Interior Ministry

The dramatic plan: Another 100,000 foreign workers by 2027

Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef marks the recruitment targets for workers: "The goal is to bring 330,000 foreign workers here."

Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef
Crowds at Big Fashion in Glilot during the complex's first weekend

No shopping on Shabbat? The blow landing on the Big Fashion Glilot complex

QatarEnergy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar March 2, 2026.

Explosion at Qatar's Ras Laffan gas facility kills 13, injures 66

Security forces of Syria's Interior Ministry guard the al-Omar oil field, Syria's largest by area and production, near the Euphrates River east of al-Shuhail and approximately 10 kilometers east of al-Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor Governorate on January 22, 2026 in Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

One Syrian security member killed in Islamic State suicide bombing in Raqqa


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

Despite ban, pro-BDS Dublin mayor enters Israel after name gaffe

Dublin Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha arrived in Ramallah despite a ban issued by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after the Immigration Authority received his name misspelled.

Dublin Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha

Arye Deri interrogated by police for eighth time in fraud probe

The interior minister said: I answered every question, everything is all right.

INTERIOR MINISTER Arye Deri at the Knesset

Govt. expected to approve aliyah of 1000 Ethiopians within a month

In all of 2017, only 1,308 Ethiopians were permitted to immigrate to Israel.

Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community attend a prayer service at the HaTikvah Synagogue in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, September 30, 2016.

Interior Ministry: Jewish morality is to expel infiltrators

"This is going to be a shameful, ugly move that will signify that we are a society and country where human rights do not exist," warns MK Eyal Ben-Reuven.

AN AFRICAN migrant walks with his luggage after being released from Holot detention center in the Negev in 2015.

Prominent member of halted Egyptian opposition campaign injured in attack

Pictures later posted on social media and verified by the victim's family show him with a badly battered eye and a blood-soaked bandage wrapped around his knee.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Tempers flare in Knesset hearing over deportation of Kenyan Jew

After a Jewish Kenyan man with a valid visa was deported, the Interior Ministry faced a difficult hearing in the Knesset about the decisions they made in removing the man from the country.

sraeli lawmakers attend a vote on a bill at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 6, 2017