expulsion

Screen capture from video showing alleged crime lord Assi Ben-Mosh, right, on a flight after being expelled from Colombia. (Screen capture: YouTube)

August 5, 2018, 10:34 pm

Colombia issues warrant for Israeli kingpin after arrest of sex ring suspects

Assi Ben-Mosh suspected of involvement with child trafficking ring, where over 250 girls aged 14-17 were forced to have sex with locals and tourists

By TOI staff

Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, 'Based on a True Story,' in Krakow, Poland, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo)

May 10, 2018, 7:52 am

Polanski threatens to sue Oscars body after expulsion

Academy Ward-winning director demands ‘fair hearing,’ dismisses #MeToo movement as ‘mass hysteria’ and ‘hypocrisy’

By AFP

Russian diplomats expelled by the US after a nerve agent attack on a former spy leave their embassy in Washington, D.C, March 31, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ZACH GIBSON)

April 1, 2018, 10:21 am

Russia, US diplomats pack their bags after tit-for-tat expulsions

60 Russian diplomats leaving Washington, 60 US diplomats prepare to quit Saint Petersburg, as relations between Russia and West sink to new low over ex-Russian spy attack

By Sylvie LANTEAUME and Marina Koreneva

November 27, 2017, 10:02 am

Colombia deports suspected Israeli crime lord

Assi Ben-Mosh was accused of dealing drugs, coercing minors into prostitution, evading taxes, and ‘harming security’ of the country

By TOI staff

From left to right: Episcopal Vicar Raffaele Mangano, who handed over the key to the former Oratory of Santa Maria Delle Grazie al Sabato on behalf of the Archbishop Corrado Lorefice, Shavei Israel chairman Michael Freund, Ariel Finzi from the Jewish Community of Naples, vice president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Giulio Disegni. (Courtesy)

February 2, 2017, 12:58 am

500 years after being wiped out, Sicilian Jewish life is reborn

A vibrant community was expelled from Sicily under the Spanish Inquisition in 1493. What is causing residents to rediscover their hidden roots today?

By Rossella Tercatin

Coalition Chairman David Bitan seen with Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (R) during a Knesset committee meeting in the Knesset, on March 23, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 15, 2017, 4:48 pm

Ministers delay vote on bill to expel terrorists’ families

Legislation that attorney general said violates Israeli and international law to be shelved 3 more months

By TOI staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama meet at the G20 summit being held in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, September 5, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

December 30, 2016, 5:13 pm

Putin blocks expulsion of US diplomats, looks to Trump

Shock decision comes after his foreign ministry requested expulsions in retaliation for similar move by Obama in election cyberattack row

By Max Delany

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 14, 2016, 4:00 pm

Kahlon backs proposal to expel families of terrorists

Finance minister says controversial move will deter terror, vows to oppose de-funding artists who are ‘disloyal’ to the state

By Marissa Newman

File: Syrian President Bashar Assad listening to a question during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus, February 11, 2016. (AFP/JOSEPH EID)

March 14, 2016, 1:55 pm

Assad says Russia to draw down, not pull out

Syrian president praises cooperation with Moscow for ‘returning security to the country’; French envoy for Mideast peace confab meeting Israeli officials; Western Wall rabbi pulls support for egalitarian prayer space

By Raoul Wootliff

Police take up positions at the scene of a shooting attack on Salah a-Din street in Jerusalem on March 8, 2016. (United Hatzalah)

March 10, 2016, 11:39 pm

Israel expels terrorist’s family from Jerusalem to West Bank

Father and four siblings of Fouad Tamimi, who shot and wounded two policemen on Tuesday, did not have permission to live in capital

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 2, 2016, 2:31 pm

Netanyahu advances bid to expel attackers’ families to Gaza

PM seeks attorney general’s opinion, saying the measure ‘will lead to a significant decrease in terror attacks’

By Raphael Ahren

File: Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on January 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

February 28, 2016, 12:59 pm

Attorney general: Israel can’t expel terrorists’ families to Gaza

Avichai Mandelblit says deportations supported by Likud ministers would contravene Israeli and international law

By Stuart Winer

Haim Casas surrounded by congregants at Atid in Barcelona, 2015. (Antoni Moreno)

February 9, 2016, 11:29 pm

First Cordoba-born rabbi since 1492 expulsion set on reversing history

After his ordination next year in London, Haim Casas to return to Maimonides’ home town to build progressive Jewish life inspired by great Sephardic legacy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

French Jewish author Tobie Nathan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, G. Garitan)

December 19, 2015, 8:58 am

Jewish author wins top Tunisian prize for book on Cairo expulsion

Jury of Goncourt List votes to give its first-ever award to Tobie Nathan for ‘This Country that Resembles You’

By JTA

Ashley Perry, president of Reconectar and director of the Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities, at the caucus launch October 13, 2015. (Jeffrey P Worthington)

October 14, 2015, 5:56 pm

Knesset caucus aims to ‘reconnect’ with descendants of Sephardi Jews

It is a moral imperative to strengthen ties with the ‘bnei anusim’ who are now being embraced by Spain and Portugal, says caucus director Ashley Perry

By Amanda Borschel-Dan