Topic: Eli Yishai

Netanyahu heckled at fire memorial

AFP Global Edition - 405 days ago
Angry mourners on Wednesday heckled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and forced another minister to leave a memorial service for 44 people killed in Israel's worst forest fire.Netanyahu was speaking at a state memorial service marking 30 days since their deaths ...

Report blames blaze on neglect of fire services

AFP Global Edition - 433 days ago
A government watchdog report released Wednesday after Israel's worst-ever fire said the fire services suffered from systematic neglect and laid much of the blame on Interior Minister Eli Yishai.The scathing report detailed serious inadequacies in the nation's firefighting abilities ...

Israeli minister attacked in Jerusalem

Reuters US Online Report World News - 631 days ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters threw stones at Israeli cabinet minister Eli Yishai and slashed the tires of his vehicle in Jerusalem Monday, but he was whisked away from the scene unharmed, police said.Yishai, who is Israel's interior minister and ...

Born in Israel but unwanted by the Jewish state

AFP Global Edition - 833 days ago
Eight-year-old Stephanie is not afraid of deportation. But like hundreds of Israeli-born children of illegal foreign workers, she faces the prospect of being expelled from the only home she's ever known.Some 1,200 Asian and African children born in Israel ...

Israeli minister plugs for settlement expansion

Reuters US Online Report World News - 918 days ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A key political ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel must go ahead with plans to expand a Jewish settlement enclave in occupied land despite U.S. objections.The remarks by Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the ...

Row in Israel over Potter Sabbath launch

AP News - 1673 days ago
Harry Potter Book Launch on Sabbath Sparks a Row in IsraelThe figure responsible for Israel's latest religious row is a bespectacled British teenager who is gifted with magical powers, world famous and entirely fictional.The synchronized worldwide launch of "Harry Potter ...