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‘Lucky there were no children’: School near Tel Aviv ravaged by Houthi missile warhead

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:52:16 +0000

Ramat Gan mayor estimates damage at $11 million, says collapsed building will be rebuilt; visiting site, education minister says students will be back in same school soon

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Activists again cuff themselves to Tel Aviv light rail to protest Shabbat stoppage

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:22:20 +0000

Several dozen people protest at Allenby Station on day's last tram, causing service to stop and driver to leave; police on the scene

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Ramat Gan to launch Shabbat shuttle service along Tel Aviv light route

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:52:29 +0000

Mayor's announcement will likely please residents of his largely secular suburb; comes two months ahead of municipal elections, when he'll aim to win a second term

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Mayors warn they won’t transfer local taxes to coalition’s contentious planned fund

Tue, 16 May 2023 09:55:18 +0000

Municipal leaders of Givatayim and Ramat Gan say they'll take matter to court; strike continues, but children return to school; protesters rally outside housing minister's home

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School principal faces ministry probe for slamming Ben Gvir at Rabin memorial event

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:33:05 +0000

Education Ministry to summon Merav Schreiber for saying far-right leader's potential appointment as public security minister will raise danger of another political assassination

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Mayor won’t remove Ben Gvir party poster calling to ‘banish enemy’ Arab faction MKs

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:11:01 +0000

Ramat Gan council chief says Otzma Yehudit billboard over highway can stay unless he's ordered otherwise; deputy mayor files police complaint; MK says it's 'incitement to murder'

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Palestinian flag comes off Ramat Gan tower after outcry

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:03:38 +0000

Left-wing group says it hung flags in support of coexistence; police reportedly warned city there could be 'disturbances of the peace'

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Mayor under fire for saying it was ‘easiest to despair, be killed in Holocaust’

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:05:25 +0000

Ramat Gan's Carmel Shama-Hacohen goes on to remark at Remembrance Day ceremony that 'the hardest part was surviving hardships and establishing a state'

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Ramat Gan art museum shuts its doors due to feud over controversial painting

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:19:10 +0000

Gallery says it was unable to reach a compromise with artists who pulled their works in protest at removal of installation deemed offensive to ultra-Orthodox

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Artists feud with Ramat Gan museum over painting removed for slur against Haredim

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:55:41 +0000

Dozens of artists demand their works be removed until exhibit by David Reeb -- captioned 'Jerusalem of gold, Jerusalem of shit' alongside photo of ultra-Orthodox man -- is returned

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Lockdown lite: Closure sees patchy compliance, has little impact on traffic

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:59:38 +0000

Cellphone provider finds just 18% drop in use of navigation app, barely half the fall for previous closures; buses packed as service cut 50%; Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda partly open

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Sa’ar party gets first boost as Derech Eretz MKs Hendel, Hauser join up

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:10:58 +0000

Self-described right-wing MKs lament lack of leadership from Netanyahu, who they say has become obsessed with his own legal and political survival: 'This government has failed'

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More MKs expected to join Sa’ar’s party, which poll predicts will be 3rd biggest

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:03:29 +0000

Both Derech Eretz lawmakers seem set to back Likud MK, who's forming a movement to challenge Netanyahu for premiership; colleagues from Likud may follow

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Grades 1-3 and 11-12 to open Sunday, but kindergartens will stay shut for a week

Fri, 01 May 2020 10:45:26 +0000

Remaining students set to return June 1; ultra-Orthodox schools to open grades 7-12 instead; Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan say schools won't yet reopen in those municipalities

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Ramat Gan erects fences to block Bnei Brak residents, is ordered to remove them

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:11:36 +0000

Interior Ministry: Municipality not authorized to stop foot traffic from virus-stricken neighbor; Bnei Brak mayor decries 'ghetto'

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