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Foreign Ministry workers protesting in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads "Strike here." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2018, 5:40 pm
Strike disrupts consular services at Israeli missions abroad
Some 600 supporting workers, but no diplomats, protest Finance Ministry ‘stalling’ on agreement meant to improve employment conditions
By Raphael Ahren
In this August 15, 2016, illustrative photo, a car drives along a mountain road that leads to Spiti Valley, a remote Himalayan valley situated at 4000 meter above sea level, India. (AP Photo/Thomas Cytrynowicz)
June 5, 2018, 10:17 am
Israeli consul says tourists injured in deadly crash in India are conscious
Eli Sneh to help fly 4 Israelis back home, along with body of Adva Ben Dahan, 36, who went on trip after she was fired from Teva
By Michael Bachner
Entrance to the Israeli Consulate in New York City (screen capture: Google Street View)
April 27, 2018, 6:20 pm
State of emergency briefly declared at Israel’s NY consulate; suspect detained
Security personnel feared individual loitering at building was wearing explosive belt; he wasn’t
By TOI staff
Foreign Ministry workers protest outside the ministry's offices in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads 'Here there is a strike.' (Meital Cohen/Flash90)
January 10, 2018, 9:43 am
Officials warn looming Foreign Ministry cuts will harm Israel’s image overseas
Diplomats say slashes a ‘patently political move’; ambassador: Treasury officials must have been ‘smoking cannabis when they wrote this crazy proposal’
By Sue Surkes
Israel's Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2017, 12:38 pm
Security officer quits after locking consul in Israeli embassy in Asia — report
Envoy was trapped inside building for over an hour as officials tried to locate guard, who had gone home
By Stuart Winer
Entrance to the Israeli Consulate in New York City (screen capture: Google Street View)
October 29, 2017, 5:20 pm
Envelope containing white powder mailed to Israeli consulate in NY
Hate letter decorated with swastikas, written in Hebrew; unidentified substance declared nontoxic
By JTA
Entrance to the Israeli Consulate in New York City (screen capture: Google Street View)
September 18, 2017, 10:17 pm
Israel’s NY consulate briefly closed for 2nd time in 4 days over threat
Envelope with white powder, death threat against Netanyahu sent to building soon after PM ends meeting with Trump
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential house in Buenos Aires on September 12, 2017. (AFP/ JUAN MABROMATA)
September 15, 2017, 10:12 pm
Israeli consulate in NYC briefly shut after death threat to PM, white powder
Envelope contained threat directed at Netanyahu, who was en route to New York; employees allowed to leave after all clear given
By TOI staff
Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 28, 2017, 10:04 am
Israel’s consulates in the US gird for protests over Western Wall
Memo lays out strategy for explaining decision to suspend deal on prayer pavilion; some federations said to reevaluate contributions to Israel
By Sue Surkes
Dani Dayan
June 18, 2017, 3:40 pm
Dani Dayan
Why I can’t stay silent about Sarsour
No ethical human being should collaborate on any matter with one who condones terrorism and wants Israel eliminated
From left, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Consul General Sam Grundwerg, and Muslim community activist Mahomed Akbar Khan marking the holy month of Ramadan at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles, June 15, 2017. (Michelle Mivzari via JTA)
June 17, 2017, 10:10 am
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Israeli Ramadan event
Basketball Hall of Famer, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons attend LA consulate event to advance interfaith relations
By JTA
New World Tower in Miami, home of Israel's consulate (Screen capture: Google maps)
February 16, 2017, 9:53 pm
Israel’s Miami consulate evacuated after bomb threat
Workers return as police find no evidence of explosives in 30-story skyscraper, in latest in series of false alarms
By TOI staff
Newly-appointed Israeli Consul General in New York Dani Dayan seen at the opening of a conference discussing issues and ways to fight the boycott Israel movement, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 23, 2016, 2:28 am
Cabinet approves PM’s pick of ex-settler leader as NY envoy
Netanyahu named Dani Dayan as consul general to New York after Brazil rejected him as Israel ambassador
By Tamar Pileggi
Illustrative photo of shelves filled with books. (CC BY 2.0 Stewart Butterfield/Wikipedia)
April 6, 2016, 9:01 am
US writers festival rebuffs call to reject Israeli sponsorship
PEN American Center says it opposes ‘cultural boycotts of any kind’ after Pulitzer winners urge group to keep Israel out of World Voices fest
By JTA
Illustrative: People wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration supporting Israel in Marseille, southeastern France, on July 27, 2014. (AFP/Boris Horvat)
April 5, 2016, 12:01 am
French Jews protest planned closure of Israel’s Marseille consulate
Move would force members of Europe’s third-largest Jewish community to travel hundreds of miles to nearest mission, activists fume
By Raphael Ahren
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