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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Nachman Shai

Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora affairs and social equality, arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 25, 2024, 6:36 pm
Damning Tel Aviv University report calls to shutter Diaspora Ministry
Ministry ‘lacks vision and substance,’ according to report from Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry; ex-minister says Diaspora interests need a seat at the table
By Sam Sokol
Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ; Right: US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides at Reichman University in Herzliya, September 11, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 19, 2023, 12:43 pm
Netanyahu: ‘I’d like to calm our friends — Israel will remain a vibrant democracy’
After US envoy calls to ‘pump brakes’ on judicial shakeup, head of Knesset law panel says ambassador would ‘stammer’ if pressed to articulate his overhaul criticism
By Alexander Fulbright
Left to right: Deputy Health Minister Moshe Arbel, outgoing health minister Nitzan Horowitz, Health Minister Aryeh Deri, and outgoing health ministry director-general Nachman Ash at a handover ceremony at the ministry, January 1, 2023. (GPO)
January 1, 2023, 1:50 pm
Snubs, warnings against discrimination in healthcare, as ministers hand over duties
Former health minister Horowitz warns successor Deri that politics must stay out of health system; Justice Minister Levin, Transportation Minister Regev skip traditional events
By ToI Staff
Noam MK Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 4:18 am
‘Insanity, unreal’: Netanyahu slammed over deal with anti-pluralistic, homophobic MK
Politicians from outgoing coalition say Likud chief’s agreement to put Avi Maoz in charge of Israel’s Jewish identity is a ‘slap in the face,’ could ‘plunge Israel into the abyss’
By Michael Bachner
Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu visits at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, the night before the Israeli general elections, October 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 27, 2022, 2:23 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 27: Changes to Law of Return & a missed moment for Diaspora Jews
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian with updates on Jerusalem bombings and violence in Hebron; Diaspora and religion reporter Judah Ari Gross on Minister Nachman Shai’s regrets
By ToI Staff
Then Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 24, 2022, 1:39 pm
Diaspora minister: ‘Not implementing Western Wall compromise was a historic failure’
As he prepares to leave office, Nachman Shai tells ToI he’s proud to have restarted dialogue between Israel and US Jewry, sees Netanyahu as the only hope for maintaining these ties
By Judah Ari Gross
Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)
November 11, 2022, 10:48 pm
$2.3 million plan to improve ties with non-Orthodox Jews uncertain after election
Watchdog reveals existence of plan to bring American youth to Israel and hold communal events in the US, without any apparent reference to issues driving disconnect
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 17, 2022, 10:43 pm
Israeli sources say minister’s call to arm Ukraine doesn’t represent government
Comments to Hebrew media come after Russian ex-president warned move would ‘destroy all’ ties between Jerusalem and Moscow
By ToI Staff
Russian Security Council deputy chairman and head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting outside Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2022 (Ekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)
October 17, 2022, 2:21 pm
Russian ex-president: If Israel sends weapons to Ukraine it will destroy Moscow ties
Putin ally Medvedev says Israeli move would be ‘reckless’; warning comes after Israeli minister called to give Kyiv military aid after reports Iran to supply Russia with missiles
By ToI Staff
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
August 29, 2022, 11:14 am
WZO marks 125th anniversary of 1st Zionist Congress with lavish, costly Swiss affair
Organization says its confab in Basel is meant to send a message to ‘millions of Jews’ about Zionism, but they can’t even watch most of the invite-only event online
By Avner Hofstein and Judah Ari Gross
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai addresses a World Zionist Organization conference marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, on August 28, 2022. (Courtesy)
August 28, 2022, 11:48 pm
Diaspora minister calls for new paradigm in Israel’s ties to Jews abroad
In speech at event marking 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, Nachman Shai says foreign Jews must play greater role in Jerusalem’s decision-making
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda battalion are seen at a military base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
August 24, 2022, 10:51 pm
Minister wants religious battalion shut amid new case of troops beating Palestinians
Nahman Shai, who was military spokesperson in 1980s, calls for closure of IDF’s Netzah Yehuda, as soldiers again accused of wanton violence in West Bank
By Emanuel Fabian
Labor MK Naama Lazimi reacts to the results of the Labor party primary elections in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 9, 2022, 10:00 pm
Young guard grab top spots in Labor primary; Barlev and Shai seemingly ousted
Neophyte lawmakers Naama Lazimi, Gilad Kariv, Efrat Rayten, Ram Shefa, and Emilie Moatti at top of roster behind party leader Merav Michaeli
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
File: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference in Kyiv, June 16, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP, File)
July 3, 2022, 6:06 pm
Ukraine’s Zelensky hails Israeli court for striking down refugee quota
Ukraine president says High Court ruling upholds ‘rule of law and respect for human rights’; Israel’s diaspora affairs minister: ‘Ruling embodies our moral duty as a Jewish nation’
By ToI Staff
Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai attends the Jewish People's Lobby, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 12, 2022, 4:10 pm
Minister on probe into reporter’s death: ‘Israel’s credibility not the highest’
Nachman Shai says non-Israeli pathologist would lend ‘international credibility’ to investigation of Shireen Abu Akleh’s shooting; right-wing lawmakers slam ‘false slanders’
By ToI Staff
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