U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday evening criticized the conduct of the Reform Movement in recent days, following the government’s decision to freeze the plan to establish a designated mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall.
Mexico City – The Mexican attorney general’s office said it would ask the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for help probing allegations that the government spied on journalists and activists.
Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in North America, strongly criticizes the cancellation of the Western Wall plan and the new conversion law.
According to Globes, which got hold of a draft circular sent out recently by the Bank of Israel, said draft recommends several ways in which a provident fund (gemach, Gmilut Chessed in Hebrew) can be exempt from reporting to the US tax authorities.
Jerusalem – The Yemenite Children Affair, the claim that Yemenite children were systematically abducted and taken for adoption by European Jewish (Ashkenazi) families without the biological family’s consent in the state’s early days, seemed to have gained momentum on Tuesday evening in Jerusalem.
Former Israeli Police Maj.- Gen. Arieh Amit said Thursday that security forces should have “no mercy” on ultra-Orthodox protestors involved in civil unrest and attacking Israeli soldiers.
Nearly a year after the Israel Tax Authority sought it, fallen tycoon Eliezer Fishman on Wednesday was formally declared bankrupt by the Tel Aviv District Court.
Jerusalem – When the Islamic State claimed credit for an attack on Israeli soil for the first time Friday and vowed to strike again, the response here was not fear but incredulity.
The shares of Bezeq, the nation’s largest telecommunications operator, declined in Tel Aviv on Tuesday after investigators raided its offices and pulled in its controlling shareholder for questioning.
An Israeli company’s software has been used to infiltrate mobile devices held by human rights lawyers, journalists and activists fighting government corruption in Mexico, according to a report published in the New York Times on Monday.