Mizrahi

High Court of Justice strikes down police ID-check procedures due to racial profiling

The ruling cancels two sections of police procedure: Requiring ID based on generalized “concern” of an offense, and verifying a person’s details on the police computer without reasonable suspicion.

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
 Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

Bereaved parents call on Ben-Gurion University to dismiss prof. who called IDF soldiers 'murderers'

 Jewish girls at a school performance in Benghazi, Lybia.

Zionism beyond Europe: Restoring the Mizrahi narrative in Jewish education - opinion

Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, shakes the hand of a cab driver while campaigning in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood during early voting, in New York City, U.S., October 27, 2025

Jews from the Middle East know Mamdani is a threat to Israel – opinion


High Court's Deri decision: Israel's domestic crisis just got more toxic - analysis

The High Court of Justice's decision pulled a scab off a deep societal wound that has never healed, and it's a wound that helps explain Shas' strength and longevity.

 Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu seen after a meeting with Shas head Aryeh Deri outside his home in Jerusalem on January 18, 2023

'Nobody cares about LGBTQ+ people' - Smotrich in surfaced recordings

In the conversation, Smotrich said that his position against the LGBTQ+ community does not hurt him politically because his voters don't care.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses a meeting of his Knesset faction on Monday.

Amsalem accuses Netanyahu of discriminating against mizrahim

Amsalem was not offered either of the positions he demanded from Netanyahu, Justice Minister or Knesset speaker.

 MK Dudi Amsalem reacts during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2022.

Ofra Haza named one of top 200 singers of all time by Rolling Stone

Haza’s life was a rags-to-riches story in which she soared high, helped change the Israeli music industry’s perception of Mizrahi music, had a huge international career and died tragically young.

 File photo of Israeli singer Ofra Haza, with her manager Bezalal Aloni.

The role of ethnicity in Israel after 75 years - opinion

Only about 5% of Israelis rate ethnic cleavage as the main source of tension in Israel - stronger by far are tensions between Arabs and Jews or Right and Left.

 THE GROOM breaks a glass, the traditional conclusion of a Jewish wedding ceremony. We have witnessed a narrowing of ethnic gaps and greater intermingling of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, perhaps most significantly in ethnic intermarriage, says the writer.

The creepiness of anti-Israel activists’ cultural appropriation claims - opinion

This form of conjecture surpasses the age-old antisemitism and is a type of hate in its own class. It is an effort to deny the history of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews.

 TO MAKE THE claim that any food, be it hummus, falafel or kubbeh, is inherently one culture or another is doing a disservice to the generations who have honed and preserved those recipes.

Israeli-Moroccan ties celebrated in Denmark

Ambassador of Israel, David Akov, and the Ambassador of Morocco, Khadija Rouissi, hosted a joint, high-profile event this March to mark the first anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords.

L to R: Ambassador of Israel David Akov, Ambassador of Morocco Khadija Rouissi and Livnat Ben-Hamou and Deputy Ambassador Davy Antebi

Israel to measure inequality between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews with new statistics

It will become possible to learn far more than is currently known about gaps in wealth, education and other factors between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews. 

ARE THEY Ashkenazi or Mizrahi?

Israel's real divide is in the inequality of Arab citizens - opinion

Many believe Israel is divided between Jews and Arabs or politics, but it isn't.

 NEW FRENCH olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2017. The writer asks: ‘How is it legitimate for a Jewish new immigrant who just arrived from Ukraine or France to be more Israeli than a Palestinian Arab citizen who has been living on this land for centuries?’

Taiseer Elias: Israel's integrated musician

When not teaching, Elias, 62, organizes small ensembles, playing music that is very attached to Arab traditions but which is also open to innovations, often of his own creations.

 Taiseer Elias