled.

Dublin Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha

Arye Deri interrogated by police for eighth time in fraud probe

The interior minister said: I answered every question, everything is all right.

INTERIOR MINISTER Arye Deri at the Knesset

Govt. expected to approve aliyah of 1000 Ethiopians within a month

In all of 2017, only 1,308 Ethiopians were permitted to immigrate to Israel.

Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community attend a prayer service at the HaTikvah Synagogue in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, September 30, 2016.