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Gennevilliers Mayor Patrice Leclerc. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 17, 2018, 6:27 pm
After French mayor barred from W. Bank, Paris asks Israel to allow officials in
French foreign affairs ministry request follows Israel's refusal to permit entry to head of Paris suburb, due to his pro-Palestinian views, support for BDS
By TOI staff
Patrice Leclerc, mayor of the Parisian suburb of Gennevilliers. (YouTube screenshot)
April 16, 2018, 10:43 pm
Pro-Palestinian French mayor barred from entering Israel
Patrice Leclerc, who called for recognition of Palestine and honored terrorist Marwan Barghouti, was also refused entry in November
By TOI staff
Sintayehu Shafrao from Ethiopia, who is competing in the annual International Bible Quiz in Israel, receives a National ID from Israel Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri during a ceremony at the Interior ministry office in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash9)
April 15, 2018, 3:02 pm
Ethiopian Jew participating in Bible Quiz gets Israeli citizenship
Interior Ministry initially ordered contestant Sintayehu Shafrao, representing the Falashmura, to pay financial guarantee he would leave the country after contest
By Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes
Demonstrators in Dublin protest Israeli military operations in Gaza in early 2009. (CC BY/albertw via Flickr.com)
April 12, 2018, 6:33 pm
Israel slams Ireland over Dublin mayor’s Ramallah trip
Foreign Ministry summons Irish envoy after capital's city council endorses boycott and mayor seems to endorse Palestinian mufti who met Hitler
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: People stand in line to go through passport control at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel, September 21, 2008. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 11, 2018, 2:37 am
Israel tries to bar Dublin mayor, but fails because it spells his name wrong
Immigration officers were told to prevent Mícheál Mac Donncha from entering Israel en route to Ramallah after Irish capital passed two anti-Israel resolutions; too late, he tweets
By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren
African asylum seekers and Israeli activists protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, against their deportation, on April 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 10:33 pm
South TA activists who oppose deportations rail against migrant deal flip-flop
Group of residents slam Netanyahu for shutting them out of meeting he held with locals who support expulsion, say government using residents to justify deportations
By TOI staff
Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay speaks at a press conference with former senior security officials in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 4:19 pm
Opposition leaders blast ‘spineless’ PM after he cancels his own migrant deal
MKs accuse Netanyahu of putting politics ahead of policy as he nixes plan to resettle 16,250 African asylum seekers in Western countries and give similar number temporary residency
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announce a new refugee deal with the UN, hours before suspending it, April 2, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 12:58 pm
After flip-flop, Netanyahu formally cancels deal to let 16,000 migrants stay
Buckling under criticism, PM says government will now 'exhaust all of the options' at its disposal 'for expelling the infiltrators'
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)
April 3, 2018, 9:21 am
Outed by Netanyahu as ‘third-party country,’ Rwanda denies migrant agreement
In flip-flop, PM accuses African country of caving to pressure; Rwandan minister: 'There was never a deal with Israel'
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri (L), and National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben Shabat (R), at a press conference announcing the new agreement for handling asylum seekers and illegal African migrants in Israel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 3, 2018, 12:52 am
Opposition leaders lambaste ‘cowardly’ Netanyahu after U-turn on migrant deal
After he suspended new resettlement agreement for African asylum seekers that would have given 16,250 temporary residency, lawmakers accuse PM of caving to right-wing pressure
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement with the UN on African asylum seekers in Israel at a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on April 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 2, 2018, 11:26 pm
Hours after announcing it, Netanyahu suspends deal to let 16,000 migrants stay
Buckling under criticism, PM says he hears 'residents of south Tel Aviv,' will reexamine agreement only after consultations with them and interior minister
By TOI staff
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 2, 2018, 10:49 pm
High Court demand scuttled migrant deportation plan – report
Rwanda said to have refused to deploy inspectors; Netanyahu says asylum seekers who stay will be sent to kibbutzim
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks with the press ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
April 2, 2018, 7:40 pm
Bennett: Migrant deal will turn Israel into ‘paradise for infiltrators’
Education minister blasts agreement as a 'complete capitulation to false campaign' against plan to deport asylum seekers
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press in his Jerusalem office on April 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
April 2, 2018, 5:57 pm
Netanyahu: 16,250 migrants to resettle in ‘developed countries,’ rest will stay
PM says 'political difficulties' prevented intended deportation to Uganda and Rwanda, brought about new deal with UN; vows to rehabilitate south Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Beitar Jerusalem fans during the match between Bnei Sakhnin F.C. and Beitar Jerusalem, at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on January 22, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 9:02 pm
Israel allows soccer players to continue Shabbat matches
Labor and social affairs minister signs general waiver to preserve status quo of the sport as part of compromise with ultra-Orthodox parties
By AFP
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