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Shlomo Mor-Yosef

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
June 12, 2021, 3:37 am
Israel sees record number of travelers at airport since pre-COVID
Some 22,500 people pass through Ben Gurion Airport in a day, mostly Israelis traveling abroad, with Israel likely to let individual tourists in again at end of month
By ToI Staff
Passengers walk in the arrivals hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
June 10, 2021, 11:22 pm
Israel plans to allow individual tourists back into the country starting July 1
With okay already given to groups, interior minister recommends speedy entry process for those inoculated against coronavirus — from certain countries
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
December 10, 2020, 8:53 pm
Social distancing fiasco at airport as huge crowd gathers at passport control
TV news reporter publishes image showing hundreds of passengers crowded together; Interior Ministry said to send top immigration official to deal with matter
By ToI Staff
African migrants and their supporters demonstrate in Jerusalem on April 4, 2018, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cancellation of an agreement with the UN aimed at avoiding forced deportations. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
May 27, 2018, 11:07 pm
Israel to grant humanitarian status to 300 asylum seekers from Sudan
State has already given A5 humanitarian visas to 1,100 Sudanese, allowing them to drive, work, and travel
By Melanie Lidman
Students from Bialik School in South Tel Aviv, many of them children of African asylum-seekers, attend a pre-Passover seder in the schoolyard on March 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 25, 2018, 4:20 pm
How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis
The prime minister secured a win-win arrangement, but scrapped it under pressure. Now all the asylum-seekers are staying, Israel is being battered, and his rivals smell blood
By David Horovitz
African asylum seekers wait outside the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority office waiting to find out their status, in Bnei Brak, Israel, February 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 28, 2018, 1:57 pm
Population Authority: Half of the asylum seekers can stay if we deport the rest
Women, children, and married men requesting asylum will be able to receive permanent status if approximately 20,000 single men are sent away, director Shlomo Mor-Yosef says
By Melanie Lidman
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against their planned deportation in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya on January 22, 2018. (Flash90)
January 29, 2018, 12:21 am
Official leading migrant deportations says he thinks of quitting ‘all the time’
Mor-Yosef says it’s unlikely all 38,000 migrants will be deported; poll shows most Israelis favor expelling them
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A carer helping an elderly Israeli to cross the street in Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
July 10, 2017, 12:57 pm
MKs to demand master plan to aid elderly as ‘next big crisis’ looms
Population aged 65+ set to nearly double in next 20 years, and government is just ‘putting out fires,’ coalition lawmaker charges
By Sue Surkes
An ultrasound examination for a pregnant woman in Tel Aviv, on November 3, 2009. (Photo: Chen Leopold / Flash 90)
July 6, 2016, 3:37 am
Attorney-general: Let single women use surrogate mothers
Avichai Mandelblit urges legislation to broaden eligibility, but won’t recommend standard for single men, gay couples
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a woman begging in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 12, 2015, 9:07 pm
Poverty report downplays number of poor in Israel, says charity
‘Latet’ says true number of people who should be classified as poor is 2.6 milion, not the 1.7 million in official study
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a woman begging in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 9, 2015, 4:17 pm
One third of Israel’s children live in poverty, report says
National Insurance Institute statistics show there are 1.7 million people in the country who are considered poor
By Stuart Winer
A still image from footage of knife-wielding Palestinian teens who stabbed and wounded two Israelis in Jerusalem on Monday, October 12, 2015. (screen capture: Israel Police)
October 31, 2015, 1:38 pm
NII chief: No benefits for families of underage attackers
Shlomo Mor-Yosef says payments also to be frozen for injured assailants, spouses of those killed carrying out assaults
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of a pregnancy (photo credit: Shutterstock)
March 3, 2014, 1:53 am
Committee advances surrogacy for same-sex couples
Knesset bill would allow gay, lesbian and single parents-to-be to seek surrogate mothers in Israel
By Adiv Sterman
Workers of Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem protest outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on Monday, February 10, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 15, 2014, 1:23 am
Hadassah workers to intensify strike next week
Major Jerusalem hospitals operating on emergency basis over weekend after talks fail; health minister to probe crisis
By ToI Staff
Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, seen at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on February 12, 2014. (Flash 90)
February 12, 2014, 6:11 pm
Former hospital chief blames Hadassah for crisis
Shlomo Mor-Yosef accuses Zionist women’s organization of mishandling funds, bringing medical centers to financial ruin
By Spencer Ho
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