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FILE: Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 11, 2025, 11:05 pm
Netanyahu confidant Dermer plans to retire from politics before next election – report
Strategic affairs minister, PM’s close adviser and hostage negotiating team leader is said to have discussed move since end of Iran war, but has yet to decide on official date
By Michael Horovitz
Ministers in the newly sworn-in Israeli government pose for the traditional group photo at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)
July 19, 2021, 3:17 pm
Government axes 5 ministries, 4 of them set up last year
Water Resources, Cyber and National Digital Matters, Higher Education, Strategic Affairs, Community Empowerment and Advancement all to be absorbed into other offices
By Stuart Winer
Silhouettes are seen in front of the logo of US social media Facebook in Brussels, February 14, 2020. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
February 10, 2021, 7:02 pm
Israel urges social media giants to label anti-Semitic content
Ministers say companies should flag anti-Jewish posts in the same way they police misinformation about pandemic and elections
By ToI Staff
Blue and White MK and former Yeruham mayor Michael Biton, in the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
December 23, 2020, 9:14 pm
Strategic affairs minister says he’s examining shuttering his own ministry
Weeks after taking up post, Blue and White’s Michael Biton adopts position of ministry’s resigning director-general who says it should be merged with other government offices
By ToI Staff
A woman looks at a caricature by Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj depicting the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, holding a dove with Israel's flag on it, spitting in his face, with Arabic writing referring to Israel's opposition to the sale of US F-35 aircraft to the UAE, on August 27, 2020. (AFP)
October 11, 2020, 10:28 pm
Arab social media hyper-critical of normalization with Israel, ministry says
Nearly 90 percent of posts about Abraham Accords from the Arab world were negative, according to new report commissioned by Strategic Affairs Ministry
By Raphael Ahren
FILE -- People at a pro-Israel demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
October 3, 2020, 9:51 am
Strategic Affairs Ministry announces aid for pro-Israel groups as funding dives
Ministry says over 80% of major pro-Israel groups anticipate significant cuts in donor funding; doesn’t elaborate on how it will overcome restrictions on foreign government money
By Ron Kampeas
EU ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret at the president's residence in Jerusalem on October 23, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
May 7, 2020, 7:23 pm
Foreign Ministry rebukes EU ambassador over ‘support for terrorism’
Harsh dressing down follows EU official in West Bank and Gaza saying even Palestinians affiliated with blacklisted groups remain eligible to participate in EU-funded projects
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: EU representative to the Palestinians Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, right, hands more than 800 food packages to the PA's social development minister to be distributed to poor Palestinian families, April 30, 2020 (Facebook)
May 6, 2020, 10:38 pm
Israel fumes after EU says Palestinian terror supporters can still get funds
Foreign Ministry summons ambassador in response to envoy to West Bank and Gaza saying Palestinian grantees may include those affiliated with blacklisted groups
By Raphael Ahren
Human Rights Watch researcher Omar Shakir, during an interview in Jerusalem, November 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
November 25, 2019, 2:18 pm
On day of deportation, banned human rights activist vows to soldier on
Before heading to airport, Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir says he’ll continue advocating against settlements from Jordan; Jerusalem says organization welcome to send replacement
By Raphael Ahren
President Rivlin speaking at a anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem, June 20, 2019 /screen grab)
June 20, 2019, 11:14 am
Rivlin says calls for Israel boycott are ‘modern blood libels’
At BDS conference, president also warns against right-wing anti-Semitism ‘from those who claim to admire Israel;’ US anti-Semitism czar says the answer to BDS is ‘not censorship’
By Raphael Ahren
Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party's 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 16, 2019, 10:49 pm
PM said set to appoint Peretz, Smotrich as education, transportation ministers
Likud party confirms leaders of Union of Right Wing Parties to meet Netanyahu on Monday, as reports signal the two will also be offered seats on high-level security cabinet
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
June 12, 2019, 8:56 am
Mossad involved in Israel’s anti-BDS efforts – report
2018 meeting between Strategic Affairs Minister Erdan and Mossad chief Cohen part of coordination between the two bodies, according to one official
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinians and anti-Israel Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel, end the occupation and support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp)
June 11, 2019, 5:42 am
Israel shutters 30 BDS fundraising accounts by revealing alleged terror ties
Strategic Affairs Ministry says it quietly targets finances of anti-Israel groups in effort to expose connections to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PFLP
By ToI Staff
Pro-Israel supporters protesting outside the Irish parliament January 24, 2019, in opposition to a private member's bill that would criminalize the import and sale of settlement goods to Ireland. (Twitter)
May 16, 2019, 8:19 pm
State body wants to fund pro-Israel advocacy abroad
Strategic Affairs Ministry to unveil new program offering money for pro-Israel events and online efforts against boycott activists
By ToI Staff
Minister Gilad Erdan briefing US officials in Jerusalem, May 5, 2019 (courtesy)
May 6, 2019, 2:55 am
Gaza rockets ‘proof’ that withdrawals bound to fail, Erdan tells US diplomats
In Jerusalem, senior minister urges envoys to ‘persuade’ European governments to stop funding BDS organizations
By Raphael Ahren
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