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


Interior Minister Shaked approves transfer of Druze lands jurisdiction

The committee wanted to centralize power in order to "improve the level of services provided to residents."

 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked

COVID-19: Green Pass narrowed to large events starting next week

Hebrew University researchers say peak has passed * Home Front Command limits PCR testing availability

 Israel's Green Pass validity was extended until Thursday on Sunday after the Health Ministry 'traffic light' website crashed, October 3, 2021.

A Jewish convert’s hunger strike for Israeli citizenship

David Ben Moshe is Orthodox, married to an Israeli, and a father of two, but that is not enough for Israel's Interior Ministry. So he protested.

 David Ben Moshe hunger strike.

David Ben Moshe: A Hunger Strike for Israeli citizenship

I love Israel and will always defend it, but the treatment that I have received since applying for citizenship, my automatic right as a Jew, is an embarrassment.

 David Ben Moshe

A look at the PIBA's 'culture of suspicion and hostility'

INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Inside the problems at the Population and Immigration Authority of the Interior Ministry.

 THE POPULATION and Immigration Authority office in Jerusalem yesterday.

Interior Ministry stops foreign entry permit applications till after Sukkot

The application process through consulates will remain open, but applications through the Population and Immigration Authority will stop due to closure of government offices over the holiday.

Israelis at Ben-Gurion Airport as coronavirus cases increase, August 5, 2021.

We must ease the process with entry permits - editorial

It is time for Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked to step up and make sure that the permits are processed at a faster pace. 

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked is seen speaking at the Knesset, on July 5, 2021.

Thousands of entry requests to Israel by Jewish tourists remain unanswered

Many foreign citizens with relatives in Israel want to come for High Holy Days but are in limbo as applications are unanswered, or answered only at the last moment

 Travellers wear protective face masks at Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, as Israel restricts air travel more, on August 05, 2021.

Antisemitism decreases while other hate crimes rise in Spain - report

In Spain. forms of discrimination that have decreased alongside antisemitism are racism, ideology, and gender identity.

President Reuven Rivlin arrives in Spain to visit the King of Spain, on November 5, 2017.

Defense officials meet Gaza border communities, discuss evacuation plans

The Defense Ministry's National Emergency Management Authority met with municipal heads in order to gain input into a new emergency evacuation plan, based on lessons learned from recent Gaza fighting

Military and government representatives meet with Gaza-area municipality heads to discuss emergency evacuation plans