Interior Ministry

Knife attacker killed outside Israel's embassy to Serbia after guard attacked, Serbian police say

"A minor, so far unidentified... shouting Allahu Akbar, attacked the member of Gendarmerie and attacked him with two knives," said Dacic.

Riot police officers stand guard in front of the TV Pink building in Belgrade, Serbia, October 26, 2026.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon.

Reservists lose municipal-tax discounts after wartime protection expires, petition says

Ramin Parsa, an Iranian dissident and pro-Israel activist living in Jerusalem, was granted a one-year temporary residency permit. Photo taken October 11, 2026.

Zionist Iranian dissident Ramin Parsa granted residency in Israel after years-long battle 

Likud MK Oren Hazan

Former MK Oren Hazan physically attacks Ariel municipality employee in attempt to disrupt meeting


500 members of the Falash Mura community set to come to Israel

The Interior Ministry and Jewish Agency officials are processing the Falash Mura immigration requests.

Members of the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia

Knesset panel tells Deri to wipe fingerprints from biometric database

Although cyber experts have said that there is no need for fingerprints to be retained as a countermeasure against fraud, Deri tried to convince the committee to keep them.

A man has his fingerprint scanned [file]

Interior Ministry suspends Jewish status of 2,200 children

One investigation questioned Jewish status of Holocaust survivor, and a Soviet refusenik

Israeli students at the Orot Etzion school in Efrat wear protective face masks as they return to school for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus, May 3, 2020

Gov't approves transferring funds to impoverished municipalities

About 78% will be given to Arab and Druze communities who were damaged by the coronavirus crisis.

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri

Municipal tax to rise by 2.58% in 2020

Musician Iyar Semel, 38, on his rooftop garden, where he grows herbs and vegetables, in Tel Aviv. Iyar planted an organic garden on his rooftop, with compost, vegetables, fruit trees and a shower, allowing him to merge his ecological lifestyle with the restraints of urban space.

Lebanon appoints first-ever female in charge of security in Arab world

Raya El Hassan was appointed as the interior minister after a nine-month government deadlock.

Lebanon's Minister of Finance Raya Haffar al-Hassan speaks during a news conference at her office in Beirut December 3, 2009. Lebanon may seek to borrow next year to help service existing debt and might also seek to reschedule some debts due in 2010 to benefit from low interest rates, Hassan said on

Fight over canceling residency of terrorist’s relatives goes to court

PIBA argued that emergency rules gave the interior minister the right to cancel residency statuses for clear and concrete security reasons.

Fadi al-Qanbar

Court orders Interior Ministry to register private Orthodox convert as Jew

The Interior Ministry has defied the spirit of a High Court of Justice ruling for 18 months by refusing to register as Jewish a woman who converted in a private, Orthodox rabbinical court.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem

Ethiopian Jew forced to pay deposit when visiting sick mother

“We feel insulted. This is humiliation, racism. Were he French or American, they wouldn’t have done it."

Ethiopian Jew

Ministry: Uganda Jews ineligible for aliya since they converted en masse

The Abayudaya community in Uganda began adopting Jewish religious practices at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ugandan Rabbi Harun Kintu Moses conducts a Hebrew language lesson at Hadassah School, a Jewish community institute in Mbale along the slopes of Mt.Elgon some 224km (139Mmiles) east of Uganda's capital Kampala, Uganda, February 10,2005