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


Population Authority informs court it won’t register Utah marriages

500 Israelis have married through Utah’s online civil marriage service, but former Interior Minister Arye Deri froze registration of such marriages.

Ayelet Shaked

Population Authority refuses to register online Utah civil marriages

500 Israeli couples have married in online ceremonies through the US state of Utah, but registration of those marriages was stopped by former minister Aryeh Deri.

Ayelet Shaked at a Knesset press conference.

Jewish scientist gets Israeli citizenship after two years

Prof. Ruth Katz, a professor of cytopathology at Sheba Medical Center, faced numerous bureaucratic obstacles in her quest for Israeli citizenship

Prof. Ruth Katz shows off her brand new Israeli citizen ID having obtained it on Wednesday after a two year struggle with the Interior Ministry.

High Court withdraws emerging communities aliyah petition

Judge: Case not suitable to determine principle

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Granting David Ben Moshe temporary residence is unneeded litmus test

Ben Moshe is no Meyer Lansky. He’s just an ordinary man who has turned his life around and wants to lead an ordinary life in Israel with his Israeli wife and Israeli daughter.

David Ben Moshe together with his wife and child

Israel to deport 100 Black Hebrews to the US within 2 months - report

Their community numbers around 5,000, and while they have integrated reasonably well in Dimona, they live in limbo because their future in Israel remains uncertain.

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Parents of pregnant women, brides, others denied entry to Israel

First-degree family members of Israeli citizens, many olim, are being denied entry to Israel.

A view of the empty departure hall at Ben-Gurion Airport in November.

Israel begins reopening some beaches damaged by ecological disaster

Regarding the rest of the country's beaches, the statement said that cleaning operations are still underway, and that the public should beware of going to polluted beaches.

SOLDIERS CLEAN tar off Palmahim beach on Monday, following an offshore oil spill that drenched most of the Israeli coastline.

Colel Chabad combats COVID-induced food insecurity for families

Some 200,000 Israeli families will be assisted through this program, which will include cards with which to purchase food, in addition to food boxes.

The envelope containing the 'food debit cards' that families in need will receive to address the economic crisis they have been dealing with due to the coronavirus pandemic, February 22, 2021.

Jewish leaders condemn Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jews from immigrating

The ultimate ruling in his case could have far-ranging ramifications for Jews living outside of Israel.

Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Ugandaz