The Interior Ministry has gotten tougher with foreign citizens and Palestinians seeking residence permits in Israel, allowing expulsions in cases that were…
The noise in recent days from the Israeli lobby against the release of Palestinian prisoners was the opposite of the limited interest the Palestinian…
The Israeli army will launch an internal investigation into two cases in which soldiers allegedly arrested Palestinian shepherds on false pretexts, the…
Last week, “an error and a mishap” courtesy of the Civil Administration took me away from the real news fit for print.…
His mother gave birth to him “under the sheep,” says Ribhi Al Battat, 60, hence his unique ability to translate the animal’s…
For a few days last month, everyone seemed to be discussing, in alarmed tones, "the 25" – the shocking number of Palestinian…
Two Canadian citizens who were arrested in Cairo on August 16 and jailed without charge since have had their detention extended for another 45…
When a few pretty young women (from Russia or Ukraine) wound up in the detention cells at Ben-Gurion Airport, the guards of…
The Israeli poet Haim Gouri walked out of the church-like hall even before the hearing for which he had come last Monday…
As the horror stories coming out of Syria and Egypt increase, why should anyone be concerned with the plight of a Palestinian…
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