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Sue Surkes
Religious boys playing basketball, June 13, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
April 23, 2018, 4:59 pm
Half of Tel Aviv school principals to boycott gender-separated games event
After Education Ministry rules that religious sensitivities should be considered, deputy mayor says decision 'unacceptable' in secular city that has 'championed equality'
By Sue Surkes
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, left, and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked during a faction meeting of their Jewish Home party in the Knesset, February 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 23, 2018, 2:59 pm
Bennett tweets 2015 coalition deal, demands Likud support to rein in High Court
As he pushes for legislation allowing Knesset to overrule the court with a vote by 61 MKs, Jewish Home head says he expects Likud to honor its promises
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a wrecked car being lifted by a crane on January 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
April 23, 2018, 9:26 am
Seven arrested in massive alleged car insurance scam
Garage owners and appraisers among suspects in deliberate smashing of vehicles for fake claims worth hundreds of millions of shekels; police said expecting to detain 100 suspects
By Sue Surkes
Orthodox Jews in Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY. (YouTube screenshot)
April 22, 2018, 2:24 pm
Firefighter who tweeted against Jews posted to ultra-Orthodox NY neighborhood
Joseph M. Cassano, son of former fire commissioner, once wrote online, 'I like jews about as much as hitler'
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)
April 22, 2018, 2:01 pm
Jewish Home head calls vote on bid to hobble Supreme Court
Despite Netanyahu's bid to delay, Bennett says ministers will next week debate a clause allowing Knesset to re-approve laws nixed by justices
By Sue Surkes
Actress Natalie Portman attends the 4th annual festival kick-off fundraising soiree during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada, September 9, 2015. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images/AFP)
April 22, 2018, 11:55 am
Natalie Portman’s snub ‘borders on anti-Semitism,’ says minister
Yuval Steinitz says boycotting Netanyahu 'is boycotting Israel,' star actress 'played into the hands of Israel-haters'
By Sue Surkes
Senior Likud lawmaker and former head of the Shin Bet security services Avi Dichter appeals in Arabic to the residents of Gaza to abandon terror. (YouTube screenshot)
April 20, 2018, 6:16 pm
Senior Likud MK appeals directly to Gazans in Arabic: ‘Quit terror’
Avi Dichter, former head of the Shin Bet internal security service, urges 'Alzheimer-suffering' Gazans to 'wake up' and see that violence will only lead them to 'catastrophe'
By Sue Surkes
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his Dutch counterpart in Moscow on April 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)
April 20, 2018, 4:57 pm
Russia’s ‘moral obligation’ not to sell air defense to Syria is over — Lavrov
Russian foreign minister blames US attack on Syria for changing rules. Ex-head of Israeli military intelligence: 'If Syria gets the S-300 system, Israel will blow it up'
By Sue Surkes
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (R) attends a ceremony for the incoming Austrian ambassador to Israel, Martin Weiss, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, February 1, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
April 16, 2018, 2:18 am
Austrian envoy to attend Knesset debate on boycott of far-right Freedom Party
Former Labor party leader Amir Peretz intervenes after Israeli Foreign Ministry opposes Ambassador Martin Weiss taking part in meeting
By Sue Surkes
The ruins of the Kibbutz Ein Gedi beach on January 3, 2017. Sinkholes forced the closure of the beach in 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 15, 2018, 6:50 pm
Israel to pump nearly $120m into Dead Sea communities facing sinkholes
Grant, to be paid over four years, will be earmarked for tourism, transport, agriculture and research. 'No short- or medium-term engineering solutions,' says PMO
By Sue Surkes
Sintayehu Shafrao from Ethiopia, who is competing in the annual International Bible Quiz in Israel, receives a National ID from Israel Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri during a ceremony at the Interior ministry office in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash9)
April 15, 2018, 3:02 pm
Ethiopian Jew participating in Bible Quiz gets Israeli citizenship
Interior Ministry initially ordered contestant Sintayehu Shafrao, representing the Falashmura, to pay financial guarantee he would leave the country after contest
By Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes
The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 12, 2018, 5:00 pm
Poll: Most Americans believe Holocaust could happen again
Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was
By Sue Surkes
US film director Steven Spielberg poses on the red carpet on arrival for the European premiere of his film 'The Post' in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)
April 12, 2018, 2:11 pm
Steven Spielberg said to turn down invite to light Independence Day torch
Acclaimed film director 'very moved' by offer to light Diaspora torch next Wednesday but is committed to filming plans
By Sue Surkes
Salma Hayek, left, Sacha Baron Cohen, center, and Isla Fisher pose together at the 2013 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (photo credit: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
April 12, 2018, 2:11 pm
Sacha Baron Cohen to play Israeli spy Eli Cohen on Netflix
'The Spy,' a six-episode drama on Mossad agent executed by Syria, will be written by Gideon Raff, creator of 'Homeland'
By Sue Surkes
Israel's Ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari. (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2018, 11:38 am
Israeli envoy to Poland says attempting to nix Holocaust law inadvisable
Anna Azeri explains a move to cancel controversial legislation would ignite renewed inflammatory debate, hopes its scope will reduced by courts
By Sue Surkes
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